This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes of the 1950s, the hopes of the Prague Spring in 1968, the resistance of Charter 77 and the triumph of the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Now, as his country faces further division in the 1990s, Klima in...(展开全部)

The year is 1815 and Captain Hugh Austen of the Grenadier Guards is attending a ball before he leads his troops to face Napoleon at Waterloo. A young woman asks his help and the vanishes, leaving only a miniature portrait of herself. The woman is connected with a Satanic Man in Black who is rumored to practice Unhallowed Arts. Soon, Austen discovers that the mysterious woman wa...(展开全部)

The year is 1815 and Captain Hugh Austen of the Grenadier Guards is attending a ball before he leads his troops to face Napoleon at Waterloo. A young woman asks his help and the vanishes, leaving only a miniature portrait of herself. The woman is connected with a Satanic Man in Black who is rumored to practice Unhallowed Arts. Soon, Austen discovers that the mysterious woman wa...(展开全部)

"Our attempt at a new understanding of the trial of Socrates will also become a fresh look at classical antiquity. It is our yesterday and we cannot understand ourselves without it." Thus Izzy Stone approaches the death of a secular saint and the decline of democracy in Athens four centuries before Christ. Stone brings to his penetrating documentation of the missing prosecution...(展开全部)

鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）生于美国纽约，5岁时跟随家人移居伦敦，先后就读于伊顿公学和牛津大学，与现任保守党领袖戴维·卡梅伦同为布灵顿俱乐部会员。 在2001年成为英国国会保守党籍议员之前，约翰逊曾在《泰晤士报》、《每日电讯报》和《旁观者》杂志从事实习生、记者与主编等工作，专门撰写讽刺性的政论，并出版了7本书。之后，他成为保守党副主席，任保守党“影子内阁”教育大臣。2008年5月，他当选伦敦为市长，2012年5月又获得新的四年任期。他被认为是下一届英国首相的最富有实力的竞争者。 约翰逊育有四个孩子，喜欢骑自行车、写作、画画和打网球。他极富喜剧天才，其玩笑和搞怪形象让他在英国乃至世界许多国家和地区家喻户晓，BBC的搞笑谈话节目“我有没有给你新闻”因此而请他客串主持人，获得了英国电视奖的提名。他也因不拘小节的仪表和行为在2008年北京奥运...(展开全部)

鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）生于美国纽约，5岁时跟随家人移居伦敦，先后就读于伊顿公学和牛津大学，与现任保守党领袖戴维·卡梅伦同为布灵顿俱乐部会员。 在2001年成为英国国会保守党籍议员之前，约翰逊曾在《泰晤士报》、《每日电讯报》和《旁观者》杂志从事实习生、记者与主编等工作，专门撰写讽刺性的政论，并出版了7本书。之后，他成为保守党副主席，任保守党“影子内阁”教育大臣。2008年5月，他当选伦敦为市长，2012年5月又获得新的四年任期。他被认为是下一届英国首相的最富有实力的竞争者。 约翰逊育有四个孩子，喜欢骑自行车、写作、画画和打网球。他极富喜剧天才，其玩笑和搞怪形象让他在英国乃至世界许多国家和地区家喻户晓，BBC的搞笑谈话节目“我有没有给你新闻”因此而请他客串主持人，获得了英国电视奖的提名。他也因不拘小节的仪表和行为在2008年北京奥运...(展开全部)

The adversary system of trial, the defining feature of the Anglo-American criminal procedure developed late in English legal history. For centuries, defendants were forbidden to have counsel, and lawyers seldom appeared for the prosecution either. Trial was meant to be an occasion for the defendant to answer the charges in person. The transformation from lawyer-free to lawyer-d...(展开全部)

The lawyer-dominated adversary system of criminal trial, which now typifies practice in Anglo-American legal systems, developed in England in the eighteenth century. Using hitherto unexplored sources from London's Old Bailey Court, Professor Langbein shows how and why lawyers were able to capture the trial, and he supplies a path-breaking account of the formation of the law of ...(展开全部)

From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries. Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art", who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his cast...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·希伯特（Christopher Hibbert，1924—2008），出生于英国莱斯特郡，毕业于牛津大学拉德利和奥里尔学院。二战期间他在伦敦爱尔兰步枪团任步兵军官，曾两次负伤，并于1945年获得军功十字勋章。普拉姆教授（J. H. Plumb）称其为“能力极高的作家”，《新政治家》称其为“传记作者中的明珠”。他是一位久负盛名的通俗历史学家。 其作品以治学严谨著称，包括《拉格伦王的灭亡》（The Destruction of Lord Raglan，荣获1962年海涅曼文学奖）、《温莎宫廷》（The Court at Windsor）、《查尔斯·狄更斯成名之路》（The Making of Charles Dickens）、《猛龙觉醒：1793—1911年的中国与西方》（The Dragon Wakes: China and the Wes...(展开全部)