New York City boasts one of the most famous skylines in the world, and the Empire State Building is undeniably the focal point of this incredible view. At 102 stories, the structure was no small feat. In fact, its construction coincided with the onset of
Megan Stine Where Is the White House?(Where is...?)-白宫在哪里?
It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so.
Borglum faced a lot of opposition and pr
Borglum faced a lot of opposition and pr
True Kelley Where Is Mount Rushmore?(Where is...?)-拉什莫尔山在哪里?
It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so.
Borglum faced a lot of opposition and pr
Borglum faced a lot of opposition and pr
Jim O'Connor Where Is the Grand Canyon?(Where is...?)-大峡谷在哪里?
There are canyons all over the planet, and the Grand Canyon in Arizona is not the biggest. Yet because of the spectacular colors in the rock layers and fascinating formations of boulders, buttes, and mesas, it is known as one of the Seven Natural Wonders
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order-持久战
作者:Rush Doshi
书名:The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order《持久战:中国取代美国主导秩序的大战略》
简介:For more than a century, no
书名:The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order《持久战:中国取代美国主导秩序的大战略》
简介:For more than a century, no
Pablo Neruda Spain in Our Hearts-我们心中的西班牙
In 1936, Pablo Neruda was Chile's consul in Madrid, and so horrified by the civil war and the murder of his friend, Federico Garcia Lorca, that he started writing what became his most politically passionate series of poems, Spain in Our Hearts. The c
Heinrich Böll The Train Was on Time-火车准点
Heinrich Böll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the battle on the Eastern front. Trapped, he knows that Hitler has already lost the
Patrick White The Hanging Garden-空中花园
A previously unpublished novel from the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl
Patrick White The Twyborn Affair-特伯恩事件
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. His search for identity, self-affirmation and love takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.
Patrick White A Fringe of Leaves-树叶裙
Set in Australia in the 1840s, A FRINGE OF LEAVES combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken priso
Patrick White Riders in the Chariot-战车上的骑手
Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experi
Patrick White Voss-沃斯
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE
Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only on a few occasions, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelmin
Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only on a few occasions, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelmin
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
作者:Bill Bryson
书名:Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
简介:Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with co
书名:Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
简介:Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with co
Saul Bellow Letters-信件
A never-before-published collection of letters-an intimate self- portrait as well as the portrait of a century.
Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twent
Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twent
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune-索尔·贝娄的一生
For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. The Life of Saul Bellow, by the literary scholar and
Allan Bloom The Closing of the American Mind-美国人思想的终结
The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/politi
Czesław Miłosz The Captive Mind-被禁锢的头脑
The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and its plot device of Murti-Bing pills, which are used as a metaphor for dialectical materialism, but also for the deadening of the intellect caused by co
Elias Canetti Crowds and Power-人群与权力
Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys an
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel-总理:安吉拉·默克尔的非凡历程
作者:Kati Marton
书名:The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel《总理:安吉拉·默克尔的非凡历程》
简介:The definitive biography of German Chanc
书名:The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel《总理:安吉拉·默克尔的非凡历程》
简介:The definitive biography of German Chanc
Gabriel García Márquez News of a Kidnapping-绑架新闻
THIS ASTONISHING BOOK by the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian man and women--all journalists but one--by the Medellín drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated abductions were Escobar's
Gabriel García Márquez The General in His Labyrinth-迷宫里的将军
Gabriel García Márquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent.
Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western h
Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western h
Gabriel García Márquez Of Love and Other Demons-爱和其他恶魔
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport, is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles F
Gerald Martin Gabriel García Márquez: A Life-加布里埃尔·加西亚·马奎兹:生活
In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez.
Martin chronicles
Martin chronicles
Gabriel García Márquez The Scandal of the Century and Other Writings-世纪丑闻和其他著作
From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s–work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of