The Penguin History of the World
J. M. Roberts
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The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World For generations of readers The Penguin History
Ulysses
James Joyce
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Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel dea ls with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now
Synaptic Self
Joseph LeDoux
评分 9.2分
Amazon.com A middle-aged neuroscientist walking down Bourbon Street spots a T-shirt that reads, "I don't know, so maybe I'm not." This stimulus zooms from eyes to brain, neuron by neuron,
The Arthashastra
Kautilya
Kautilya: The Arthashastra, published in 2000 by Penguin Classics is the English edition of the classic treatise on classical economics and political science by the ancient Indian philosopher Kauti
The House of Rothschild
Niall Ferguson
评分 8.7分
The first authoritative and compulsively readable history of the rise of this legendary banking dynasty In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remark- able, elusive Rothschild
A People's Tragedy
Orlando Figes
评分 9.6分
Amazon.com Review Written in a narrative style that captures both the scope and detail of the Russian revolution, Orlando Figes's history is certain to become one of the most importa
Daisy Miller
Henry James
评分 7.6分
Famous novella chronicles a young American girl’s willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, James contrasts American customs and values wit
The Puzzle Palace
James Bamford
Describes and assesses the activities of the National Security Agency, the nation's most secret government agency--established in secrecy, many times larger than the CIA, and in control of a huge b
Look Back in Anger
John Osborne
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Play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an "angry young man" was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected
Design of Cities
Edmund N. Bacon
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Collapse
Jared Diamond
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Book Description In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important policy debate of th
The Basque History of the World
Mark Kurlansky
Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction-they are Europe's oldest nation without ever having been
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
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Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. 约翰·斯坦贝克 (John Steinbeck 1902-1
The Tyranny of Merit
Michael J. Sandel
评分 8.8分
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequali
Firefighting
Ben S. Bernanke
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From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we
Adèle
Leila Slimani
From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris She wa
Dancing Bears
Witold Szablowski
作者簡介 維特多．沙博爾夫斯基Witold Szabłowski 一個天生說故事的人，波蘭最優秀的報導文學作家之一。畢業於華沙大學新聞系與政治學系。在業內素以簡潔靈動的語言運用而聞名。對於土耳其的政治、婦女及犯罪議題有深入研究，他對於土耳其「榮譽殺人」的報導〈姐妹，這是出於愛〉曾獲得國際特赦組織的榮譽推薦，而他的土耳其長篇報導《來自杏城的刺客
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
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巴塞尔·范德考克（Bessel van der Kolk） 世界知名心理创伤治疗大师，位于布鲁克林的创伤中心的创始人和医疗主管。他也是波士顿大学医学院的精神科教授、国家创伤综合征治疗联盟（National Complex Trauma Treatment Network）的主任。他经常在世界各地教学，主要在波士顿工作和生活。 译者简介
A History of Reading
Alberto Manguel
Reading, Manguel tells us, is almost as essential to our existence as breathing. How did this come to be, and how has reading shaped our minds and our cultures? These are big, complex questions, bu
Going Solo
Eric Klinenberg
Him With His Foot in His Mouth
Saul Bellow
We were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop
Reading in the Brain
Stanislas Dehaene
评分 7.8分
"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work." -Oliver Sacks, M.D. The act of readi
The Element
Ken Robinson
评分 7.9分
A breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement from one of the world's leading thinkers on creativity and self-fulfillment. The Element is the point at which nat
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Susan Sontag
"Against Interpretation" was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of reader
Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin
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"The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management" ( Los Angeles Times (on the first edition)) In an age of great economic uncertainty when everyone is
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
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The only thing wrong with this readable, funny memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure and balance is that it seems so much like a Jennifer Anisto
Fateful Choices
Ian Kershaw
The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw’s analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzli
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girl-friend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pr
Drawing Down the Moon
Margot Adler
Now fully revised—the classic study of Neo-Paganism Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of
The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil
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For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines , he argue
