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恺撒与基督_世界文明史
本卷为《世界文明史》第3卷——第1卷为《东方的 遗产》，第2卷为《希腊的生活》——不过自成独立单元。如果时局与健康许可，第4卷《信仰的时代》可望于1950年完成。... -
大失败--二十世纪共产主义的兴亡
兹比格涅夫·布热津斯基出生于波兰华沙，1938年随父到加拿大，1950年来美国哈佛大学深造，1953年获哲学博士学位，留哈佛大学国际问题研究中心工作，1958年加入美国籍。1961年成为肯尼迪总统的主要外交顾问之一。1962年任国务院顾同和兰得公司顾问。1977—1981年任卡特总统的国家安全事务助理。此后，专注于研究工作，不断发表文章和著作，为美国当权者出... -
Who Killed Palomino Molero_ - Mario Vargas Llosa
SUMMARY: This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer L... -
Trace Memory - David Llewellyn
SUMMARY: Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 1950: A mysterious crate is brought into the docks on a Scandinavian cargo ship, the Kungssangen. Its destination: The Torchwood Institute. As the crat... -
The Penguin Book of French Poet - Various
The period 1820-1950, from Lamartine to Char, is a particularly rich field for students and lovers of poetry. While this anthology contains, of course, generous selections from the... -
The Kill - Emile Zola; Arthur Goldhammer
Here is a true publishing event--the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction's giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and... -
The Gift - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklySet in the 1950s, Steel's account of a family coming to terms with a child's death spent 12 weeks on PW's bestseller list. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Inform... -
The Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the... -
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
Review"Sometimes you just need a bit of soft-core sci-fi, and Wyndham’s 1950’s classic, newly back in print, fully delivers." --_Thicket Magazine_ "It is quite simply a page-tu... -
The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--wi...