James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited back ten years later to join in the country's independence celebrations. As he witnesses the factio
Bob Woodward Peril-危机
作者:Bob Woodward
书名:Peril《危机》
简介:The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous peri
书名:Peril《危机》
简介:The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous peri
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made-陨落之后:在我们造成的世界里身为美国人
作者:Ben Rhodes
书名:After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made《陨落之后:在我们造成的世界里身为美国人》
简介:Why is democracy so threatened in A
书名:After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made《陨落之后:在我们造成的世界里身为美国人》
简介:Why is democracy so threatened in A
Patricia Brennan Demuth What Is the Constitution-什么是宪法
We the people at Who HQ bring readers the full story--arguments and all--of how the United States Constitution came into being.
Signed on September 17, 1787--four years after the American War for Independence--the Constitution laid out the supreme law
Signed on September 17, 1787--four years after the American War for Independence--the Constitution laid out the supreme law
Patricia Brennan Demuth Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg-谁是露丝·贝德·金斯伯格
You've probably seen her on t-shirts, mugs, and even tattoos, well, now that famous face graces the cover of our latest Who Is? title.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is famous for her stylish collars (called jabots) and her commanding dissents. This
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is famous for her stylish collars (called jabots) and her commanding dissents. This
Megan Stine Who Is Michelle Obama-谁是米歇尔·奥巴马
Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as they say, is history.
It is undeniable that President
It is undeniable that President
Roberta Edwards Who Is Barack Obama-谁是巴拉克·奥巴马
As the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president.
With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography is perfect for primary graders looking for a longer, fuller life story than is found in the aut
With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography is perfect for primary graders looking for a longer, fuller life story than is found in the aut
Julian Barnes The Porcupine-豪猪
In his latest novel, Julian Barnes, author of Talking It Over and A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, trains his laser-bright prose on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.
Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader, is placed on trial for
Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader, is placed on trial for
Julian Barnes Letters from London-来自伦敦的信件
With brilliant wit, idiosyncratic intelligence, and a bold grasp of intricate political realities, the celebrated author of Flaubert's Parrot turns his satiric glance homeward to England, in a sparkling collection of essays that illustrates the infin
John Freeman Dictionary of the Undoing-解构词典
For John Freeman—literary critic, essayist, editor, poet, “one of the preeminent book people of our time” (Dave Eggers)—it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action wa
Tell me how it ends: an essay in 40 questions-告诉我它是如何结束的
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists-我们都应该是女权主义者
What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of American
Karen Tei Yamashita 1968: Eye Hotel-1968年:眼睛酒店
"Eye Hotel" is the first novella of I Hotel, a National Book Award finalist and epic of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Yamashita’s cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and prov
José Saramago The Notebook-笔记本
Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of José Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, a
Nadia Murad The Last Girl-最后一个女孩
作者:Nadia Murad
书名:The Last Girl《最后一个女孩》
简介:In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultim
书名:The Last Girl《最后一个女孩》
简介:In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultim
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty-疼痛帝国
作者:Patrick Radden Keefe
书名:Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty《疼痛帝国》
简介:The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of
书名:Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty《疼痛帝国》
简介:The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of
Francis Fukuyama Trust: The social virtues and the creation of prosperity-信任:社会美德与繁荣的创造
In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism. In Trust, a penetrating assessm
Francis Fukuyama Trust: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order-信任:人性与社会秩序重构
In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism. In Trust, a penetrating assessm
The Great Disruption: Human nature and the reconstitution of social order
In the past thirty years, the United States has undergone a profound transformation in its social structure: Crime has increased, trust has declined, families have broken down, and individualism has triumphed over community. Has the Great Disruption of re
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century-国家建设
Francis Fukuyama famously predicted the end of history with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states.The end of history was never an automatic proc
Francis Fukuyama Social Capital and Civil Society-社会资本与公民社会
Social capital is important to the efficient functioning of modern economies and is the sine qua non of stable liberal democracy. It constitutes the cultural component of modern societies, which in other respects have been organized since the Enlightenmen
Francis Fukuyama Political order in changing societes-社会变迁中的政治秩序
This now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is a major and enduring contribution to modern political analysis. In a new Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington’s achievement, examining the co
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democrac
The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution(Political Order #1)
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution-我们的后人类未来
A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of "the end of history," Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fuku