Books: Beginning of the end Richard Evans praises a masterly history of the growth of Nazi anti-SemitismRICHARD EVANS
From the beginning to the end of the story, Tom can take other children into doing anything because no one really shares the experience he has read about in books. 他在杰克逊的海岛设法说服粗麻布和乔采取冒险与他,因为看起来很新颖他们不可能抵抗有尝试。
One Second After by William Fortchen Sometime like to relax with a good old fashioned end of the world post-apocalyptic novel. Enter One Second After. This is a very reality based story of what happens when a nuclear bomb is ignited in the atmosphere over the US thus resulting in a mass...
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson Read expert recommendations “It’s about the period of American history between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the beginning of the American Civil War. (Note that in the UK, the...
读大书(great books)哈佛并不是最典型。最典型的是芝加哥大学,还有一些很小的没有研究生院的学院。 www.360doc.com|基于36个网页 3. 伟大的书 “伟大的书”(great books)对于人类具有普遍的文化教育作用,这至今仍然是美国大学人文教育奉行的观念原则。这一观念最经典 … ...
In non-fiction, Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell is the Wellcome Book Prize-winning author’s second book after To Be a Machine. Due in April, it will explore how we get to grips with the future and the possible end of the world in an age of anxiety. Also due in April...
I knew my year was turbulent as a reader, but seeing the stats on StoryGraph made me laugh/cry. It was like looking at a heart monitor––roughly every 6 weeks had a spike in reading 2-4 books, followed by a 4- to 6-week dip in no reading at all. I “participated” (using th...
The door is always closed, yet sounds from it can be heard in the hallway. With summer coming to an end and school starting, the girl realizes that soon she’ll be going to the noisy class. What will school be like now? In After the Fall by Dan Santat, Humpty Dumpty has to come ...
June was a non-fiction month beginning with A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm which is an account of the author’s time working as a runner and waiter in a Parisian restaurant. Chisholm moved to Paris in 2012 at the age of 24 to live with...
the blunders the mosteminentof them have made, and you who read are the final judge of the value to you of the book you are reading. This, of course, applies to the books I am going to recommend to your attention. We are none of us exactly like everyone else, only rather like, ...