In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. Along the way readers w...(展开全部)

In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. Along the way readers w...(展开全部)

Two minor characters from "Hamlet" offer a novel view of the melancholy Dane. Review “This is a most remarkable play. Very funny. Very brilliant. Very chilling.” –The New York Times “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead [is] verbally dazzling…the most exciting, witty intellectual treat imaginable.” –Edith Oliver, The New Yorker

In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by unlearned classes in the late imperial period (15th century), best called 'chantefables', appearing at the beginning of a profound historical shift which resulted in a broadening of the uses of writing and printing in China. These texts a...(展开全部)

Book Description In New York, Denver, Paris and Berlin, four people have died in what appear to be random accidents When two women – widows of the dead – find themselves under merciless attack, their fear and confusion help them to form an unlikely alliance. But why are they being targeted? Is there a connection to their husbands’ mysterious deaths? Meanwhile, the Chief E...(展开全部)

Book Description In New York, Denver, Paris and Berlin, four people have died in what appear to be random accidents When two women – widows of the dead – find themselves under merciless attack, their fear and confusion help them to form an unlikely alliance. But why are they being targeted? Is there a connection to their husbands’ mysterious deaths? Meanwhile, the Chief E...(展开全部)

山前山后各有哀愁，有风无风都不自由。一切都是命运， 一切都是烟云， 一切都是没有结局的开始， 一切都是稍纵即逝的追寻。

山前山后各有哀愁，有风无风都不自由。一切都是命运， 一切都是烟云， 一切都是没有结局的开始， 一切都是稍纵即逝的追寻。

Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most exciting and active branches of current research. In conference after conference the view is expressed that cosmology today is where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen. Also gravitational wave detectors, presently under construction or in the testing phase, promise...(展开全部)