This book has a universal theme, the positive powers and disruptive effects of sexuality and desire. Despite the moral debate, Galsworthy's novel has enormous narrative strength which sweeps the listener along from start to finish.

In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy -- a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his family and friends. This brilliant young man, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard How can it be? A literary sensation and a bestselle...(展开全部)

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER From the author of the "original, politically daring and passionately written" (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in a house bustling with A T...(展开全部)

In this "crime puzzle of the first order" (New York Times), an ordinary flight to London turns extraordinary when a female passenger is shot to death with a venom-tipped dart. Even more bizarre is that the murder went unnoticed by everyone on board-- including the brilliant Hercule Poirot.

From Seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was t...(展开全部)

约翰·杜海姆·彼得斯（John Durham Peters），美国当代著名的媒介史学家、传播理论家和传播哲学家，国际传播学会（ICA）会士，有“美国传播学界的稀有动物”之称，具有崇高声望。彼得斯为斯坦福大学传播学博士（1986），曾长期执教于艾奥瓦大学（1986-2016），任克雷格·贝尔德讲席教授，现为耶鲁大学英语、电影和媒介研究教授。著有《对空言说：传播的观念史》（1999）、《取悦深渊：自由言说与自由传统》（2005）、《奇云：媒介即存有》（2015）、《撒播知识：历史中的信息、图像和真理》（2020）。

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we often think of media as environments, the reve...(展开全部)

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