Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century", and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings' leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive mo...(展开全部)

作者簡介 布魯斯．康明思（Bruce Cumings） 芝加哥大學歷史系教授，主要研究領域為朝鮮半島現代史、二十世紀國際關係史、美國和東亞關係、美國對外關係、東亞的政治經濟等，是研究東亞冷戰與韓國發展的重要研究者。曾多次前往南北韓，親身經歷過韓國的街頭運動，他的著作也在社會運動狂潮裡，以地下形式廣為流傳。 第一部著作The Origins of the Korean War，即獲得費正清獎，以及Quincy Wright Book Award（對國際研究有貢獻者）。另著有North Korea: Another Country、Dominion from Sea to Sea、《朝鮮戰爭》（左岸）等書。 一九九九年獲選為美國文理科學院院士，二〇〇七年獲得金大中獎，亦榮獲福特基金會、麥克阿瑟基金會等獎助。近年，以學者身分參與濟州島的「四・三事件」轉型正...(展开全部)

作者簡介 布魯斯．康明思（Bruce Cumings） 芝加哥大學歷史系教授，主要研究領域為朝鮮半島現代史、二十世紀國際關係史、美國和東亞關係、美國對外關係、東亞的政治經濟等，是研究東亞冷戰與韓國發展的重要研究者。曾多次前往南北韓，親身經歷過韓國的街頭運動，他的著作也在社會運動狂潮裡，以地下形式廣為流傳。 第一部著作The Origins of the Korean War，即獲得費正清獎，以及Quincy Wright Book Award（對國際研究有貢獻者）。另著有North Korea: Another Country、Dominion from Sea to Sea、《朝鮮戰爭》（左岸）等書。 一九九九年獲選為美國文理科學院院士，二〇〇七年獲得金大中獎，亦榮獲福特基金會、麥克阿瑟基金會等獎助。近年，以學者身分參與濟州島的「四・三事件」轉型正...(展开全部)

Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century", and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings' leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive mo...(展开全部)

One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the pe...(展开全部)

This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. Whe...(展开全部)

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago conn...(展开全部)

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connect...(展开全部)

Lorraine Hansberry, (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died January 12, 1965, New York, New York), American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.

Amazon.com In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her. She revels in the sunlight and the color, the long view of her valley, the warm homey architecture, the languor of the slow paced days, the vigor of working her...(展开全部)