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A new selection of works by Britain's foremost prose satirist Easing poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical "solution" suggested by Jonathan Swift in his essay "A Modest Proposal" (1729). Here Swift unleashes the full power of his ironic armory and corrosive wit, striking his targets-the ruling class and avaricious landlords-with deadly pre...(展开全部)

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide… Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a...(展开全部)

It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to every individual, rich or poor, active or inactive, has been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. For a long time, it was hardly noticed and never taken seriously. To...(展开全部)

It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to every individual, rich or poor, active or inactive, has been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. For a long time, it was hardly noticed and never taken seriously. To...(展开全部)

作者介绍：贝娅特丽丝• 阿勒玛尼娅(Beatrice Alemagna)，1973年出生于意大利博洛尼亚。她在1996年获得法国未来新锐奖，之后移居巴黎。当时年仅二十四岁的阿勒玛尼娅离开家乡，一个人来到巴黎，而这座城市也热情地接纳她。她希望能写一个故事献给这座城市，于是，《一只狮子在巴黎》诞生了。此书出版后，随即获得法国Rueil－Malmaison童书插画奖、意大利博洛尼亚书展最佳童书奖选书推荐，并入围法国巴欧巴童书奖。她的其他作品有《我是谁？我的爱》、《克拉拉的宝藏》等。 译者介绍：许钧，1954年生，浙江龙游人。现任南京大学研究生院常务副院长、教授、博士生导师，中国翻译协会常务副会长。著名法语文化专家、翻译家。其译著《追忆似水年华》（卷四）、《不能承受的生命之轻》、《名士风流》、《邦斯舅舅》、《中国之欧洲》（上下卷）、《诉讼笔录》等均在国内引起...(展开全部)

The publication of Paris marks the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book. Having left Switzerland in 1924, this 1951 trip to France was only Frank's second return to Europe after he had settled in New York City in 1947, and some of the images he made during that visit h...(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)