Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry--a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exit...(展开全部)

Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry--a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exit...(展开全部)

Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he is catapulte...(展开全部)

W. E. B. 杜波依斯，20世纪上半叶最有影响的黑人知识分子，泛非运动创始人。出生于美国马萨诸塞州，是第一个获得哈佛大学博士学位的非裔美国人。他毕生研究美国和非洲的历史和社会，留下众多名作。1961年加入共产党，同年迁居加纳。 李冠杰，博士，上海外国语大学上海全球治理与区域国别研究院英国研究中心智库研究员，研究领域为当代英国政治、英国政治思想史，专著有《危险的分权》，译著有《识字的用途》《工业革命（1760—1830）》等。

Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from India to the United States and sees how each deals with the challeng...(展开全部)

The metropolis of the future — as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 — was both generous and prophetic in vision. Largely an illustrated essay on the modern city and its future, Ferriss' book incorporated his philosophy of architecture. Includes powerful illustrations of towering structures, personal space, wide avenues, and rooftop parks. 59 illustrations.

This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of "Beginnings" and the controversial "Orientalism," Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, for example, and by such influences as Marxism, structuralism, linguistic...(展开全部)

萨义德(1935-2003)，当今世界极具影响力的文学与文化批评家之一。出生于耶路撒冷，在英国占领期间就读于埃及开罗的西方学校，接受英式和美式教育，1950年代赴美就学，获哈佛大学博士学位，1963年起任教于哥伦比亚大学，讲授英国文学与比较文学。代表作有：《开始：意图与方法》、《世界·文本·批评家》、《东方学》、《文化与帝国主义》、《知识分子论》、《巴勒斯坦问题》等。萨义德还是有名的乐评家、歌剧学者、钢琴家，并以知识分子的身份积极参与巴勒斯坦的政治运动，为巴勒斯坦在西方世界最雄辩的代言人。