This book provides a revealing new look at the astrological signs, from Aries to Pisces. Gain a deeper understanding of how each sign motivates you to grow and evolve in consciousness. Not your typical Sun sign guide, this book is divided into three parts. Part 1 defines the signs, part 2 analyses the expression of sixty-six pairs of signs, and part 3 designates the expressio...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun ), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” ( The Boston Globe ); The Washington Post called her “the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua A...(展开全部)

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In 'A Private Experience,' a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront ...(展开全部)

篇目 The Southern Thruway The Health of the Sick Meeting Nurse Cora The Island at Noon Instructions for John Howell All Fires the Fire The Other Heaven

詹姆斯•鲍德温（1924—1987），美国著名小说家、散文家、诗人、剧作家和社会活动家，生于纽约哈莱姆区，童年坎坷，生父有毒瘾问题，后母亲嫁给牧师大卫·鲍德温，又生育8个孩子。 1938年，受其严苛的继父的影响，14岁的鲍德温成为了哈莱姆地区的一名牧师。17岁时，鲍德温决定脱离教会。19岁生日那天，其继父去世，当天哈莱姆地区也发生了暴动。 1948年，对美国的种族现实极度失望的鲍德温选择移居法国。1953年，鲍德温出版了带有很强的自传色彩的处女作《向苍天呼吁》。此后的三十年里，他陆续出版了《 土生子札记》《乔万尼的房间》《另一个国度》《下一次将是烈火》《告诉我火车开走了多久》《如果比尔街会说话》等著名作品。 1957年，鲍德温回到美国，投入当时如火如荼的黑人解放运动。1987年12月1日， 鲍德温因肺癌在法国去世。他一生著有六部长篇小说、四部剧本、十...(展开全部)

"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a...(展开全部)