Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centres, full of engaging exhibits that share those discoveries with students and an enthusiastic general public. At the heart of it all from...(展开全部)

"The Man Who Stayed Behind" is the remarkable story of Sidney Rittenberg, an American student activist and labour organiser who joined the military, became fluent in Chinese, was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s, became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed that country, and remained there until the late 1970s. Here he tells how he argued dogma with Mao Zedon...(展开全部)

李敦白（Sidney Rittenberg，1921年8月14日-2019年8月24日），犹太裔美国学者，生于美国南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的一个犹太家庭。美国进步人士。一九四五年来中国。一九四六年七月和十月，先后在张家口、延安新华广播电台从事英语广播稿的编辑和播音工作。

The Powers of Sensibility: Aesthetic Politics through Adorno, Foucault, and Ranciere explores the role aesthetic resources can play in an emancipatory politics. Michael Feola engages both critical theory and unruly political movements to challenge familiar anxieties about the intersection of politics and aesthetics. He shows how perception, sensibility, and feeling may contribu...(展开全部)

萨维娜·贝尔曼，墨西哥家喻户晓的剧作家、记者和电视节目主持人。1954年生于墨西哥城一个东欧犹太移民家庭，学生时代在伊比利亚美洲大学攻读心理学和墨西哥文学。 她的写作以幽默、讽刺性著称，除了深受家庭背景影响的犹太主题外，主要以女性观点出发，多方剖析诸如专制、暴力、歧视、偏见等两性之间纠结复杂的关系，也探讨人类与动物不同物种之间的关系。她创作的剧本曾四度荣获墨西哥国家编剧奖、胡安·路易斯·德·阿拉尔孔戏剧奖、新闻作品两度荣获墨西哥国家新闻奖。她编剧并制作的电影《后院》代表墨西哥参加2010年奥斯卡最佳外语片奖角逐。此外她还为目前两位墨西哥著名导演阿尔方索·卡隆（《潘神的迷宫》制片）、亚历杭德罗·G. 伊尼亚里图（《鸟人》导演，2015年奥斯卡最佳导演奖得主）分别创作了电影剧本《爱的历史》和《光》。 《在世界中心潜游的女孩》是萨维娜·贝尔曼在2010年创...(展开全部)

You want a play to be challenging, ambitious, nuanced and complicated. You also want it to sell tickets. You want to make art, and you know you’re in show business. These are some of the balancing acts that the National Theatre, and this book, is about. This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre. It is a story of lunatic failures and spec...(展开全部)

Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cy...(展开全部)

In this classic, John le Carré's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carré brings to light the shadowy dealings of international espionage in the tale of a British agent who longs to end his career but...(展开全部)

Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cy...(展开全部)