Award-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis. In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the U.S. of a person who died of an infection resistant to every antibiot...(展开全部)

In The Geography of Injustice, Barak Kushner argues that the war crimes tribunals in East Asia formed and cemented national divides that persist into the present day. In 1946 the Allies convened the Tokyo Trial to prosecute Japanese wartime atrocities and Japan's empire. At its conclusion one of the judges voiced dissent, claiming that the justice found at Tokyo was only "the s...(展开全部)

In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi struggle to construct a viable order of signs and practices through which they act upon the forces that engulf them. Their dissenti...(展开全部)

Why is Europe’s great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau argue that the core problem with the Euro lies in the philosophical differences between the founding countries of the Euro...(展开全部)

Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau argue that the core problem with the Euro lies in the philosophical differences b...(展开全部)

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in...(展开全部)

The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens...(展开全部)

拉斯洛是匈牙利著名编剧和小说家，代表作品包括《撒旦的探戈》《战争与战争》《反抗的忧郁》等。1985年，他的处女作《撒旦探戈》在文坛备受赞誉。1987年，拉斯洛凭借德国文化交流基金会的奖金移居柏林，并在那里获得了国际文学圈的关注。1993年，拉斯洛凭借小说《反抗的忧郁》获得德国年度最佳文学作品奖。 1994年，拉斯洛与匈牙利导演贝拉•塔尔合作改编的7小时史诗电影《撒旦探戈》，成为了电影史上的经典作品。90年代末与汉学家妻子结婚以后，他曾频繁访问蒙古、中国和日本，并于这一时期出版了《乌兰巴托的囚犯》《战争与战争》《西王母的下凡》等经典作品。 2004年，拉斯洛获得科苏特奖——匈牙利最重要的文学奖。 2015年，拉斯洛获得布克国际文学奖。 译者简介： 余泽民是旅匈作家、翻译家，北京第二外国语学院特聘讲课教授。翻译匈牙利作品二十余部，包括克拉斯诺霍尔卡伊《撒...(展开全部)

拉斯洛是匈牙利著名编剧和小说家，代表作品包括《撒旦的探戈》《战争与战争》《反抗的忧郁》等。1985年，他的处女作《撒旦探戈》在文坛备受赞誉。1987年，拉斯洛凭借德国文化交流基金会的奖金移居柏林，并在那里获得了国际文学圈的关注。1993年，拉斯洛凭借小说《反抗的忧郁》获得德国年度最佳文学作品奖。 1994年，拉斯洛与匈牙利导演贝拉•塔尔合作改编的7小时史诗电影《撒旦探戈》，成为了电影史上的经典作品。90年代末与汉学家妻子结婚以后，他曾频繁访问蒙古、中国和日本，并于这一时期出版了《乌兰巴托的囚犯》《战争与战争》《西王母的下凡》等经典作品。 2004年，拉斯洛获得科苏特奖——匈牙利最重要的文学奖。 2015年，拉斯洛获得布克国际文学奖。 译者简介： 余泽民是旅匈作家、翻译家，北京第二外国语学院特聘讲课教授。翻译匈牙利作品二十余部，包括克拉斯诺霍尔卡伊《撒...(展开全部)

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in...(展开全部)