The story of a rich, half-Japanese beauty in Batavia and her tempestuous divorce from a cold, tough colonial official. Leonard Blusse's new book is...for the light it casts on love and life on a colonial frontier, the most illuminating since 'The Cheese and the Worms'.

LIVES OF BITTER RAIN is a novella in Adrian Tchaikovsky's award-winning Tyrant Philosopher series. It is a prequel to the third novel in the sequence, DAYS OF SHATTERED FAITH. City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring ‘Perfection’ and ‘Correctness’ to an imperfect world. But before these ruthless Tyrant Philosophers send in their legions, they despatch...(展开全部)

In 1979, Josef Winkler appeared on the literary horizon as if from nowhere, collecting numerous honors and the praise of the most prominent critical voices in Germany and Austria. Throughout the 1980s, he chronicled the malevolence, dissipation, and unregenerate Nazism endemic to Austrian village life in an increasingly trenchant and hallucinatory series of novels. At the decad...(展开全部)

In 1979, Josef Winkler appeared on the literary horizon as if from nowhere, collecting numerous honors and the praise of the most prominent critical voices in Germany and Austria. Throughout the 1980s, he chronicled the malevolence, dissipation, and unregenerate Nazism endemic to Austrian village life in an increasingly trenchant and hallucinatory series of novels. At the decad...(展开全部)

A fascinating illustrated tour of the fabled places in literature and folklore that have awed, troubled, and eluded us through the ages. From the epic poets of antiquity to contemporary writers of science fiction, from the authors of the Holy Scriptures to modern raconteurs of fairy tales, writers and storytellers through the ages have invented imaginary and mythical lands, pro...(展开全部)

安伯托‧艾可（Umberto Eco） 1932-2016，出生於義大利皮德蒙的亞歷山卓，曾任波隆那大學高等人文科學學院教授與院長。身兼哲學家、歷史學家、文學評論家和美學家等多種身分，更是全球最知名的記號語言學權威。其學術研究範圍廣泛，從聖托瑪斯‧阿奎那到詹姆士‧喬埃斯，個人藏書甚至超過3萬冊，知識極為淵博。 已發表過十餘本重要的學術著作，其中最著名的是美學研究《美的歷史》、《醜的歷史》和《無盡的名單》等。 另有著作為《玫瑰的名字》、《傅科擺》、《昨日之島》、《波多里諾》、《羅安娜女王的神秘火焰》、《倒退的年代：跟著大師艾可看世界》、《別想擺脫書》、《艾可談文學》、《艾可說故事》、《帶著鮭魚去旅行》、《誤讀》、《智慧女神的魔法袋》、《康德與鴨嘴獸》、《意外之喜：語言與瘋狂》、《植物的記憶與藏書樂》等雜文、隨筆、評論集和繪本。 譯者：林潔盈 國立台灣大...(展开全部)

1966: S.H.I.E.L.D. sends secret agent Ran Shen to collect two Nazi scientists with the key to winning the Cold War. But the Soviets want the scientists as well, and have unleashed their most dangerous operative: the Winter Soldier, aka the brainwashed and presumed-dead partner of Captain America - Bucky Barnes! His mission: acquire the scienti sts by any means necessary...or ki...(展开全部)

里克•瑞曼德，漫画编剧、创作者，为漫威写过复仇者联盟、X战警、美国队长、毒液等系列，还为游戏写过剧本，如《死亡地带》等。 罗兰•博斯基，漫画、动画绘师，作品包括《幽灵骑士》以及包括惩罚者、金刚狼等角色的独立故事。

作者50年代后期进入哈佛大学攻读中国史，60年代初到台湾从事博士论文考察和进修汉语，以后10年先后任《纽约时报》驻台湾临时记者、驻越南和香港特派记者，期间发表有关白宫和越战内幕的专著，获1978年普利策新闻大奖。他自1979年初至1980年末任该报驻北京首席记者，在此期间，足迹遍及中国大陆各省市自治区，采访了工农兵学商各界人士，对我国遭受文革浩劫后的百废待兴局面感触尤甚。离任回国后历时一年有余著成此书，于1982年在美国问世，随后风靡欧美，备受西方读者欢迎，对一般群众的影响也较大。

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain thei...(展开全部)