Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and eve...(展开全部)

The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it's a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action. Trouble is, each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own. The White Violin is bedridden due to an unfortunate blow to the head. Rumor has l...(展开全部)

Welcome to Blackwood Academy: a boarding school located on the fringes of the afterlife. No one knows why they end up at Blackwood; but when they enter the school's arched gates the only way out is to be chosen for the Decennial – a series of magical trials held once a decade. The chosen pupil is offered a choice: graduate and join Blackwood’s magical elite, or venture into the...(展开全部)

If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship. In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopt...(展开全部)

If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship. In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopt...(展开全部)

玛吉·伯格，英国牛津大学文学博士、加拿大女王大学英文系教授，多次获得学校的教学卓越奖，从2008 年至2012 年主持女王大学的教与学讲席，研究领域为英国维多利亚时期文学、文学理论、性别和性态。 芭芭拉·西伯，加拿大女王大学文学博士、加拿大布鲁克大学英文系教授，2014 年曾获得布鲁克大学人文学部教学卓越奖，教研领域为18 世纪至19 世纪英国小说、简·奥斯丁、动物研究。 田雷，华东师范大学法学院教授。本书翻译初稿完成于在北京大学文研院驻访期间，后改定于2020年春季新冠疫情全球蔓延时。完成本书翻译后，他开始学会理直气壮地慢下来，唯一迫不及待的是要与学界同仁分享本书，找寻慢中同道。

This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and their consequences for society and culture at large--have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-rang...(展开全部)

作者简介 [美]詹姆斯·F. 英格利希，美国文化理论家、文学社会学和数据驱动人文研究方法的领军人物。他目前是宾夕法尼亚大学教授、普莱斯数字人文研究所创始人和主任，曾担任欧洲文化节顾问委员会委员 (2009一2011)、美国国家图书奖小说类评委会主席（2016）等，主要研究领域为文化社会学与经济学、文学研究学科史，及当代英国小说、电影和电视。他正在撰写的《以数计美》(Beauty by the Numbers)研究了当代文学、艺术领域的评级和排名体系。 译者简介 芮小河 西安外国语大学欧美文学研究中心教授，博士生导师，主要研究领域为当代英语文学、文化研究和文艺理论等。 党争胜 西安外国语大学教授，博士生导师，主要研究领域为文学翻译理论和翻译批评研究。

Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics criticize judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges to dismiss academic discourse as divorced from reality. Richard Posner reflects on the causes and consequences of this widening gap and what can be done to close it.