A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine’s long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine’s bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional ...(展开全部)

Claudia Rankine is an American poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City. Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including "Citizen: An American Lyric" and "Don’t Let Me Be Lonely"; two plays including "The White Card," which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson and American Repertory Theater) and will be published with ...(展开全部)

索比，站在朱布尔拍卖台上的孩子。没有人要他，除了一位老乞丐。在神秘的老乞丐的抚育下，他逐渐成长。但他没有过去，没有前途，没有自由。这时的他，是一个奴隶。 老乞丐的秘密身份被暴露以后，索比带着一份极其珍贵的口信，要逃避警察追捕，逃上飞船。这时的他，是一个逃犯。 索比成了往来星际的自由贸易船员，成为西苏号贸易家族中的一员。他拥有一切，除了自由。这是的他，是一个囚徒。 索比返回故乡，与自己的家人重聚。阴谋和背叛等待着他，但他无所畏惧。因为，这时的他已经成为一名“银河系公民”。

In a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be: adopting Thorby as his son, he fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must ride with the Free Traders — a league of merchant p...(展开全部)

<CENTER>A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations <FONT SIZE="+1">Science Fiction Grand Master ROBERT A. HEINLEIN CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY</FONT></CENTER> In a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction...(展开全部)

As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public’s responsibility. One route the Constitution provides for discharging that duty—a route rarely traveled—is impeachment. Cass R. Sunstein provides a succinct citizen’s guide to an essential tool of self-government. He...(展开全部)

这是一部犯罪小说，主人公自小频频与法律产生摩擦，成为监狱常客，周旋在警察、黑帮、冷血杀手、赌徒、和妓女之间。 这也是一部政治小说，主要矛盾冲突集中在1980年大选前的最后八天，两位候选人正在为争夺世界上最有威力的位置进行最后冲刺。36岁的主人公也为行使平生第一次选民权而彻底改变了命运。 但这部小说的真正主题，却是一个小人物代价昂贵的自我救赎。

这是一部犯罪小说，主人公自小频频与法律产生摩擦，成为监狱常客，周旋在警察、黑帮、冷血杀手、赌徒、和妓女之间。 这也是一部政治小说，主要矛盾冲突集中在1980年大选前的最后八天，两位候选人正在为争夺世界上最有威力的位置进行最后冲刺。36岁的主人公也为行使平生第一次选民权而彻底改变了命运。 但这部小说的真正主题，却是一个小人物代价昂贵的自我救赎。

◎五度贏得星雲獎、七度贏得雨果獎科幻三巨頭之一 「科幻先生」最新中文譯作 他曾是奴隸男童索爾貝由奴隸太空船載到九星世界的沙貢領地販賣，卻無人問津，只有一名瘸子老乞丐願意出價。他亦是罪犯老乞丐養父突遭橫禍，索爾貝也成了四處逃亡的通緝犯。他念念不忘，要替養父傳達一個祕密口訊，卻不知自己將成為某艘太空船上的囚犯……他究竟能否成為銀河公民？索爾貝終於獲得前所未有的自由，成了自由人，卻不知自己已捲入宇宙間最可怕最難以想像的陰謀。 而這次，他將無法逃脫這個精心打造的牢獄！科幻大師海萊因以老少咸宜的筆調與篇幅，生動地描述一個星際孤兒如何擺脫過往奴隸生活所帶來的陰影，沐浴在父愛與良好的教育之中，終究尋回自己應有的人生。在宇宙發展與奴隸制度的嚴肅話題下，說出一段動人的親情故事。

“This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American.” —Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow “l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured.” —Amy Tan, New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins “This book couldn’t be more timely and more necessary...(展开全部)