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)

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)

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。