This study addresses the relationship between the veneration of Buddha relics and the appropriation of power in early medieval Japan. Focusing on the ninth to the 14th centuries, it analyses the ways in which relics functioned as material media for the interactions of Buddhist clerics, the imperial family, lay aristocrats, and warrior society and explores the multi-vocality of ...(展开全部)

AN EMBER IN THE ASHES is a thought-provoking, heart-wrenching and pulse-pounding read. Set in a rich, high-fantasy world with echoes of ancient Rome, it tells the story of a slave fighting for her family and a young soldier fighting for his freedom. Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow ...(展开全部)

‘Tahir spins a captivating, heart-pounding fantasy’ Us Weekly Read the explosive New York Times bestselling debut that’s captivated readers worldwide. Set to be a major motion picture, An Ember in the Ashes is the book everyone is talking about. What if you were the spark that could ignite a revolution? For years Laia has lived in fear. Fear of the Empire, fear of the Martials,...(展开全部)

欧美诗坛一颗耀眼的新星。1977年出生于乌克兰敖德萨市一个犹太家庭，4岁失去听力，12-13岁开始发表散文和诗。苏联解体之后排犹浪潮掀起，16岁时他和家人以难民身份移居美国。1994年父亲去世，他开始用英语写作，“用新的语言来悼念父亲”。目前，他是加州圣迭戈州立大学副教授、创作系主任，讲授世界文学、诗歌创作及翻译，并主编享誉国际诗坛的《诗国际》年刊。 2004年，卡明斯基出版第一本诗集《舞在敖德萨》，引起诗坛轰动，奖项如潮而至，迄今已有西班牙语、法语、俄语、罗马尼亚语、波斯语、荷兰语等多种译本，卡明斯基也因此成为众多国际诗歌节争相邀请的热门人物。他的最新诗集《聋子共和国》与散文集《难度诗人》即将出版。作为俄罗斯少年流亡者，他的诗歌具有“白银”诗人的纯正抒情，但“流亡”主题在他的后现代诗学中演化为“美好的礼物”和“疯狂而美丽的自由”。

Described as ‘a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city’ (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debut Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures. Tightly realised domestic settings are invigorated with a contemporary relevance, humour and torment, and a distinctive, transcendent music.

欧美诗坛一颗耀眼的新星。1977年出生于乌克兰敖德萨市一个犹太家庭，4岁失去听力，12-13岁开始发表散文和诗。苏联解体之后排犹浪潮掀起，16岁时他和家人以难民身份移居美国。1994年父亲去世，他开始用英语写作，“用新的语言来悼念父亲”。目前，他是加州圣迭戈州立大学副教授、创作系主任，讲授世界文学、诗歌创作及翻译，并主编享誉国际诗坛的《诗国际》年刊。 2004年，卡明斯基出版第一本诗集《舞在敖德萨》，引起诗坛轰动，奖项如潮而至，迄今已有西班牙语、法语、俄语、罗马尼亚语、波斯语、荷兰语等多种译本，卡明斯基也因此成为众多国际诗歌节争相邀请的热门人物。他的最新诗集《聋子共和国》与散文集《难度诗人》即将出版。作为俄罗斯少年流亡者，他的诗歌具有“白银”诗人的纯正抒情，但“流亡”主题在他的后现代诗学中演化为“美好的礼物”和“疯狂而美丽的自由”。

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar—chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is. If I can just make it to the next minute . . . then I might have a chance to live; I might have a chance to be something more than just a ...(展开全部)

Joseph Rykwert is one of the major architectural historians of this century, whose full humanistic understanding of architecture and its historical significance is unrivaled. The Dancing Column is certain to be his most controversial and challenging work to date. A decade in preparation, it is a deeply erudite, clearly written, and wide-ranging deconstruction of the system of c...(展开全部)

The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa’s most important writers Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has ...(展开全部)