芭芭拉·雷诺兹（Barbara Reynolds）: 世界知名但丁研究学者，在多萝西·L.塞耶斯（英国推理小说大师，整理并翻译了但丁的多部作品）去世后继续完成了但丁的《神曲》中《天堂》（Paradiso）的翻译，同时翻译了但丁的早期作品《新生》（La Vita Nuova）和文艺复兴时期著名诗人阿里奥斯托的《疯狂的罗兰》（Orlando Furioso）。此外，她还著有多萝西·L.塞耶斯传记并编纂了《剑桥意大利语词典》（The Cambridge Italian Dictionary）。

芭芭拉·雷诺兹（Barbara Reynolds）: 世界知名但丁研究学者，在多萝西·L.塞耶斯（英国推理小说大师，整理并翻译了但丁的多部作品）去世后继续完成了但丁的《神曲》中《天堂》（Paradiso）的翻译，同时翻译了但丁的早期作品《新生》（La Vita Nuova）和文艺复兴时期著名诗人阿里奥斯托的《疯狂的罗兰》（Orlando Furioso）。此外，她还著有多萝西·L.塞耶斯传记并编纂了《剑桥意大利语词典》（The Cambridge Italian Dictionary）。

Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religi...(展开全部)

Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religi...(展开全部)

Jack McEvoy is a Denver crime reporter with the stickiest assignment of his career.His twin brother, homicide detective Sean McEvoy, was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head--an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield.Jack is going to write the story.The problem is that Jack doesn't believe that his brother killed himself, and the more in...(展开全部)

Duration: 03:30:49 Don't miss this acclaimed audiobook, read by the author—winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner! The Poet X is also the winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award. Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishin...(展开全部)

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches ...(展开全部)

In The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity, J. D. Schmidt provides the first detailed study in a Western language of one of China's greatest poets and explores the nineteenth-century background to Chinese modernity, challenging the widely held view that this is largely of Western origin. The volume contains a study of Zheng's life and times, an examina...(展开全部)

Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics is an award winning political science book by Seymour Martin Lipset. The book is an influential analysis of the bases of democracy across the world. One of the important sections is Chapters 2: "Economic Development and Democracy." Larry Diamond and Gary Marks argue that "Lipset's assertion of a direct relationship between economic de...(展开全部)