As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain to myself. Wang Gungwu is one of Asia’s most important public intellectuals. He is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese ...(展开全部)

From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision. Richard McGuire’s Here is the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. (With full-color illustrations throughout.)

Here is Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name. Richard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at Raw in 1989. Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it collapsed time and space to tell the story of the corner of a room - and its inhabitants - between t...(展开全部)

An exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that she keeps getting better?” These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, are among her greatest ever. Whether writing about her teenage self, microscopic creatures, or the upsides to living on ...(展开全部)

Cash is needed and Alex Rogo's companies are to be put on the block. Alex needs to complete the turnaround of his companies if they can be sold for the maximum return: if he fails they will be closed down. This text highlights the techniques needed to survive at home and at work.

今まで誰も読んだことがない文学 誰も見たことがないアート まったく新しい哲学 がここにある 窓と作りつけの暖炉のほかには何もない部屋、左上には2014年という数字。ページをめくると、1957・1942・2007……と様々な年代の同じ空間が現れ、さらに異なった年代の断片が共存・混在していく。そして紀元前30億50万年から22175年まで、ある家族の記憶の数々が地球の歴史と一体となって圧倒的なビジュアルで奏でられていく――リチャード・マグワイア『ヒア』はある部屋の一角の物語であり、地球の黎明期から遥かな未来まで、この空間で起こる無数の出来事の物語である。コミック形式の画期的なヴィジョンの完成形として、このジャンルの最大の発明家の一人が送りだす、まったく新しい文学、究極のグラフィック・ノヴェル/アート・ブック、そして深遠なる哲学の書にして驚異の書物がついに...(展开全部)

In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success... And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing. Psilocybin and LSD changed that. During a p...(展开全部)

Using simple words and bright illustrations, author-illustrator Taro Gomi takes children on a playful tour of the four seasons.

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way... Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he’ll do anything to avoid his empty house. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders...(展开全部)