The Exile’s Return: Orson Scott Card’s Ender in Exile By Beth Meacham, Executive Editor I have had a very long relationship with Ender Wiggin. I met him first in 1977, in an amazing novelette in Analog. I was working in a bookstore in those days, the Science Fiction Shop in New York City. A few years later, I started working for the Ace sf list—and was delighted to discover tha...(展开全部)

At first, Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted down. But things were quiet now, had been quiet for a year, and it was plain to him now that they would not bring him back at all, that he was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconveniently flesh-and-blood person. At the close of ENDER'S GAME, Andrew Wig...(展开全部)

The direct sequel to Ender's Game! Thirteen year-old Ender Wiggin has saved mankind from an alien threat. His reward? Exile. Branded a monster by those who feel threatened by his military genius, Ender is suddenly a hero without a home. Consumed with guilt, Ender must face his own demons and the people who are bent on stripping him of power. Based on the bestselling novel by sc...(展开全部)

Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three catego...(展开全部)

John J. Stephan attended Harvard and the University of London. From 1970 until his retirement in 2001, he taught Japanese and Russian history at the University of Hawaii, with visiting appointments at Oxford, Waseda, Hokkaido, Stanford, Tufts, Moscow, and Khabarovsk. His books about contested borderlands and contagious illusions have been translated into Russian, Chinese, and J...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

In this final volume of his biographical trilogy, Maurice Cranston traces the last tempestuous years of Rousseau's life. Unerringly faithful to the evidence, Cranston's narrative allows Rousseau and his contemporaries to speak with renewed vigor and undistorted voice. From his brilliant authorship of the "Confessions," the "Dialogues," and the "Reveries" to his ill-fated sojour...(展开全部)

Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older...(展开全部)

W. 迈克尔·布卢门撒尔，美国商界领袖、经济学家和政治顾问。1926年，布卢门撒尔出生于德国的一个犹太银行家家庭。第二次世界大战爆发后，随父母逃往上海，在难民区度过了少年时代。战争结束后，移居美国，先后就读于加州大学伯克利分校和普林斯顿大学。毕业后，他成长为一名商界领袖和政界顾问，先后辅佐过约翰·肯尼迪、吉米·卡特等多位美国总统，1977—1979年，曾担任美国第64任财政部部长，卸任后又成为多家跨国公司的首席执行官。1997年，退休后的布卢门撒尔重返德国，创办柏林犹太博物馆并任馆长直至2014年。