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)

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)

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)

This engrossing book, a brilliant blend of biography and criticism, tells the story of Feng Zikai (1898-1975), one of the most gifted and important artists to emerge from the politically tumultuous decades of the 1920s and 1930s. Barmé provides a closely woven parallel history, that of the life of writer-artist Feng, who was also an essayist and a translator, and that of China'...(展开全部)

The powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, including interviews with the working class and intelligentsia across the former Soviet Union, including those from corrective hard labor camps and prisons.

宇佐美吉启YOSHIHIRO USAMI是一个舞者，但又不仅仅是一个舞者。初中，受MC Hammer的影响，他开始跳街舞，如今，他成为日本家喻户晓的顶级舞者，足迹遍布全球。他的生活理念和舞蹈理念是——一边舞蹈，一边旅行。他可以耗时20个小时连换三趟飞机，只为见识、学习那即将消失的原始部落舞蹈；他去过许多“还会再来的地方”，遇到了很多“后会有期的朋友”。他用理想行走，用热情跳舞。在书中，我们能感受到生命的冲动和执著，请感受这无国界的爱与梦想。 在本书中，他去了古巴·哈瓦那，美国·亚利桑那，塞内加尔·达喀尔，巴西·萨尔瓦多，泰国·苏梅岛&帕岸岛 ，并且去了法国·巴黎，挑战全球最大街舞比赛JUSTE DEBOUT决赛选手。 他的《舞动地球Beat Trip节拍之旅 —— EXILE·USA环球采风之旅（二）》也已出版， 最新一本——《舞动地球Change ...(展开全部)

In this "astounding Borgesian document of clarity and brilliance" (Sebastian Barry), best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn pushes against the boundaries of genre as he explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, fiction, history, and literary criticism, Three Ring...(展开全部)