For more than 30 years, Patience Gray author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone; grew much of her own food; and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only f...(展开全部)

亚当·费德曼（Adam Federman），传记作家、记者。他为《国家》杂志、《卫报》《哥伦比亚新闻评论》《美食》《烹饪漫谈》《地球岛杂志》《阿迪伦朗达客生活》等出版物撰稿，是英国国家能源与环境研究所研究员、俄罗斯富布赖特研究员、米德尔伯里环境新闻研究员、波尔克调查报告奖获得者。此外，他还曾是一名厨师、面包师和糕点师，现居美国佛蒙特州。

The author has for the last 20 years shared her life with a sculptor whose appetite for marble and sedimentary rocks has taken them to Tuscany, Catalonia, Naxos and Apulia. She has written a passionate autobiographical cookbook, Mediterranean through and through and as compelling as a first class novel. It is not like any other book written in the past 50 years and its memory w...(展开全部)

乔舒亚•斯珀林 Joshua Sperling 生于纽约，成长于加利福尼亚，于耶鲁大学获得比较文学、电影与媒体博士学位，现任教于欧伯林大学，文章见于Brooklyn Rail, Guernica, Film Quarterly, Jump Cut， Bullett Magazine及众多出版物。

The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at art with Ways of Seeing. As a storyteller and political activist, he defend...(展开全部)

This Handbook features 20 original essays by leading figures in the discipline, which examine traditional areas of research as well as cutting-edge areas of inquiry. Divided into three parts – Food, Self and Other; Food Security, Nutrition and Food Safety; Food as Craft, Industry and Ethics – the book covers topics such as identity, commensality, locality, migration, ethical co...(展开全部)

Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from India to the United States and sees how each deals with the challeng...(展开全部)

During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage many of which have been unavailable for some time are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonis...(展开全部)

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY OF OSCAR WILDE'S LIFE AND WORK HISTORICAL CONTEST OF THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY DE PROFUNDIS THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL NOTES INTERPRETIVE NOTES CRITICAL EXCERPTS QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERESTED READER

Contents Introduction by Richard Ellmann The Picture of Dorian Gray Lady Windemere's Fan Salome An Ideal Husband The Importance of being Earnest The Ballad of Reading Gaol