"Five Spice Street" is a novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Some think X is 50 years old; others that she is 22. Some believe she has occult powers and has thereby enslaved the young men of the...(展开全部)

Ever since anonymous spray-can art began appearing on city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s, graffiti has been a ubiquitous presence in the urban landscape, its artists largely unsung heroes. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere and o...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for...(展开全部)

Lawrence the traveling merchant and his companion, Holo the Wisewolf, head north in search of Holo's home of Yoitsu. Using information obtained in the pagan town of Kumersun, they finally arrive at the small countryside village of Tereo. A church priest in Tereo is said to know the whereabouts of a monk who specializes in the tales of the pagan pantheon-but when Lawrence visits...(展开全部)

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关于作者 约翰•保罗•斯蒂文斯 约翰•保罗•斯蒂文斯，美国最高法院第101位大法官。他1920年出生于芝加哥。1941年毕业于芝加哥大学，“二战”期间在美国海军服役，从事密码破译，并获得铜星勋章。战后在西北大学法学院学习，担任过威利•拉特里奇大法官的法官助理。后从事律师工作，兼任众议院司法委员会垄断权力研究小组委员会法律顾问和司法部国家反垄断法研究委员会法律顾问。1970年被理查德•尼克松总统任命为联邦第七巡回上诉法院法官，1975年被杰拉尔德•福特总统任命为联邦最高法院大法官，2010年6月退休。 关于译者 何 帆 1978年生，最高人民法院法官，业余从事法政作品著译。著有《大法官说了算：美国司法观察笔记》等。译有《九人：美国最高法院风云》《法官能为民主做什么》《批评官员的尺度：〈纽约时报〉诉警察局长沙利文案》《谁来守护公正：美国最高法院大法官访...(展开全部)

When he resigned in June 2010, Justice John Paul Stevens was the third-longest-serving Supreme Court justice in American history. As a lawyer and on the court, he worked with five chief justices: as a law clerk during Fred Vinson's tenure, a practicing lawyer when Earl Warren was chief, a circuit judge and junior justice during Warren Burger's term, a contemporary colleague of ...(展开全部)

“This beguiling brew of fascinating scientific facts and illuminating, poignant anecdotes makes Five Quarts something like blood itself: vital and pulsing with energy.” –Entertainment Weekly From ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where machines test blood for diseases and scientists searc...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。