In five wide-ranging essays, A. David Napier explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as a part of cultural identity rather than being seen as something outside it. Pre-classical Greece, Baroque Italy, and Western postmodernism are among the artistic domains Napier considers, while the symbolic terrain ranges from Balinese cosmography...(展开全部)

To the Victorians, the Chinese were invariably "inscrutable." The meaning and provenance of this impression―and, most importantly, its workings in nineteenth-century Protestant missionary encounters with Chinese religion―are at the center of Eric Reinders's Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies, an enlightening look at how missionaries' religious identity, experience, and physical f...(展开全部)

伊夫林•沃（Evelyn Waugh，1903—1966），英国著名作家，被誉为英国二十世纪最优秀的讽刺小说家，并被公认为二十世纪最杰出的文体家之一。他最优秀的作品包括早期的讽刺小说《衰落与瓦解》、《邪恶的肉身》、《黑色恶作剧》、《一把尘土》等，创作中后期则有长篇巨著《故园风雨后》、描写二战的《荣誉之剑》三部曲以及自传《一知半解》等。

伊夫林•沃（Evelyn Waugh，1903—1966），英国著名作家，被誉为英国二十世纪最优秀的讽刺小说家，并被公认为二十世纪最杰出的文体家之一。他最优秀的作品包括早期的讽刺小说《衰落与瓦解》、《邪恶的肉身》、《黑色恶作剧》、《一把尘土》等，创作中后期则有长篇巨著《故园风雨后》、描写二战的《荣誉之剑》三部曲以及自传《一知半解》等。

Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order over the coming year. The books have an elegant new jacket and text design. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 'twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and...(展开全部)

Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us to society as it used to be but that now is gone forever, and probably for good.

The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina B...(展开全部)

Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Un...(展开全部)

The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina B...(展开全部)

Emily Martin traces Americans' changing ideas about health and immunity since the 1940s. She explores the implications of our emphasis on 'flexibility' in contexts from medicine to the corporate world, warning that we may be approaching a new form of social Darwinism.