“A heroine every bit as provocative as Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander.” – The Dallas Morning News Haunted by a life of violence and as proficient with languages as she is with knives, Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and hunter, has built her life on a reputation for getting things done—dangerous and often not-quite-legal things. Born to missionary parents in lawless Afri...(展开全部)

The Doll is a classic of Polish literature, a novel that takes in the whole nineteenth century and looks ahead to modern questions of empire, revolution, anti-Semitism, and socialism. Yet it is less a novel of ideas than a novel of people who have ideas, characters as vivid and memorable as any in Dickens. As the novel opens in Warsaw in 1878, our hero, Wokulski, having risen ...(展开全部)

"The Promise of Happiness" is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: 'I just want you to be happy', 'I'm happy if you're happy'. Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by t...(展开全部)

Bertrand Russell describes the purpose of this book as the putting together of some remarks on the state of happiness which are inspired by common sense, rather than any profound philosophy or deep erudition. It is based on the belief that many people who are unhappy could become happy by well-directed effort. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of th...(展开全部)

"The Promise of Happiness" is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: 'I just want you to be happy', 'I'm happy if you're happy'. Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by t...(展开全部)

Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical roots while revealing its particular relevance to contemporary problems. She rejects the traditional picture of Kant's ethics a...(展开全部)

The Kingdom of this World (Spanish: El Reino de este Mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, first published in 1949. It tells the story of Haiti before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution. It is an important work in the development of magical realism.

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904—1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠，“文学爆炸”的先驱。他在《人间王国》的序言中首次提出“神奇现实”的概念，将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起到了巨大的推动作用，被马尔克斯、富恩特斯、略萨等一批大师尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。文学之外，他在历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画等方面皆有颇高造诣，是一位难得的百科全书式作家。 1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对当时的古巴独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。1959年古巴革命胜利，卡彭铁尔结束流亡回到国内，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的作品包括长篇小说《人间王国》《光明世纪》《消逝的足迹》，短篇小说集《时间之战》以及几部音乐、文学评论集等。由于他在文学事业上...(展开全部)

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904—1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠，“文学爆炸”的先驱。他在《人间王国》的序言中首次提出“神奇现实”的概念，将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起到了巨大的推动作用，被马尔克斯、富恩特斯、略萨等一批大师尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。文学之外，他在历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画等方面皆有颇高造诣，是一位难得的百科全书式作家。 1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对当时的古巴独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。1959年古巴革命胜利，卡彭铁尔结束流亡回到国内，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的作品包括长篇小说《人间王国》《光明世纪》《消逝的足迹》，短篇小说集《时间之战》以及几部音乐、文学评论集等。由于他在文学事业上...(展开全部)

Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical roots while revealing its particular relevance to contemporary problems. She rejects the traditional picture of Kant's ethics a...(展开全部)