Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished but slightly faded reputation, is living in semi-retirement with his wife, Eleanor, in an isolated cottage beneath the flight path of London's Gatwick airport. Their old friend from college days, Sam Sharp, who has since become a successful screenplay writer, drops by unexpectedly on the way to Los Angeles. Sam is fuming over a sca...(展开全部)

David Lodge's extended novella is a delicious contemporary comedy on the perils of celebrity. It concerns a plot for revenge hatched by two writers, Adrian, a distinguished novelist seeking obscurity in a cottage near Gatwick and Sam, a successful scriptwriter who drops in on his old university friend en route to LA. The object of their revenge is one of the new breed of Rottwe...(展开全部)

In the context of debates about truth, nihilism is the view that nothing is true. This is a very striking and (at first) implausible thesis, which is perhaps why it is seldom discussed. Truth without Truths applies nihilism to the philosophical debates on truth and paradox, and explores how a nihilist approach to truth is a serious contender. David Liggins demonstrates that a s...(展开全部)

In the context of debates about truth, nihilism is the view that nothing is true. This is a very striking and (at first) implausible thesis, which is perhaps why it is seldom discussed. Truth without Truths applies nihilism to the philosophical debates on truth and paradox, and explores how a nihilist approach to truth is a serious contender. David Liggins demonstrates that a s...(展开全部)

'Home' is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings; home can be feelings of belonging or of alienation; feelings of home can be stretched across the world, connected to a nation or attached to a house; the spaces and imaginari...(展开全部)

'Home' is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings; home can be feelings of belonging or of alienation; feelings of home can be stretched across the world, connected to a nation or attached to a house; the spaces and imaginari...(展开全部)

简介：“来吧凯特，来到我的怀里吧。”“你要选择什么呢，是拯救家人，还是自己逃跑？” 对于一个13岁的小女孩，独自一个人面临“诅咒”，是可怕的，而这次意外除了她，所有人都不知道，无数次轮回，无数次选择，不同的结局，她心中这个秘密，究竟如何选择？

（美）卡森·埃利斯（Carson Ellis） 美国插画家。1975年10月5日出生于加拿大温哥华，毕业于蒙大拿大学，现居住于美国俄勒冈州波特兰市。卡森·埃利斯曾为《荒野丛林》《作曲家已死》等多部作品绘制插图，并于2010年获得插画家协会银奖。她善于将现代、民族与想象等各种元素结合在一起，作品细节丰富、极具意味，有着很高的辨识度。

简介：“来吧凯特，来到我的怀里吧。”“你要选择什么呢，是拯救家人，还是自己逃跑？” 对于一个13岁的小女孩，独自一个人面临“诅咒”，是可怕的，而这次意外除了她，所有人都不知道，无数次轮回，无数次选择，不同的结局，她心中这个秘密，究竟如何选择？

'Home' is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings; home can be feelings of belonging or of alienation; feelings of home can be stretched across the world, connected to a nation or attached to a house; the spaces and imaginari...(展开全部)