Cultural critics say that 'science is politics by other means,' arguing that the results of scientific inquiry are profoundly shaped by the ideological agendas of powerful elites. Physicist Alan Sokal recently poked fun at these claims by foisting a sly parody of the genre on the unwitting editors of the cultural studies journal "Social Text", touching off a still-unabated torr...(展开全部)

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the ...(展开全部)

著名的《草原上的小木屋》系列第一本，美国独立精神的代表作之一。美国的“靠他人”（welfare）与“靠自己”（workfare）之争由来已久，在上世纪初“靠他人”的某集体主义思想在东西方大行其道的年代，这本以少儿读物面貌出现的小说却卓尔不群，以早期拓荒者一家子驾着大篷车向西部移民为切入点，深情描绘了“靠自己”的美国独立精神。 作者劳拉的女儿罗斯·怀尔德·莱茵为这本小说的成书做了很大贡献，也许正是这位后来写出《The Discovery of Freedom》的莱茵的因素，才让这本书字里行间都流露出一股自由和独立的精神。

The House on the Embankment, told by two narrators, is a series of intertwined reminiscences, flashbacks, and episodes, mainly of childhood and young adulthood in Moscow under Joseph Stalin. Most of the novella, told in the third person, relates incidents from the life of Vadim Alexandrovich Glebov. These portions alternate with short chapters told by an unidentified narrator w...(展开全部)

Hodgson was an English author who wrote in several genres, including horror and science fiction.

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some noti...(展开全部)

In the third book of the American history cluster, Jack and Annie are whisked to a midwestern prairie in the 1870s. They visit a one-room schoolhouse and learn about the hard life of the pioneers. When they return to the magic tree house, Jack and Annie spot a twister on the horizon. Is there time to warn the teacher and the children back at the schoolhouse? Or should Jack and ...(展开全部)

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

Introduction by Barbara Hardy