The forms of liberal government that emerged after World War II are in the midst of a profound crisis. In I Am the People, Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for “the people.” To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfa...(展开全部)

The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected this pattern, as shown for example by numerous fruitful ventures into the “politics and poetics” of anthropology. Surprisingly little attention, however, has been given to the simp...(展开全部)

An unprecedented exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely passive objects of rule and remained unable to express collective political aspirations until the coming of co...(展开全部)

I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. Intelligent, insightful, inspirational, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a story you finish newly conscious of life's fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning...(展开全部)

玛姬·欧法洛（Maggie O’Farrell）,著名小说家，1972年出生于北爱尔兰。其首部作品《你走以后》（After You'd Gone）甫一出版即广受好评，并为其斩获贝蒂·特拉斯克奖。随后，其凭借《我们之间的距离》（The Distance Between Us）荣获2005年毛姆奖，又凭借《牵手之初》（The Hand That First Held Mine）荣获2010年科斯塔小说奖；此后，其作品还曾两度入围该奖的短名单。2017年，其出版了自己的首部回忆录《我存在：十七段与死亡擦肩而过的经历》（I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death），该作品很快便荣登《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书单榜首。其于2020年出版的小说《哈姆内特》（Hamnet）则为其赢得了当年的女性小说奖和美国国家书评人协...(展开全部)

On seventeen occasions, Maggie O’Farrell has stared death in the face—and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, she shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life: The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter wit...(展开全部)

Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms. He points out that the Psalms are poems, intended to be sung, not doctrinal treatises or sermons. Proceeding with his characteristic grace, he guides readers through both the form and the meaning of these beloved passages in the Bible.

A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book. I rattle and clatter over the tracks. Same time, same route, every day. Carrying people from one place to another, I travel over the ground and rumble under, twice across the wid...(展开全部)

Michel Henry is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paul Valéry, Montpelier. Among his books translated into English is A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis (Stanford, 1993)