This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commen...(展开全部)

Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, the precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbour who predicts 'They will come for you, man. They'll break you out of here.' Soon Che too is an outlaw, fleeing dow...(展开全部)

Aliens: Past, Present, Future covers the subject of extraterrestrial life from every angle, from the earliest speculations more than 400 years ago to today's ongoing search for Earth 2.0. In between are lessons learned about how life originated on our own planet, as well as the story behind the vast cult that has grown up around "flying saucers" and strange visitors from other ...(展开全部)

Directly tying in with the Prometheus and Aliens films, this excursion into terror is not to be missed! An unlikely hero tries to save a small group of researchers and miners from the doomed, deep-space Hadley's Hope colony--which is now infested with vicious xenomorphs! Terraforming engineer Derrick Russell takes control during an outbreak of aliens and leads his desperate sur...(展开全部)

Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an Alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive. Thirteen years later, Wilks is in prison and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim sea...(展开全部)

Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones. Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark side Examines the Rule of L...(展开全部)

Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones. Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark side Examines the Rule of La...(展开全部)

Billie only wanted what all children want -- the warmth and security of family, the human connectedness that comes from belonging. What she got was a nightmare without end. Dark Horse is proud to present the third volume in the remastered Aliens series, Aliens: Female War. Written by The Mask screenplay writer Mark Verheiden and illustrated by The Maxx artist/creator Sam Kieth,...(展开全部)

Wilks, Billie, and Bueller were the last survivors of a devastating assault on the aliens' home planet. But their return to the solar system made them refugees once more, fleeing earth and its alien infestation in a desperate attempt to stay alive. Now, in an otherwise unmanned military transport, they hurtle through space, destination: unknown, while in the cargo hold they car...(展开全部)

作者 / 特雷西娅•莫拉（Terézia Mora） 匈牙利旅德作家、译者，1971年出生于匈牙利的肖普朗，自1990年后长居柏林。 其作品包括诗歌、小说、剧本等，被译成20多种文字，并且获奖无数。早在1999年，其处女作《怪事》引起文坛轰动，获得英格博格•巴赫曼奖；2013年， 其小说《巨兽》获得德国图书奖；本书则于2017年为她赢得不来梅文学奖；2018年，她被授予德语文坛最高奖——毕希纳文学奖。此外，她还是匈牙利语译入德语方面的著名的翻译家，翻译过“匈牙利的乔伊斯”艾斯特哈兹•彼得的代表作品。 译者 / 丁娜 北京大学西语系德语专业毕业，德国慕尼黑大学哲学博士，现居慕尼黑，主要译作有：《西方通史》（第一卷）、《应许之地》、《铁幕欧洲之新生》、《背对世界》《运动通史：从古希腊罗马到21世纪》、《德意志之魂》（合译）、《寻访行家》（合译）、《红桃J...(展开全部)