Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articu...(展开全部)

Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articu...(展开全部)

Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before―the immortality, Beecham’s vial―were a figment of her imagination. She doesn’t even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a...(展开全部)

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本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dying. The book develops a new theory of the ways in which human mortality is reacted to, and dealt with, in social institutions and culture. The hypothesis explored in the book is that the necessity of human beings to live with the cons...(展开全部)

Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. He is the author of many books, including Modernity and the Holocaust and Modernity and Ambivalence.

Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dying. The book develops a new theory of the ways in which human mortality is reacted to, and dealt with, in social institutions and culture. The hypothesis explored in the book is that the necessity of human beings to live with the cons...(展开全部)

"Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find that it excites interest and imagination." -- David M. Rosenthal, CUNY, Lehman College

玛蒂娜•罗斯布拉特  加州大学洛杉矶分校哲学博士、MBA、法学博士，美国知名杰出企业家、律师、医学伦理学家以及人权法律运动倡议者。  美国天狼星XM卫星广播公司创始人，全美最大卫星广播系统创建者。  美国著名生物医药公司联合治疗公司（United Therapeutics）创始人兼CEO，因成功研发出治疗罕见病原发性肺动脉高压的药物而闻名世界。2013年，玛蒂娜成为首位登顶“全球生物医药行业最高薪CEO”的女性；2014 年，她成为美国最高薪酬的女CEO，被评为美国最具影响力的11位女商人之一，并荣登《纽约时报》封面。  玛蒂娜目前致力于通过思维克隆技术实现人类永生的疯狂构想，并为这种虚拟人社会进行了全方位的构建。她的计划如果实现，人类未来将被彻底颠覆。