With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persec...(展开全部)

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of an entire century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of an ordinary family that somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and...(展开全部)

This is an introduction to one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of research: cultural memory studies. Who was Maurice Halbwachs, and what are the 'social frameworks of memory'? What can Aby Warburg's work tell us about the 'memory of art'? How do Pierre Nora's lieux de memoire connect history and memory? Where does the ancient art of memory meet the neuroscienc...(展开全部)

阿卜杜勒拉扎克•古尔纳，坦桑尼亚裔英国作家，2021年因“对殖民主义的影响和身处于不同文化、不同大陆之间鸿沟中的难民的命运，进行了毫不妥协和富有同情心的深刻洞察”获诺贝尔文学奖。古尔纳1948年出生于东非海岸的桑给巴尔岛，60年代移居、求学英国，曾担任凯恩非洲文学奖和布克奖评审，2006年入选皇家文学学会。 古尔纳的作品围绕难民主题，聚焦于身份认同、种族冲突及历史书写等，展现的后殖民时代生存现状被认为具有重要的社会现实意义。

阿卜杜勒拉扎克•古尔纳，坦桑尼亚裔英国作家，2021年因“对殖民主义的影响和身处于不同文化、不同大陆之间鸿沟中的难民的命运，进行了毫不妥协和富有同情心的深刻洞察”获诺贝尔文学奖。古尔纳1948年出生于东非海岸的桑给巴尔岛，60年代移居、求学英国，曾担任凯恩非洲文学奖和布克奖评审，2006年入选皇家文学学会。 古尔纳的作品围绕难民主题，聚焦于身份认同、种族冲突及历史书写等，展现的后殖民时代生存现状被认为具有重要的社会现实意义。

Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure. Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved grandfather had Alzheimer's and now he's written the book he needed then -- a very human...(展开全部)

This volume presents political phenomenology as a new specialty in western philosophical and political thought that is post-classical, post-Machiavellian, and post-behavioral. It draws on history and sets the agenda for future explorations of political issues. It discloses crossroads between ethics and politics and explores border-crossing issues. All the essays in this volume ...(展开全部)

Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure. Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved grandfather had Alzheimer's and now he's written the book he needed then -- a very human...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly When, as a medical student in the 1950s, Kandel said he wanted to locate the ego and id in the brain, his mentor told him he was overreaching, that the brain had to be studied "cell by cell." After his initial dismay, Kandel took on the challenge and in 2000 was awarded a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research showing how memory is encoded in the bra...(展开全部)