When Arvid Jansen comes-to one morning in the doorway of a bookstore in Oslo, Norway, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes: His parents and his brothers are dead, he has lost touch with his wife and daughters, abandoned his career as a writer and bookseller. His old life is gone. "In the Wake" is the story of Arvid's first steps toward resuming that life, of his g...(展开全部)

Arvid has lost his parents and his two younger brothers in a ferry accident. Only he and his brother are left alive. The novel he is writing about his father is stalled, the grief and guilt he feels at having survived are too overwhelming. It is as though Arvid has become dislocated from the flow of life. His only human contact is with his Kurdish neighbour, and a woman whom he...(展开全部)

With globalization steadily reshaping the cultural landscape, scholars have long called for a full-scale reassessment of art history's largely Eurocentric framework. This collection of case studies and essays, the latest in the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, brings together voices from various disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds, each proposing ways to remap, dec...(展开全部)

With globalization steadily reshaping the cultural landscape, scholars have long called for a full-scale reassessment of art history's largely Eurocentric framework. This collection of case studies and essays, the latest in the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, brings together voices from various disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds, each proposing ways to remap, dec...(展开全部)

This book argues that the rediscovery of mystical theology in nineteenth-century Germany not only helped inspire idealism and romanticism, but also planted the seeds of their overcoming by way of critical materialism. Thanks in part to the Neoplatonic turn in the works of J. G. Fichte, as well as the enthusiasm of mining engineer Franz X. von Baader, mystical themes gained a cr...(展开全部)

奥利维尔·布兰查德，国际货币基金组织经济顾问和研究部主任。 戴维·罗默，加州大学伯克利分校经济学教授。 迈克尔·斯宾逊，2001年诺贝尔经济学奖得主。 约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨，2001年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，曾担任美国总统经济顾问委员会主席及世界银行首席经济学家合高级副总裁。

In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policy makers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment. The crisis and the weak recovery that has followed raise fundamental questions concerning macroeconomics and econom...(展开全部)

奥利维尔·布兰查德，国际货币基金组织经济顾问和研究部主任。 戴维·罗默，加州大学伯克利分校经济学教授。 迈克尔·斯宾逊，2001年诺贝尔经济学奖得主。 约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨，2001年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，曾担任美国总统经济顾问委员会主席及世界银行首席经济学家合高级副总裁。

In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policy makers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment. The crisis and the weak recovery that has followed raise fundamental questions concerning macroeconomics and econom...(展开全部)