Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this in what is a fascinating and rich addition to folk literature.

This novel brought its 24-year-old author critical and public acclaim nearly overnight. Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg's slums between a middle-aged writer and a much younger seamstress. Compact and easy to read, it represents an excellent introduction to Dostoyevsky's work.

This novel brought its 24-year-old author critical and public acclaim nearly overnight. Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg's slums between a middle-aged writer and a much younger seamstress. Compact and easy to read, it represents an excellent introduction to Dostoyevsky's work.

In this founding work in the literature of black protest, first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy would only serve to perpetuate black oppression. Essential reading for...(展开全部)

'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that brought the term 'moral panic' into widespread discussion. It is an outstanding investi...(展开全部)

史蒂文•M.谢夫林（Steven M. Sheffrin），图兰大学的经济学教授，并任该校墨菲研究所常务所长。他从麻省理工学院（MIT）获得博士学位，写作或合著了多本著作，包括《财产税与税收反抗》《理性预期》。他的学术论文发表于很多著名学术杂志上，包括《美国经济评论》《经济学季刊》（《经济展望杂志》《经济学与统计学评论》《国家税收杂志》《国际经济学杂志》《金融杂志》《货币经济学杂志》《国际经济评论》。

This volume considers the transport of molecules, large and small, across the membranes of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial cells. A diverse range of related phenomena are covered, but the unifying themes are the signal peptides that target proteins to particular destinations, and the role of chaperonins. Topics covered include: secretion of proteins out of the bacterial ce...(展开全部)

The fourth, but the earliest volume chronologically, of the only comprehensive survey in modern times of the surviving Italian frescoes from the end of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Mannerism, this groundbreaking oeuvre is an achievement in scholarship and publishing of the same magnitude as Abbeville's "Art of Florence" and "Art and Spirit of Paris". Following the suc...(展开全部)

玛格丽特·尤瑟纳尔(Marguerite Yourcenar，1903－1987)，出生于比利时布鲁塞尔，成长时期在法国度过，同时游历欧洲各国。1939年起定居美国东北海岸，1987年在缅因州荒山岛辞世。1980年尤瑟纳尔入选法兰西学院院士，成为该机构350年历史上的第一位女性“不朽者”。 尤瑟纳尔是一位典型的学者型作家，深受自古希腊罗马以来的欧洲人文主义传统浸润；同时，她很早就意识到欧洲中心主义的局限，一直对东方哲学和文学抱有浓厚兴趣。她的作品以渊博的学识、广阔的视野和深邃的哲思见长，包括诗歌、戏剧、随笔等，尤以小说创作著称。主要作品有小说《哈德良回忆录》《苦炼》《默默无闻的人》等，回忆录《世界迷宫》三部曲也享有盛誉。 尤瑟纳尔的语言优美典雅，纯净洗练，一向为人称道。 乔治·勒穆瓦纳，出生于法国鲁昂，已为六十余部图画书绘制了精美的插图，并获得诸多相...(展开全部)

The 21 stellar writers in this international short-story collection include five Nobel winners. All the stories were chosen by the writers themselves and contributed without any fee, and all profits go to fight HIV-AIDS in southern Africa. The stories are not about AIDS, but several are about war and about dying. In Njabulo Ndbele's "Death of a Son," parents fight to get their ...(展开全部)