An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. She opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges an Albanian...(展开全部)

Originally released in 1997 as a limited hardcover edition of 2,500 copies that sold out almost instantly, Ghost World has subsequently gone through 14 softcover printings, selling in excess of 150,000 copies in the United States, becoming one of the best-selling and most revered graphic novels of all-time, culminating in the 2001 Academy Award-nominated film starring Thora Bir...(展开全部)

罗伯特•哈里斯（Robert Harris） 英国最重量级畅销小说家。1957年出生于英国诺丁汉，就读于剑桥大学塞尔文学院时已展露出过人才华，曾任剑桥辩论协会主席。毕业后先后于英国广播公司、《观察家报》工作，并担任《星期日泰晤士报》和《每日电讯报》专栏作家。2003年荣获英国新闻奖之年度最佳专栏作家殊荣。1993年，他出版了小说处女作《祖国》（Fatherland），一夜成名，从而转向成为一名小说家。此后的《密码迷情》（Enigma）、《大天使》（Archangel）、《庞贝》（Pompeii）都是风靡欧美的畅销小说。因为题材新颖，情节构思精巧，其作品常常被拍摄成影视作品，由国际大导演罗曼•波兰斯基指导的电影《庞贝》将于2009年上映。对罗伯特•哈里斯的小说推崇备至的波兰斯基也已接下《影子写手》的改编与导演工作，将其搬上大银幕。

Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full compr...(展开全部)

The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. However central they may be to the question of being in Western thought, from Aristotle to Heidegger, events have always been assigned a derivative status, indeterminate, at the margins ...(展开全部)

The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. However central they may be to the question of being in Western thought, from Aristotle to Heidegger, events have always been assigned a derivative status, indeterminate, at the margins ...(展开全部)

Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full compr...(展开全部)

Contemporary philosophy, from Kant through Bergson and Husserl to Heidegger, has assumed that time must be conceived as a fundamental determination of the subject: Time is not first in things but arises from actions, attitudes, or comportments through which a subject temporalizes mtime, expecting or remembering, anticipating the future or making a decision. Event and Time trace...(展开全部)