Starred Review. Between the opening note of perverse sexuality and the touching tribute to the permanence of true love at the end, murder, time travel and alternate futures fill in the second act of this astonishing graphic novel. Such a tale could only be penned by Jason, the Norwegian cartoonist who mixes outré fantasy with deadpan romanticism. As in all his books, this one i...(展开全部)

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, technofeudalism, in which the owners of big tech have become the world’s feudal overlords. * A GUARDIAN BEST FORTHCOMING BOOK OF 2023 * THE TIMES BIGGEST BOOKS OF AUTUMN 2023 * ‘What an amazing piece of work this is. The dark, scary, exciting song of our age. 100 out of 100’ IRVIN...(展开全部)

Highly acclaimed for The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis in Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French—at the minimum—of negligent homicide. “Racism,” he quotes Ruth Gilmore, “is the exposure of certain groups to premature death.” And Louis goes to visit the ugly gray town of his child...(展开全部)

Starred Review. Between the opening note of perverse sexuality and the touching tribute to the permanence of true love at the end, murder, time travel and alternate futures fill in the second act of this astonishing graphic novel. Such a tale could only be penned by Jason, the Norwegian cartoonist who mixes outré fantasy with deadpan romanticism. As in all his books, this one i...(展开全部)

To get the solution you either had to send in for it after the contest was over or pruchase the paperback version on the novel. I purchased the paperback. In fact it took me several years to find the solution to the 2nd novel Revenge of the Robins Family. Yes, the paperback version of that novel also contains the solution. However, the publishers of the paperback for Revenge de...(展开全部)

★对以青年为主导的文化景观的敏锐而及时的探索 您是否注意到，在日常生活中，您不是被当作成熟的成年人对待，而是越来越被当作一个需要不断指导和保护的不负责任的孩子对待？ 注意到社会逐渐陷入幼稚化是一回事，但了解这一现象的根源和原因并不那么容易。但在这部具有重大意义的新作品中，文化理论家和学者 Keith Hayward 博士揭示了一个以剥夺成人自主权为特征的世界所面临的深层社会、心理和政治危险。 但重要的是，《幼稚化》并不是一味的、冷酷无情的批评。这本内容丰富的书充满了趣闻轶事和例子，涵盖了从真人秀电视节目中幼稚行为的正常化到新一代政治“幼稚政治家”的崛起等各个方面，还对幼稚行为的诱人吸引力进行了深刻而幽默的描述，并详细提出了一些建议，以避免我们这个日益幼稚的世界所带来的一些陷阱。 A SHREWD AND TIMELY EXPLORATION OF A...(展开全部)

A SHREWD AND TIMELY EXPLORATION OF A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE PREDICATED ON THE PRIMACY OF YOUTH Have you ever noticed that in areas of everyday life, rather than being addressed like a mature adult, you're increasingly treated like an irresponsible child in constant need of instruction and protection? Noticing society's creeping descent into infantilisation is one thing, however und...(展开全部)

An amoral young tramp.A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband.A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir . It established James...(展开全部)

An amoral young tramp.A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband.A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir . It established James...(展开全部)

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world’s largest continent “Mr. Green has written a book of rigorous—and refreshing—honesty.”—Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries...(展开全部)