Chinese from southeast China flocked to towns and encampments in the Sierra Nevada foothills during the Gold Rush to search for gold. In the communities they established in Fiddletown and Amador County, Chinese immigrants found support and strength despite prevailing anti-Chinese prejudice. This book gives an insight into their experience as they faced pressures from the greate...(展开全部)

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stays grow...(展开全部)

The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation Soon to be an FX Networks TV series adaptation with a pilot directed by Janicza Bravo (Zola), written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), and executive produced by Jacobs-Jenkins and Darren Aronofsk...(展开全部)

Octavia E. Butler's masterpiece and ground-breaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of The Handmaid's Tale, The Power and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing. With an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò. '[Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' New York Times 'No novel I've read th...(展开全部)

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stays grow...(展开全部)

""Bewildering!"" I exclaimed to myself as I laid down the letter. It was from my publisher, telling me that a third edition of six thousand copies of the ""Amenities"" would go to press shortly (making fifteen thousand in all), and saying that, if there were ""no objections or corrections, it would stand approved as read."" I looked about my little office in which so many (to m...(展开全部)

奥克塔维娅·E. 巴特勒（1947—2006） 科幻界颇负盛名的非裔美籍女作家，获得过两次雨果奖、两次星云奖和一次轨迹奖。1995 年成为第一位以科幻小说获得麦克阿瑟天才奖的作家，2000 年获得美国笔会颁发的文学写作终身成就奖，2010 年入选科幻奇幻名人堂。 莫昕， 现居加拿大。爱好翻译，喜欢人文社科题材。已出版的译作：《卡尔·波普尔：理性与传统》《岁月》《梦游者》《无法翻译的世界之诗》丛书等。

丽贝卡·雷格·赛克斯（Rebecca Wragg Sykes）英国考古学家、科普作家，研究领域为旧石器时代考古，尤其是尼安德特人的生活。 除了学术方面的研究，她在大众传播上也有很高的声望，作品见于《卫报》和《科学美国人》等，并曾参与录制英国广播公司的历史和科学类节目。她还参与创建了一个主要面向女性考古学家和地球科学家的网站“泥刀使者（TrowelBlazers）”。 @LeMoustier / www.rebeccawraggsykes.com. 2022年获得英国皇家人类学会颁发的“公共人类学奖”。

丽贝卡·雷格·赛克斯（Rebecca Wragg Sykes）英国考古学家、科普作家，研究领域为旧石器时代考古，尤其是尼安德特人的生活。 除了学术方面的研究，她在大众传播上也有很高的声望，作品见于《卫报》和《科学美国人》等，并曾参与录制英国广播公司的历史和科学类节目。她还参与创建了一个主要面向女性考古学家和地球科学家的网站“泥刀使者（TrowelBlazers）”。 @LeMoustier / www.rebeccawraggsykes.com. 2022年获得英国皇家人类学会颁发的“公共人类学奖”。

In the nineteenth century, as Britain attained a leading economic and political position in Europe, British policymakers embarked on a bold experiment with small and limited government. By the outbreak of the First World War, however, this laissez-faire philosophy of government had been abandoned and the country had taken its first steps toward becoming a modern welfare state. ...(展开全部)