亚历克斯·米勒，澳大利亚当代重要作家。生于英国伦敦，十七岁随父母移居澳太利亚。1972年开始写作并在墨尔本大学教授写作课。已出版七部长篇小说，其中《浪子》（1992）和《石乡行》（2002）荣获澳大利亚最高文学奖“迈尔斯·富兰克林奖”。《浪子》将目光投向遥远东方的中国，出版后引起强烈反响，再获“英联邦作家奖”；《石乡行》以历史的高度、恢弘的气势深刻描写了澳大利亚原住民题材。

亚历克斯·米勒，澳大利亚当代重要作家。生于英国伦敦，十七岁随父母移居澳太利亚。1972年开始写作并在墨尔本大学教授写作课。已出版七部长篇小说，其中《浪子》（1992）和《石乡行》（2002）荣获澳大利亚最高文学奖“迈尔斯·富兰克林奖”。《浪子》将目光投向遥远东方的中国，出版后引起强烈反响，再获“英联邦作家奖”；《石乡行》以历史的高度、恢弘的气势深刻描写了澳大利亚原住民题材。

Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living things, in Senses of Landscape the philosopher John Sallis turns to landscapes, and in particular to their representation in painting, to present a powerful synthetic work. Senses of Landscape proffers three kinds of analyses, which, though distinct, continually int...(展开全部)

The Ministry of Pain tells the story of Tanja Lucic, an exile from Yugoslavia and a lecturer in Serbo-Croatian literature at the University of Amsterdam. Her class is filled with other Yugoslav exiles, not much younger than she, who have found temporary refuge in the Department of Slavonic Languages. Rather than teach literature, Tanja prods the students to reconstruct their pa...(展开全部)

Why must humanity suffer? In this elegant and thoughtful work, C. S. Lewis questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how this contrasts with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent and good. An answer to this critical theological problem is found within these pages.

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426—now called Acheron—has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph—the killing machine known as the Alien. Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet. Two such residents are Anne and Russell Jorden,...(展开全部)

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426—now called Acheron—has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph—the killing machine known as the Alien. Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet. Two such residents are Anne and Russell Jorden,...(展开全部)

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all - 'If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?' And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of our time sets out to disentangle this knotty issue. With his signature wealth of compassion and insight,...(展开全部)

Beutifully repackaged as part of the C.S. Lewis Signature Classic Range, Lewis addresses the question which tortures every generation -- Why must we suffer? For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all -- 'If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?' And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor ca...(展开全部)

introduction by Bernard Tschumi In A Landscape of Events, the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces."Urban disorientation, the machines of war, a...(展开全部)