Narrow escapes and new starts, tearful departures and hopeful arrivals, unwanted scrutiny in the backrooms of officialdom: some of our most memorable experiences involve a passport. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby examines the passports of artists and intellectuals, ancient messengers and modern migrants to reveal how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger ...(展开全部)

This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will: ...(展开全部)

In this volume, Paul Verhaeghe's lectures on the development of psychoanalytic theory between Freud and Lacan are reproduced as a written work of astonishing versatility, which stands at the vanguard of Lacanian studies. Beyond Gender examines Freud's discovery of the unconscious, and Lacan's elaboration of this discovery as a gap in the subject between what (s)he knows and ...(展开全部)

◎ 著者 科林·塔克（Colin Tucker），已经在英国核工业领域工作了30年，大部分时间都在赛兹韦尔B号核电站，他的专长是“核安全”：保证反应堆安全运行，并确保核电站能够应付任何可能出现的问题。长期以来，他在学校、俱乐部和其他场合向公众介绍核电站的原理、安全性的经验。 ◎ 译者 黄欣，清华大学工程物理系核能与核科技专业硕士研究生，获得国家、国际专利各两项，发表SCI论文一篇，参与翻译业内图书七本。

In this volume, Paul Verhaeghe's lectures on the development of psychoanalytic theory between Freud and Lacan are reproduced as a written work of astonishing versatility, which stands at the vanguard of Lacanian studies. Beyond Gender examines Freud's discovery of the unconscious, and Lacan's elaboration of this discovery as a gap in the subject between what (s)he knows and ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•萨利斯（James Sallis）（1944－），美国著名犯罪小说作家、诗人和音乐家。通过六本小说，他成功塑造了私家侦探卢•格里芬（ Lew Griffin）的形象。作品曾入围星云奖、艾伦•坡奖、夏姆斯奖和金匕首奖。获得2007年度布契大会终身成就奖。根据他的小说《亡命驾驶》改编的同名电影，为导演赢得第64届戛纳电影节最佳导演奖。

詹姆斯•萨利斯（James Sallis）（1944－），美国著名犯罪小说作家、诗人和音乐家。通过六本小说，他成功塑造了私家侦探卢•格里芬（ Lew Griffin）的形象。作品曾入围星云奖、艾伦•坡奖、夏姆斯奖和金匕首奖。获得2007年度布契大会终身成就奖。根据他的小说《亡命驾驶》改编的同名电影，为导演赢得第64届戛纳电影节最佳导演奖。

Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late lig...(展开全部)

The 1950s pop music accompanying Li'l Bit's excursion down memory lane cannot drown out the ghosts of her past. Sweet recollections of driving with her beloved uncle intermingle with lessons about the darker sides of life. Balmy evenings are fraught with danger; seductions happen anywhere. Li'l Bit navigates a narrow path between the demands of family and her own sense of right...(展开全部)

The 1950s pop music accompanying Li'l Bit's excursion down memory lane cannot drown out the ghosts of her past. Sweet recollections of driving with her beloved uncle intermingle with lessons about the darker sides of life. Balmy evenings are fraught with danger; seductions happen anywhere. Li'l Bit navigates a narrow path between the demands of family and her own sense of right...(展开全部)