What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? In the last few years, as identity politics has taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings, the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. Hags asks the question why these women are treated...(展开全部)

艾克敏，前美国《时代周刊》资深记者，中国、俄罗斯和中东地区的专家。在《美国时代周刊》工作的23年里，他的采访报道囊括了5大洲50多个国家，采访过许多著名人物。他曾连续3次撰写《时代周刊》年度封面人物。1994年离开《时代周刊》后，他曾做过一段自由职业者，随后在1998年出任华盛顿伦理与公共政策中心高级研究员。 另著：<Jesus in Beijing:How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power> 《耶稣在北京：基督教如何转化中国改变全球力量平衡》

艾克敏，前美国《时代周刊》资深记者，中国、俄罗斯和中东地区的专家。在《美国时代周刊》工作的23年里，他的采访报道囊括了5大洲50多个国家，采访过许多著名人物。他曾连续3次撰写《时代周刊》年度封面人物。1994年离开《时代周刊》后，他曾做过一段自由职业者，随后在1998年出任华盛顿伦理与公共政策中心高级研究员。 另著：<Jesus in Beijing:How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power> 《耶稣在北京：基督教如何转化中国改变全球力量平衡》

艾克敏，前美国《时代周刊》资深记者，中国、俄罗斯和中东地区的专家。在《美国时代周刊》工作的23年里，他的采访报道囊括了5大洲50多个国家，采访过许多著名人物。他曾连续3次撰写《时代周刊》年度封面人物。1994年离开《时代周刊》后，他曾做过一段自由职业者，随后在1998年出任华盛顿伦理与公共政策中心高级研究员。 另著：<Jesus in Beijing:How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power> 《耶稣在北京：基督教如何转化中国改变全球力量平衡》

Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent’s Park hours in 1944, the ailing H.G. Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic touch; his plunge into socialist politics; his ...(展开全部)

A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country house in County Cork, which harbours a collection of people held there by ties of kinship or habit, and haunted by the memory of its former owner. During a hot and dry summer, Jane pursues her romantic imaginings, while not far off the rich, promiscuou...(展开全部)

Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. ...(展开全部)

By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.

By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.