Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. Widely re...(展开全部)

From its first publication in 1981, Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece and it has come to be widely regarded as the most remarkable and influential Scottish novel of the second half of the twentieth century. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide-ranging concerns, its playful narrative conveys at its core a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's ...(展开全部)

Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. Widely re...(展开全部)

From its first publication in 1981, Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece and it has come to be widely regarded as the most remarkable and influential Scottish novel of the second half of the twentieth century. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide-ranging concerns, its playful narrative conveys at its core a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's ...(展开全部)

Acclaimed Harvard geologist Andrew Knoll delivers a sweeping and definitive new narrative history of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion year history and placing our current environmental crisis in deep context. The story of our planetary home and the organisms spread across its surface is far grander and more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled wi...(展开全部)

Acclaimed Harvard geologist Andrew Knoll delivers a sweeping and definitive new narrative history of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion year history and placing our current environmental crisis in deep context. The story of our planetary home and the organisms spread across its surface is far grander and more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled wi...(展开全部)

Finally back in print: The definitive biography of the legendary Japanese writer-legendary as much for his tumultuous life and macabre suicide as for his Nobel-nominated writings At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. In 1970 he startled the world b...(展开全部)

Alain Badiou's translation of Plato's Republic is both a work of literary transformation and, implicitly, a powerful and original comme ntary on Plato. Badiou stands virtually alone among major, modern-day philosophers as a self-proclaimed Platonist, the champion of what he calls a "Platonism of the multiple" rejecting anti-Platonism and most contemporary accounts of the thinke...(展开全部)

[英]奈杰尔·斯皮维 (Nigel Spivey)， 英国古典学者，剑桥大学古典文学高级讲师及伊曼纽尔学院研究员，研究方向为伊特鲁里亚艺术与考古、希腊罗马艺术和艺术人类学。著有《古代奥林匹克(2012年第二版)》(The Ancient Olympics，2nd ed. 2012)、《希腊雕塑》(Greek Sculpture ，2013)等。曾主持英国广播公司(BBC)的系列节目“艺术如何创造世界”(“How Art Made the World”，2005)。 孙慧杰，北京大学翻译硕士，拥有近10年国内外城市发展领域政策研究及翻译工作经验。译有《第二大都市：镀金时代芝加哥、白银时代莫斯科与明治时代大阪》。

[英]奈杰尔·斯皮维 (Nigel Spivey)， 英国古典学者，剑桥大学古典文学高级讲师及伊曼纽尔学院研究员，研究方向为伊特鲁里亚艺术与考古、希腊罗马艺术和艺术人类学。著有《古代奥林匹克(2012年第二版)》(The Ancient Olympics，2nd ed. 2012)、《希腊雕塑》(Greek Sculpture ，2013)等。曾主持英国广播公司(BBC)的系列节目“艺术如何创造世界”(“How Art Made the World”，2005)。 孙慧杰，北京大学翻译硕士，拥有近10年国内外城市发展领域政策研究及翻译工作经验。译有《第二大都市：镀金时代芝加哥、白银时代莫斯科与明治时代大阪》。