Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. China's development does not result from historical imperatives or deliberate ec...(展开全部)

American investment banker Ben Hartman, son of legendary Max Hartman, who built a financial empire up from next to nothing, is on holiday in Switzerland when he meets a childhood friend who promptly tries to kill him. Ben narrowly survives the attempt, and when he wakes up he discovers that the body and all evidence of the confrontation has disappeared. But this is only the beg...(展开全部)

We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)

One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable bond are jolted, and what seemed like a future of endless possibilit...(展开全部)

简介：你相信这世上有亡灵吗?你相信亡灵索命吗？捉摸不透的黑暗、腥红可怖的血色、隐隐约约的低语与哀嚎、未知的悚然与惊慌。我们的世界错综复杂，死后的世界又是怎样？或许，在熙攘的人群背后，在寂寥幽静的黑夜里，亡灵深藏怨意，向无知的人们索命。从此，灵异事件接二连三发生。而被仇怨紧身包裹的亡灵，依旧肆意徘徊。它们不安地死去，又将这种不安加倍奉还。变态杀戮永不停歇，直至有人来拯救这一切。魂飞魄散，也许是这些索命亡灵的最好结局。在这本故事里，我们将看到一个又一个匪夷所思的恐怖事件，揭露亡灵背后的真相，思考人类的善意面与阴暗面。看恐惧如何悄然降临。可能亡灵正在你的身边。

这是一部神奇的小说，里面有各种颠覆你认知的伟人，内容和明智毫无关系，封面却是他。脑洞大开的剧情，普通的猪脚，以及一大波不是弱智就是低能的伟人们，不骄不躁，疗效刚好！

Chen Tien-Hong, the only and desperately yearned for son of a traditional Taiwanese family with seven daughters, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family’s village, a poor...(展开全部)

Benjamin d’une fratrie de sept enfants, Chen Tienhong a dû quitter son village natal de Yongjing pour vivre librement son homosexualité. Alors qu’il est installé à Berlin, sa relation avec un homme violent le conduit à passer plusieurs années en prison. À sa sortie, il décide de rentrer chez lui et d’élucider un mystère qui plane depuis son enfance. Arrivé le jour de la fête de...(展开全部)

Hugh Tremont Montague - code name HARLOT - is one of the grand old men of the CIA, a man obsessed and nearly - but not quite - the WASP patrician he seems to be. The narrator of Harlot's story is Harry Hubbard, whose famous father also belongs to the foudning generation of the CIA. Harry lives in the shadow of both men, but what he does not sense is the core of madness fromwhic...(展开全部)