As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Net...(展开全部)

'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North.' LEE CHILD `Tense and compelling.' James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island. The CIA recruits her twin sister t...(展开全部)

作者簡介 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov） 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov ，1963－） 俄羅斯北韓問題專家，曾任首爾國民大學（Koomkin University）歷史教授、澳大利亞國立大學（the Australian National University）北韓歷史和政治高級講師。 1963年7月26日生於蘇聯列寧格勒（今聖彼得堡）， 大學和研究所就讀於列寧格勒國立大學。1985年他以一名平壤的交換學生在金日成綜合大學學習，並且在那裡學得一口流利的韓國語。關於北韓問題，從歷史到經濟和政治，他的著述頗多。本書是他在朝鮮期間的所見以及研究重要集結，是較早的有關北韓的重要文字記錄。著有：From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960(20...(展开全部)

作者簡介 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov） 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov ，1963－） 俄羅斯北韓問題專家，曾任首爾國民大學（Koomkin University）歷史教授、澳大利亞國立大學（the Australian National University）北韓歷史和政治高級講師。 1963年7月26日生於蘇聯列寧格勒（今聖彼得堡）， 大學和研究所就讀於列寧格勒國立大學。1985年他以一名平壤的交換學生在金日成綜合大學學習，並且在那裡學得一口流利的韓國語。關於北韓問題，從歷史到經濟和政治，他的著述頗多。本書是他在朝鮮期間的所見以及研究重要集結，是較早的有關北韓的重要文字記錄。著有：From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960(20...(展开全部)

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into hi...(展开全部)

'"Season of Migration to the North" is an Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions a...(展开全部)

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into hi...(展开全部)

Japan's output of manga is massive, accounting for a staggering forty percent of everything published each year in the country.Outside Japan, there has been a global boom in sales, with the manga aesthetic spreading from comics into all areas of Western youth culture through film, computer games, advertising, and design. Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics presents an acce...(展开全部)

Japan's output of manga is massive, accounting for a staggering forty percent of everything published each year in the country.Outside Japan, there has been a global boom in sales, with the manga aesthetic spreading from comics into all areas of Western youth culture through film, computer games, advertising, and design. Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics presents an acce...(展开全部)

When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and...(展开全部)