In this highly original novel Slauerhoff (1898-1936) reprises major themes from his poetry (erotic obsession, nomadism, persecution and confused identity) within a more ambitious formal framework. The book interweaves three narratives, separated in time but linked by a common association with the 'forbidden kingdom' of China. The first of these is the brutal and bloody founding...(展开全部)

"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'

Translation of La violence et le sacré.

作者：佶亞伍丁‧薩爾達爾（Ziauddin Sardar） 生於巴基斯坦，在大倫敦的哈克尼自治市長大。身兼作家、廣播人、文化評論家，是首屈一指的穆斯林知識分子。撰有五十多本伊斯蘭和當代文化的著作，被《遠見》雜誌（Prospect）列為英國百大智者之一。目前擔任美國東西大學後常態政策與未來研究中心主任、《穆斯林評論》季刊共同總編輯、《未來學》月刊顧問、倫敦穆斯林研究所董事長。 譯者：高平唐 報社資深編譯，電影公司影片和公關公司新聞摘要特約翻譯，譯有《緬甸：追求自由民主的反抗者》、《翁山蘇姬》、《希拉蕊回憶錄》、《歐尼斯光譜保健法讓你的基因變得更好》、《大熊市》、《巴菲特投資手冊》。

作者：佶亞伍丁‧薩爾達爾（Ziauddin Sardar） 生於巴基斯坦，在大倫敦的哈克尼自治市長大。身兼作家、廣播人、文化評論家，是首屈一指的穆斯林知識分子。撰有五十多本伊斯蘭和當代文化的著作，被《遠見》雜誌（Prospect）列為英國百大智者之一。目前擔任美國東西大學後常態政策與未來研究中心主任、《穆斯林評論》季刊共同總編輯、《未來學》月刊顧問、倫敦穆斯林研究所董事長。 譯者：高平唐 報社資深編譯，電影公司影片和公關公司新聞摘要特約翻譯，譯有《緬甸：追求自由民主的反抗者》、《翁山蘇姬》、《希拉蕊回憶錄》、《歐尼斯光譜保健法讓你的基因變得更好》、《大熊市》、《巴菲特投資手冊》。

There were two Norman Conquests. John Julius Norwich is writing about the 'other' one, the conquest of Sicily. When on Christmas Day 1130, Roger de Hauteville had himself crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was as brilliant as it was cosmopolitan; to an i...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

The master of the new "noir," Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel. A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-non...(展开全部)

Amazon.com Review Cult filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and the visionary French artist Moebius have teamed up again, this time to bring us a comics about the coming of the new Messiah. University professor Mangel (drawn with a Jodorowsky likeness), a restless man haunted by inner demons, becomes involved in a plot by a group of religious fanatics to bring about the birth of a ne...(展开全部)