Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels.We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. 'Outsider', 'outlaw', 'outcast': a woman's reputation was her...(展开全部)

林德尔•戈登（Lyndall Gordon），1941年生于南非开普敦，美国哥伦比亚大学文学博士，以罗德学者身份前往牛津大学，现为牛津大学圣希尔达学院资深研究员。 胡笑然，北京师范大学外文学院英语系讲师，英国伦敦大学玛丽女王学院英语文学博士。 肖一之，上海外国语大学英语学院讲师，美国布朗大学比较文学博士。 许小凡，北京外国语大学英语学院讲师，英国诺丁汉大学英语文学博士。

Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders, award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by conve...(展开全部)

傑米‧巴特利特（Jamie Bartlett） 德莫斯智庫社群媒體分析中心（Center for the Analysis of Social Media）的主任，專門分析線上社會運動，以及科技對社會的影響。其他著作包含《黑暗網路》與《歐威爾vs恐怖份子》（Orwell Versus the Terrorists）。他現居倫敦。 ■譯者簡介 朱崇旻 曾在美國居住九年，以閱讀為樂，現於台北讀生化科技。喜歡翻譯時推敲琢磨的過程，並認為無論是什麼題材的書，譯者都應該忠實表達出作者的立場。興趣包含寫小說、武術、室內布置和冬眠。

Damaged Goods is an original Doctor Who novel, released by Virgin Publishing in their New Adventures range of Doctor Who books. It is the second and to date last piece of full-length prose fiction to have been published by the television scriptwriter Russell T. Davies, who later became the chief writer and executive producer of the Doctor Who television series when it was reviv...(展开全部)

Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years following, a younger generation of critics came to the fore. Their work represented a reaction to the impoverishment of language in a commercial, utilitarian society increasingly under the sway of film, advertising, and the popular press. For them, literary criticism wa...(展开全部)

Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years following, a younger generation of critics came to the fore. Their work represented a reaction to the impoverishment of language in a commercial, utilitarian society increasingly under the sway of film, advertising, and the popular press. For them, literary criticism wa...(展开全部)

The New York Times BestsellerThe triumphant story of three courageous women who become the first female doctors. 'These women changed the world' - Nina Sankovitch, bestselling author of American RebelsIn the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demean...(展开全部)

In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness--a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society. Motivated by personal loss and...(展开全部)

This title includes the stories of eight extraordinary CEOs, who ignored or defied the conventional wisdom of their time and applied a common set of principles to achieve remarkable and enduring success. It's time to redefine the CEO success story. Ask most people what describes an effective CEO, and you'll get a pretty consistent answer-"a seasoned manager with deep industry e...(展开全部)