米歇尔•法柏（MICHEL FABER, 1960—） 英国文坛近来最受瞩目的非典型欧系小说家，被誉为“惊悚大师”和狄更斯的接班人，幻想大师罗尔德•达尔与存在主义大师卡夫卡的混合体。他出生于荷兰海牙，后随父母移居澳洲，在澳洲墨尔本大学主修古代，中古世纪和现代英国文学。1993年，他搬到苏格兰高地的一座旧农场定居，那里便是本书的背景。 米歇尔•法柏曾赢得多项文学奖项，其中包括—— 惠特贝瑞奖（Whitbread Award）； 尼尔•刚恩奖（Neil Gunn Prize）； 杨•圣詹姆斯奖（Ian St James Award）； 苏格兰艺术协会奖（Scottish Arts Council Award）； 苏格兰十字年度最佳小说奖（Saltire First Book of the Year Award）。 他的作品中，《绛红与雪白的花瓣》（The...(展开全部)

Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. Described as a "fascinating psychological thriller" (The Baltimore Sun), this entrancing novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peerin...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy, Lessing maps the growth of her consc...(展开全部)

Very few books on dating have stood the test of time like Passion and Purity. Its much-needed message remains strong and hopeful in an age when doing whatever "feels right" is common practice. Using her own life as an example, Elisabeth Elliot guides singles of both genders and of any age on how to put their love lives under the authority of Jesus Christ. Passion and Purity c...(展开全部)

In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by such movies as "Silence of the Lambs," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and "Candyman," "Skin Shows" unders...(展开全部)

Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne Anlin Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within large...(展开全部)

“It is a shameful thing to win a war.” The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte’s own service as an Italian liaison officer with the Allies during the invasion of Italy was the basis for this searing and surreal novel, in which the contradictions inherent in any attempt to simultaneously conquer and liberate a people beset the triumphant but ingenuous American forces as they ma...(展开全部)

库尔齐奥▪马拉巴特（1898-1957） Curzio Malaparte 意大利作家、记者、外交官。因其代表作《完蛋》（1944）、《皮》（1949）等获得国际声誉。1951年导演电影《被禁止的基督》，提名戛纳电影节金棕榈奖，获柏林电影节柏林市特别奖。

作者： 凯特•梅斯纳（Kate Messner），美国童书作家。毕业于雪城大学，做过7年的电视新闻节目制片人和记者，还当过15年的英语老师，并通过了全美专业教学标准委员会的高级教师资格认证。2011年她开始从事儿童文学创作，已出版60多部作品，代表作有《菜园里，泥土中》《池塘上，池塘下》《雪地上，雪地下》《雨林里，枝叶间》《如何读一本故事书》《如何写作一个故事》《深海璀璨》等。作品荣获金风筝奖、E.B.怀特朗读奖、NYT绘本奖、银行街教育学院图书奖等多项殊荣。2022年，凯特荣获由纽约图书馆协会颁发的帝国奖，表彰她在青少年文学做出的重大贡献。 绘者： 克里斯托弗•赛拉斯•尼尔（Christopher Silas Neal），艺术家、插画家，长期为NYT供稿，作品在一系列杂志中发表，获奖颇丰，并多次参展。曾在科罗拉多大学主修音乐，后转而学习大众传播及平...(展开全部)

This title includes psychology matters. Robert Feldman's "Psychology and Your Life" is an engaging new introductory psychology text that uses experiential exercises and activities, career-oriented text examples, and features designed to directly correlate psychology concepts to the professional and personal lives of readers. Throughout the text and supplements, "Psychology and ...(展开全部)