What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this volume, the authors consider them as concrete biological questions. Their analysis is bold and provocative, for the authors have constructed a systematic theoretical biology which attempts to define livi...(展开全部)

This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.

Sindiwe Magona's collection of superb short stories brings a full range of South African women's experience brilliantly to light. From the village mother leaving her children to work; the maid in service to the white medem; the black child raped and murdered, Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night is at once tragic, triumphant, humorous, and sharp, but above all forcefully emp...(展开全部)

Short stories exploring the lives and circumstances of African women in South Africa, all told with insight humor and vitality, this collection is a forceful document of injustices. In the opening story, a woman leaves her mud hut--and her five young children--to flee to the misty mountains beyond her village. She had been awake at night, in despair, considering where their nex...(展开全部)

辛迪薇·马戈那(Sindiwe Magona，1943-)，南非著名小说家、诗人、剧作家、女性活动家、励志演说家，早年靠函授完成大学学业，之后到美国哥伦比亚大学深造，获社会工作硕士学位，并在联合国工作长达20年。一直致力南非种族歧视以及南非黑人女性经历的写作，获奖无数。2011年因其在文学和人道主义领域的杰出贡献被授予“天堂乌铜勋章”。作品有自传《致我孩子的孩子》《被迫成长》，短篇小说集《推一推及其他故事》，诗集《请留影吧》，长篇小说《母亲致母亲》《美丽的礼物》等。

杜鲁门·卡波蒂（Truman Capote）一九二四年九月三十日生于美国新奥尔良。一九四八年第一部长篇小说《别的声音，别的房间》的出版为他赢得国际声誉，此后的创作使他成为战后美国文坛最为著名的作家之一。他两度荣获欧·亨利短篇小说奖，是美国艺术与文学院院士。卡波蒂的其他重要作品包括小说《草竖琴》、《蒂凡尼的早餐》以及“非虚构小说”《冷血》。一九八四年八月二十五日病逝于洛杉矶。

A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century The audacious and elegiac second installment in her 'living autobiography' on writing and womanhood, from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home 'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor sharp insights' Financial Times Following the acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, Deborah Levy r...(展开全部)

林语堂（1895--1976)，福建龙溪人,现代著名作家。原名和乐，改名玉堂、语堂，笔名毛驴、宰予、岂青等，文学家。福建龙溪人。1912年入上海圣约翰大学。1919年后留学美国、德国。1923年回国，在北京大学、北京女子师范大学任教，支持爱国学生运动。1926年去厦门大学任教，写杂文，并研究语言。1932年后陆续创办《论语》、《人间世》、《宇宙风》，推动小品文的创作，成为论语派主要人物。1936年旅居美国。1947年任联合国教科文组织美术与文学主任。1954年任新加坡南洋大学校长。1966年定居台北。著有《剪拂集》、《开明英文读本》、《开明英文文法》、《大荒集》、《我的话》、《生活的艺术》、《吾国与吾民》、《无所不读》、《京华烟云》、《风声鹤唳》和《语堂文存》等。