柏瑞尔·马卡姆（Beryl Markham）1902年10月出生于英国莱斯特郡，四岁时随父亲到了肯尼亚。她先是跟随父亲训练赛马，十八岁便成为非洲首位持赛马训练师资格的女性。1931开始，她驾驶小型飞机在东部非洲载运邮件、乘客和补给物品，成为非洲第一位职业女飞行员。1936年9月，她从英国出发，驾驶飞机一路向西飞行，最后在加拿大迫降，费时21个多小时，成为第一位单人由东向西飞越大西洋的飞行员。与传奇飞行员汤姆·布莱克一起共事，客户甚至包括当时的英国首相丘吉尔。1942年，《夜航西飞》首次出版。1950年，她回到肯尼亚，重操赛马训练师的职业，直到1986年8月3日，她在内罗毕自己的家里突然辞世。

In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast’s memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When i...(展开全部)

The re-examination of Saint Paul’s letters in contemporary European philosophy is one of the most important developments at the crossroads of philosophy and theology today. In discussion with a range of authors contributing to this movement, including Heidegger, Badiou, Agamben, and Taubes, Gert-Jan van der Heiden offers a new and systematic account of the philosophical potenti...(展开全部)