安东尼奥·葛兰西(Antonio Gramsci, 1891年1月23日-1937年4月27日)、意大利共产主义思想家、意大利共产党创始者之一。 葛兰西生于意大利撒丁岛一个小职员家庭，家境贫寒，靠勤工和奖学金读完都灵大学。1913年他加入意大利社会党。1921年1月2 1日葛兰西带领陶里亚蒂、路易吉·隆哥等人，与阿梅迪奥·波迪加为首的社会党左派联合组建了意大利共产党（PCI）。 1922年5月，葛兰西作为意共代表在莫斯科当选为共产国际执委会书记处书记。1924年被共产国际任命为意共总书记，他取道维也纳回国，召开里昂会议，在罗马创办《团结报》，反对墨索里尼的国家法西斯党。1926年10月墨索里尼宣布取缔意共，又不顾葛兰西的国会议员身份，下令逮捕并判二十年徒刑。自1929年起，葛兰西获准在狱中写作。他写下32本《狱中札记》，这是意大利现代思想史上的重要著...(展开全部)

Colette began writing "Break of Day" in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the Cote d'Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup of her second marriage. The novel's theme--the renunciation of love and the return to an independent existence supported and enriched by the beauty and peace of nature--grows out of Colette's own period of self-assessment in the mid...(展开全部)

One of the distinguished comic dramatist's more somber plays, this entertaining allegory examines apathy, confusion and lack of purpose as causes of major world problems, with larger-than-life characters representing the evils of the modern world.

The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks--dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and clarity, her characters show us that life, thought, and language are full of disorder. "Break It Down "is Davis at her best. In the wo...(展开全部)

How to Break Software is a departure from conventional testing in which testers prepare a written test plan and then use it as a script when testing the software. The testing techniques in this book are as flexible as conventional testing is rigid. And flexibility is needed in software projects in which requirements can change, bugs can become features and schedule pressures of...(展开全部)

How to Break Software is a departure from conventional testing in which testers prepare a written test plan and then use it as a script when testing the software. The testing techniques in this book are as flexible as conventional testing is rigid. And flexibility is needed in software projects in which requirements can change, bugs can become features and schedule pressures of...(展开全部)

From Amazon.com Letters and Papers from Prison is a collection of notes and correspondence covering the period from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's arrest in 1943 to his execution by the Gestapo in 1945. The book is probably most famous, and most important, for its idea of "religionless Christianity"--an idea Bonhoeffer did not live long enough fully to develop, but whose timeliness only...(展开全部)

This is an edited edition of Gramsci's notebooks and appears to be complete, finished, and organized. In fact, however, Gramsci did not organize his notebooks as they appear here. Hoare and Smith organized these notes around particular topics, whereas Gramsci originally wrote his notes in 29 separate notebooks, which he wrote at different times and never had the chance to syst...(展开全部)

纳尔逊·曼德拉（1918年7月18日－2013年12月5日），南非著名的反种族隔离革命家、政治家和慈善家，亦被广泛视作南非的国父，1993年获诺贝尔和平奖，其生日7月18日被联合国定为“曼德拉国际日”。 萨姆•文特尔与曼德拉的外孙女、公开演说家和经济发展学家扎马斯瓦齐•德拉米尼-曼德拉共同编辑。

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.