As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times over the next twenty-five years, during which time the secret police—the Securitate—...(展开全部)

蒂莫西·加顿艾什（Timothy Garton Ash）：当代西方最重要的政治写作者之一，牛津大学历史学教授、英国《卫报》专栏作家、中东欧当代史专家，著有《波兰革命》、《档案：一部个人史》、《事实即颠覆：无以名之的十年的政治写作》等。

蒂莫西·加顿艾什（Timothy Garton Ash）：当代西方最重要的政治写作者之一，牛津大学历史学教授、英国《卫报》专栏作家、中东欧当代史专家，著有《波兰革命》、《档案：一部个人史》、《事实即颠覆：无以名之的十年的政治写作》等。

A coming-of-age novel with supernatural overtones from the bestselling author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. Five high school classmates hold secrets close to their hearts–hidden talents, unspoken feelings, and buried pain. As they collide with each other on the path to growing up, they might jostle some of those secrets free. From Yoru Sumino, acclaimed author of I Want to Ea...(展开全部)

A coming-of-age novel with supernatural overtones from the bestselling author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. Five high school classmates hold secrets close to their hearts–hidden talents, unspoken feelings, and buried pain. As they collide with each other on the path to growing up, they might jostle some of those secrets free. From Yoru Sumino, acclaimed author of I Want to Ea...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Gowda's debut novel opens in a small Indian village with a young woman giving birth to a baby girl. The father intends to kill the baby (the fate of her sister born before her) but the mother, Kavita, has her spirited away to a Mumbai orphanage. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Somer, a doctor who can't bear children, is persuaded by her Indian husband, Krish...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly) new science-based thriller from the bestselling author of The Martian. “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sol...(展开全部)

The city is often depicted as a sort of self-organizing chaos. This collection of essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, makes the case for the opposite hypothesis: The city is always the result of political intention, often in the form of specific architectural projects. Cities are shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions. This thesis is s...(展开全部)