The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escaping Aberdeen. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai and helps overthrow the Shogun - a rapid rise from lowly shipping clerk to millionaire industrialist. Yet behind Glover's astonishing su...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adorno's intellectual world. Although he wrote monographs on Hegel, Husserl, and Kierkegaard, the closest Adorno came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture courses, one concentrating on the "Critique of Pure Reason" and the other on the "Critique of Practical Reason." This new volume by Adorno comprises his lectures on the former. Adorno...(展开全部)

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阿卜杜勒拉扎克•古尔纳，坦桑尼亚裔英国作家，2021年因“对殖民主义的影响和身处不同文化、不同大陆之间鸿沟中的难民的命运，进行了毫不妥协和富有同情心的深刻洞察” 获诺贝尔文学奖。古尔纳1948年出生于东非海岸的桑给巴尔岛，60年代移居、求学英国，曾担任凯恩非洲文学奖和布克奖评审，2006年入选皇家文学学会。 古尔纳的作品围绕难民主题，主要描述殖民地人民的生存状况，聚焦于身份认同、种族冲突及历史书写等，展现的后殖民时代生存现状被认为具有重要的社会现实意义。代表作有《天堂》《来世》《海边》等。

Moving from revolutionary Zanzibar in the 1960s to restless London in the 1990s, Gravel Heart is a powerful story of exile, migration and betrayal, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise Salim has always believed that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted...(展开全部)

When cholera strikes Rochester, NY, most of the members of the Broadmoor family flee to their castle home in the Thousand Islands. But Amanda Broadmoor resolves to remain in Rochester to help control

Rand is on the run with Min, but his destination is a mystery to Cadsuane. Mazrim Taim, leader of the Black Tower, is revealed to be a liar, but his purpose remains shrouded in secrecy. Perrin is hunting desperately for Faile, now a prisoner of Sevanna's sept. With Elyas Machera, Berelain, the Prophet, and a very mixed army of disparate forces, he is moving through country rife...(展开全部)