Red Star Over the Black Sea tells the story of Nâzım Hikmet and his generation. Nâzım Hikmet (1902–63) is best-known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. Born at the turn of the twentieth century and coming of age in the early 1920s, the women and men of Nâzım Hikmet’s generation were ...(展开全部)

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorized account of Mao’s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, a classic work that remains one of the most important books ...(展开全部)

The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colorful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests run deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, the Black Sea is more important than ever. In this lively and entertaini...(展开全部)

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, "The Novel and the Sea" recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the a...(展开全部)

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, "The Novel and the Sea" recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the a...(展开全部)

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

作者： 凯特•梅斯纳（Kate Messner），美国童书作家。毕业于雪城大学，做过7年的电视新闻节目制片人和记者，还当过15年的英语老师，并通过了全美专业教学标准委员会的高级教师资格认证。2011年她开始从事儿童文学创作，已出版60多部作品，代表作有《菜园里，泥土中》《池塘上，池塘下》《雪地上，雪地下》《雨林里，枝叶间》《如何读一本故事书》《如何写作一个故事》《深海璀璨》等。作品荣获金风筝奖、E.B.怀特朗读奖、NYT绘本奖、银行街教育学院图书奖等多项殊荣。2022年，凯特荣获由纽约图书馆协会颁发的帝国奖，表彰她在青少年文学做出的重大贡献。 绘者： 克里斯托弗•赛拉斯•尼尔（Christopher Silas Neal），艺术家、插画家，长期为NYT供稿，作品在一系列杂志中发表，获奖颇丰，并多次参展。曾在科罗拉多大学主修音乐，后转而学习大众传播及平...(展开全部)

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.Written in 1952,this hugely successfully novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature...

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.Written in 1952,this hugely successfully novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature...

What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophy - from Plato to Karl Marx to Jean Paul Sartre to Pierre Bourdieu - the history of so many figures of the poor: plebes, men of iron, the demos, artisans, common people, proletarians, ...(展开全部)