A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and free-standing sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on a life of thei...(展开全部)

In Time on Rock Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing, and the new developing appreciation of the natural world it brings her. Through the story of her progress from terrified beginner to confident lead climber she shows us how placing hand and foot on rock becomes a profound new way into the landscape. Anna takes us from the...(展开全部)

In Time on Rock Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing, and the new developing appreciation of the natural world it brings her. Through the story of her progress from terrified beginner to confident lead climber she shows us how placing hand and foot on rock becomes a profound new way into the landscape. Anna takes us from the...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.Greene’s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the ‘dangerous edge of th...(展开全部)

Penguin celebrates the centennial of Graham Greene's birth with commemorativeeditions of his greatest works.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.Greene’s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the ‘dangerous edge of th...(展开全部)

In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West—and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and an unhappy girlfri...(展开全部)

In these ten stories， Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration， cleanly chiseled prose， and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace."Beautifully imagined and crafted stories， by turns heartrending a...(展开全部)

理查德•福特，美国当代重要作家。1944年出生于密西西比州杰克逊市。他在密歇根州立大学毕业后曾担任初中教师，后在华盛顿大学法学院读了一学期，即转学加州大学厄湾校区攻读创意写作硕士学位。福特有轻微的阅读障碍，但痴迷文学，创作了《体育记者》、《独立日》等五部长篇小说，《石泉城》、《多重罪恶》等三部短篇小说集。 理查德•福特曾为“美国文库”主编韦尔蒂作品选，为《格兰塔》杂志主编多部短篇小说选，在多所大学教授写作课程。 福特是美国艺术与文学院院士。曾获得普利策小说奖、美国笔会福克纳小说奖和马拉默德短篇小说奖、Rea短篇小说奖和法国文学艺术奖。作品已被翻译成近三十种文字。