Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a r...(展开全部)

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them, are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a r...(展开全部)

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka completed an epic journey across twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, relentlessly researching the beauty of the ancient world. Before the Magnum photographer, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these artefacts with so much persistence ...(展开全部)

Between 1991 and 2015, Josef Koudelka completed an epic journey across twenty countries bordering the Mediterranean, stopping at over 200 Greek and Roman archaeological sites, relentlessly researching the beauty of the ancient world. Before the Magnum photographer, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these artefacts with so much persistence ...(展开全部)

When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh ? a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive ? but they are no longer certain that t...(展开全部)

奥森•斯科特•卡德是当今美国科幻界最炙手可热的人物之一。在美国科幻史上，从来没有人在两年内连续两次将“雨果”和“星云”两大科幻奖尽收囊中，直到卡德横空出世。1986年，他的《安德的游戏》囊括雨果奖、星云奖，1987年，其续集《死者代言人》再次包揽了这两个世界科幻文学的最高奖项。 2013年，其著名作品《安德的游戏》被搬上大银幕，再次引发世人卡德热潮。

奥森•斯科特•卡德是当今美国科幻界最炙手可热的人物之一。在美国科幻史上，从来没有人在两年内连续两次将“雨果”和“星云”两大科幻奖尽收囊中，直到卡德横空出世。1986年，他的《安德的游戏》囊括雨果奖、星云奖，1987年，其续集《死者代言人》再次包揽了这两个世界科幻文学的最高奖项。 2013年，其著名作品《安德的游戏》被搬上大银幕，再次引发世人卡德热潮。

劳拉·布朗（Laura Brown），美国康奈尔大学英文系教授、系主任，研究领域为18世纪英国文学与文化，担任美国18世纪研究学会主席。主要研究专著包括《帝国的终结：18世纪早期英国文学中的女性和意识形态》（Ends of Empire: Womenand Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature，康奈尔大学出版社1993年），《现代性的寓言：18世纪英国的文学与文化》（Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the EnglishEighteenth Century，康奈尔大学出版社2001年），《流浪狗和忧郁的猿：现代文学想象中的人和动物》（Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans ...(展开全部)

劳拉·布朗（Laura Brown），美国康奈尔大学英文系教授、系主任，研究领域为18世纪英国文学与文化，担任美国18世纪研究学会主席。主要研究专著包括《帝国的终结：18世纪早期英国文学中的女性和意识形态》（Ends of Empire: Womenand Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature，康奈尔大学出版社1993年），《现代性的寓言：18世纪英国的文学与文化》（Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the EnglishEighteenth Century，康奈尔大学出版社2001年），《流浪狗和忧郁的猿：现代文学想象中的人和动物》（Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans ...(展开全部)

It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired García Márquez's General Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and of the charismatic Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the man who might have been Colombia's J.F.K., gunned down on the brink of success in the presidential elections...(展开全部)