Although there is scarcely more than a mention of homosexuality in his scholarly writings, Michel Foucault, who died of AIDS in 1984, has become a powerful source of both personal and political inspiration to an entire generation of gay activists? Offering a no-holds barred rebuke to recent criticism of Foucault by Camille Paglia, Richard Mohr, biographer James Miller, and othe...(展开全部)

Although there is scarcely more than a mention of homosexuality in his scholarly writings, Michel Foucault, who died of AIDS in 1984, has become a powerful source of both personal and political inspiration to an entire generation of gay activists? Offering a no-holds barred rebuke to recent criticism of Foucault by Camille Paglia, Richard Mohr, biographer James Miller, and othe...(展开全部)

David M. Halperin, Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

First published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory – now available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English translation. Among the most important works ever to address the relationship between homosexuality, homophobia and capitalism, Mieli's essay continues to pose a radical challenge to today...(展开全部)

东野圭吾（1958- ），1958年2月4日生于大阪府大阪市生野区，日本著名作家。 大学毕业后成为日本电装株式会社的技术人员。一边工作，一边创作推理小说。 1985年以校园青春推理小说《放学后》（放課後）获第31届江户川乱步奖正式出道。以27岁的年龄获得大奖，令其创作信心大增，遂毅然辞职奔赴东京，开始了自己的职业作家的道路。 1998年以《秘密》获第52届日本推理作家协会奖（长篇部门），并改编成同名电影，由广末凉子和小林薰主演。 1999年推出时序跨越十九年，细腻描写主角与周遭人物的犯罪小说《白夜行》之后，风格越见圆熟，作品质地进入了全新的境界。 2006年以《嫌疑犯X的献身》横扫日本推理小说三大排行榜——“这本推理小说了不起！”、“周刊文春推理小说BEST10”、"本格推理小说 BEST10”，并同时拿下第6届本格推理小说大奖（小说部门）和代表日本...(展开全部)

东野圭吾（1958- ），1958年2月4日生于大阪府大阪市生野区，日本著名作家。 大学毕业后成为日本电装株式会社的技术人员。一边工作，一边创作推理小说。 1985年以校园青春推理小说《放学后》（放課後）获第31届江户川乱步奖正式出道。以27岁的年龄获得大奖，令其创作信心大增，遂毅然辞职奔赴东京，开始了自己的职业作家的道路。 1998年以《秘密》获第52届日本推理作家协会奖（长篇部门），并改编成同名电影，由广末凉子和小林薰主演。 1999年推出时序跨越十九年，细腻描写主角与周遭人物的犯罪小说《白夜行》之后，风格越见圆熟，作品质地进入了全新的境界。 2006年以《嫌疑犯X的献身》横扫日本推理小说三大排行榜——“这本推理小说了不起！”、“周刊文春推理小说BEST10”、"本格推理小说 BEST10”，并同时拿下第6届本格推理小说大奖（小说部门）和代表日本...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers. Saint Augustine follows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequen...(展开全部)

For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established "emotional r...(展开全部)