“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the “narrative turn” in contemporary criti...(展开全部)

“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the “narrative turn” in contemporary criti...(展开全部)

The discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 eventually led to a craze for radium products in the 1920s until their widespread use proved lethal for consumers, patients, and medical practitioners alike. Radium infiltrated American culture, Maria Rentetzi reveals, not only because of its potential to treat cancer but because it was transformed from a scientific obje...(展开全部)

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, do...(展开全部)

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, do...(展开全部)

弗里德里希·A.冯·哈耶克，法学博士、政治学博士（维也纳），经济学博士（伦敦），奥地利萨尔茨堡大学客座教授（1970-1974年），奥地利经济研究所所长（1927-1931年），维也纳大学经济系讲师（1929-1931年），伦敦大学图克经济科学与统计学教授（1931-1950年），芝加哥大学社会与道德科学教授（1950-1962年），西德弗莱堡大学经济学教授（1962-1968年）。1974年，他被授予诺贝尔经济学奖。 哈耶克教授非常重要的出版作品有：《价格与生产》（1931）、《货币理论和经济周期》（1933）、《资本的纯理论》（1941）、《通往奴役之路》（1944）、《个人主义与经济秩序》（1948）、《科学的反革命》（1952），以及《自由宪章》（1960）。他新的作品收录于文集《哲学、政治学与经济学研究》（1967）和《法律、立法与自由》（...(展开全部)

From Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. With her trademark spare, crystalline prose—a voice infused with “intimate, fragile, desperate humanness”...(展开全部)

（1）编者简介 妮可·马修斯（Nicole Matthews），澳大利亚悉尼麦考瑞大学媒介、批评和文化研究讲师，著有《喜剧政治》（Comic Politics, 2002）。 妮基安娜·穆迪（Nickianne Moody），英国利物浦约翰摩尔斯大学媒介与文化研究的负责人。编有《性别化的图书馆史》（Gendering Library History，2000）、《西班牙通俗小说》（Spanish Popular Fiction，2004）等多部论文集。 （2）译者简介 王苇，文学博士，南京师范大学外国语学院讲师。主要研究方向为英美文学与女性文学、文学翻译等。出版专著《西方女性小说经典导读》（合著）、译著《与阿列克斯一路同行》，在《当代外国文学》等刊物发表学术论文十余篇。