Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos, the first book focusing on premortem shrines in any era of Chinese history, places the institution at the intersection of politics and religion. When a local official left his post, grateful subjects housed an image of him in a temple, requiting his grace: that was the ideal model. By Ming times, the “living shrine” was legal,...(展开全部)

Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos, the first book focusing on premortem shrines in any era of Chinese history, places the institution at the intersection of politics and religion. When a local official left his post, grateful subjects housed an image of him in a temple, requiting his grace: that was the ideal model. By Ming times, the “living shrine” was legal,...(展开全部)

"Tongzhi," which translates into English as same purpose or same will, was once widely used to mean comrade. Since the 1990s, the word has been appropriated by the LGBT community in China and now refers to a broad range of people who do not espouse heteronormativity."Tongzhi Living," the first study of its kind, offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in th...(展开全部)

伦纳德·蒙洛迪诺（Leonard Mlodinow），这个名字你可能不熟悉，但你肯定知道斯蒂芬·霍金的《时间简史》和《大设计》——这两部著作都是霍金与伦纳德·蒙洛迪诺合著的。蒙洛迪诺是一名著名理论物理学家，1981年在马克斯-普朗克物理学与天体物理学研究所当研究员，主攻量子场论。1985年，他怀揣梦想，带着6000美元去好莱坞打拼，成为《星际迷航：下一代》等剧的编剧。1993年，他又进军游戏界，成为电脑游戏制作人和设计者，与斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格、罗宾·威廉姆斯和迪士尼公司协作制作的游戏斩获了数项大奖。他同时并没有耽误写作，著有热销书《醉汉的脚步》《潜意识》《费曼的彩虹》《世界之战》，其中《醉汉的脚步》获得“编辑推荐奖”、“年度影响力书籍”，并入围英国皇家学会图书奖。他也一直没有放弃理论物理学研究，以“业余物理学家”的身份，至今仍有论文发表。

Who was Yang Tinghe? Despite being one of Ming China’s most eminent officials, Yang and his career have long eluded scholarly study in the West. In this volume, Aaron Throness engages a trove of untapped Ming sources and secondary scholarship to recount Yang Tinghe’s political life, and in unprecedented detail. Throness explores how Yang, a pragmatic politician and conservative...(展开全部)

In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he...(展开全部)

No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is García Márquez’s shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca...(展开全部)

《沧桑阅尽话人生》(Living to Tell the Tale） 作者：加西亚•马尔克斯（Gabriel García Márquez） 哥伦比亚大作家、诺贝尔文学奖得主加西亚•马尔克斯计划中三卷本自传的首卷，去年出版后即成为整个西班牙语世界的最畅销书。英文版由伊迪丝•格罗斯曼(Edith Grossman)英译。在各媒体非小说类年度好书榜上，此书的推荐出奇一致。 《纽约时报书评》称，作者在书中忆及的种种古怪之人与事，诸如家宴上的鬼魂，在全国到处撒种、弄出成群私生子的男人，还有一个掘出先人尸骸，随家人不断迁居的家族，凡此种种，无不可据以写出伟大的小说，也令人觉得，他小说中代表性的"魔幻现实主义"也不那么魔幻了。《圣安东尼奥快报》上一位书评者说"这是个极好的迹象：当你阅读前30页时，甚至还没意识到该找个位子坐下来时，你已会惊讶于这本绝顶好书。"《乡...(展开全部)

In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he...(展开全部)

The Ming period of Chinese history is often depicted as one of cultural aridity, political despotism, and social stasis. Recent studies have shown that the arts continued to flourish, government remained effective, people enjoyed considerable mobility, and China served as a center of the global economy. This study goes further to argue that China’s perennial quest for cultural ...(展开全部)