庫佩勒斯 Couperus, Louis Marie Anne 1880年荷蘭文藝復興時期最偉大的小說家。生長在巴達維亞(今雅加達)。返回歐洲後，定居義大利。

庫佩勒斯 Couperus, Louis Marie Anne 1880年荷蘭文藝復興時期最偉大的小說家。生長在巴達維亞(今雅加達)。返回歐洲後，定居義大利。

Farouks Leben ist am Ende, weil er verloren hat, was ihm am meisten bedeutete. Lampys Leben sollte gerade so richtig anfangen, doch dann ließ ihn seine große Liebe Chloé einfach stehen. John hat sein Leben lang andere betrogen und hofft nun verzweifelt auf Gottes Vergebung. In einer kleinen Stadt in Irland werden diese drei Männer sich auf unwahrscheinliche Weise begegnen. Mit ...(展开全部)

Mit Büchern wie VERTRAUTE FREMDE und DER SPAZIERENDE MANN, aber auch seinen farbigen Arbeiten VENEDIG sowie IM JAHRTAUSENDWALD hat Jiro Taniguchi unvergessliche Werke geschaffen. Nun gibt es eine neue Zusammenstellung unterschiedlicher Kurzgeschichten um mysteriöse Gefährten, poetische Begegnungen und unruhige Geister - alle bisher im deutschsprachigen Raum unveröffentlicht.

Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial resources. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "world class" business center has...(展开全部)

In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—exploded, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans o...(展开全部)

In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—exploded, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans o...(展开全部)

Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, "Parting the Waters" is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn...(展开全部)

In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Ca...(展开全部)

In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Ca...(展开全部)