A legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends. “How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf’s novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but her question was asked again and again in the course of a century where things changed fast and changed all the time. The century br...(展开全部)

A legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends. “How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf’s novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but her question was asked again and again in the course of a century where things changed fast and changed all the time. The century br...(展开全部)

恰克•帕拉尼克，1962年出生于美国，毕业于俄勒冈大学新闻学院，三十多岁时开始写作，是一名特立独行的当代小说天才，在全世界范围内拥有大量忠实的粉丝。主要作品有《肠子》、《隐形怪物》、《搏击俱乐部》、《窒息》、《摇篮曲》、《日记》、《逃亡者与难民》等。这些作品糅合了讽刺、戏剧性、恐怖等元素，呈现出一种独特的超现实主义黑色幽默。其中，《搏击俱乐部》被导演大卫•芬奇改编成同名电影，他也因此得到了来自全世界的关注和认可。

Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling St...(展开全部)

This book contains several contributions on the most outstanding events in the development of twentieth century mathematics, representing a wide variety of specialities in which Russian and Soviet mathematicians played a considerable role. The articles are written in an informal style, from mathematical philosophy to the description of the development of ideas, personal memorie...(展开全部)

This volume provides an outstanding survey of the major political philosophers of the twentieth century.

This book contains several contributions on the most outstanding events in the development of twentieth century mathematics, representing a wide variety of specialities in which Russian and Soviet mathematicians played a considerable role. The articles are written in an informal style, from mathematical philosophy to the description of the development of ideas, personal memorie...(展开全部)

By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction's unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. How does Chinese fiction express the desire for freedom as well as fears of attendant responsibilities and abuses? How does it depict struggles for a...(展开全部)

One of our most brilliant historians, Tony Judt brings the past century vividly to life in this unprecedented and original history. Structured as a series of intimate conversations between Judt and his friend and fellow historian Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century presents the triumphs and the failures of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals and thei...(展开全部)

Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered questions. They needed to talk to one another, and the time was short. This is a book abo...(展开全部)