<b>A schoolteacher fights to prove that her father’s suicide was actually murder</b><br /><br /> Ann hasn’t seen her mother in 3 years, and she doesn’t miss her at all. But without warning, Elaine shows up on her daughter’s doorstep, dead broke and hungry for scotch. Ann’s father has just come into an inheritance, and Elaine wants every penny. After a few drinks, she stumbles o...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 【美】奎迈• 安东尼•阿皮亚是美国国家人文奖、普林斯顿大学人文科学特殊成就奖以及美国对外关系委员会亚瑟•罗斯图书奖、布兰迪斯大学新近设立的约瑟夫•B.与托比•吉特勒奖等重要学术奖项的获得者，他是美国笔会主席，又是劳伦斯•S.洛克菲勒大学的哲学教授和普林斯顿大学人类价值中心的哲学教授。他的著述包括：《世界主义》、《荣誉法则》、《在父亲的房子里：文化哲学里的非洲》、《神思：当代哲学导论》、《身份认同之伦理学》等。 【译者简介】 苗华建，供职于北京外国语大学日本学研究中心，迄今翻译作品十余部，代表性作品有《荣誉法则》、《信息崇拜》、《天空中的圆周率》、《淑女与熊猫》等。

This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century, as a means of understanding the complex world of today. Arguing that we concentrate too much on what makes us different rather than recognising our common h...(展开全部)

“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Kwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine , challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations . Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of ...(展开全部)

In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced - sometimes successful, sometimes not - to bring his projects to fruition. Part...(展开全部)

In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced - sometimes successful, sometimes not - to bring his projects to fruition. Part...(展开全部)

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Th...(展开全部)

The world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the mid...(展开全部)

With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her career, Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction, unparalleled ...(展开全部)

introduction by Mona Simpson