"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books

"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books

What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside. But when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favourite podcast, she discovers a new freedom. He unlocks the door to Real Frances and ...(展开全部)

It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth. The water of the polar ice cap, the most important resource for all the Mars colonies, is jointly controlled by the US, China, Japan and Russia, and doled out to the second-tier colonizing groups (Europe, Canada, Australia, India) only grud...(展开全部)

As a successor to his Booker-nominated novel, Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah's fifth book, Admiring Silence, presents the despair of being torn from one's roots. Gurnah's unnamed narrator flees to England as a teenager to escape the violent political rule of his native island in Zanzibar. There he lives for nearly twenty years in suburban comfort with an Englishwoman and holds a r...(展开全部)

From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling novel set in the near future about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event. Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of Covid-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer...(展开全部)

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickof...(展开全部)

An exploration of the relationship between literature and life, this study examines the effect on readers of "suicidal literature"—novels and poems that depict, and sometimes glorify, the act of suicide. Beginning with a discussion of the growing incidence of suicide in American culture, Jeffrey Berman investigates the portrayal of suicide in the works of four authors who later...(展开全部)

克叶尔·埃瑞克·鲁德斯坦（Kjell Erik Rudestam）,博士，加州圣巴巴拉菲尔丁研究生大学学术副主任。曾任多伦多约克大学心理学教授，获得奥勒冈大学心理学博士学位。他著有《自我改变的方法》《实验组的理论与实践》《如何对待多问题家庭》（与马克•弗兰克尔合著）、《你的统计咨询师：数据分析问题解答》（与雷•牛顿合著）；其他著作还有《网上学习手册》（与朱迪•里德合著）、《分布式学习百科全书》（与安娜•迪•斯戴法诺和罗伯特•西沃曼合著），并在专业刊物上发表多篇论文。他的研究兴趣包括心理治疗和变化过程、自杀、家庭与组织系统等。他是执业临床心理医师、美国心理学协会理事、美国职业心理（临床）考试委员会证书持有人。 雷·R.牛顿（Rae R.Newton），博士，加州大学富乐敦分校社会学系名誉教授。目前担任加州圣巴巴拉菲尔丁研究生大学顾问，是阿兰•利特朗尼克...(展开全部)

Like the previous editions of this bestselling text, Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, Third Edition offers readers guidance that other dissertation guides often miss, from ways to improve one's writing, to identifying one's learning preferences, to dealing with emotional blocks. Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, the autho...(展开全部)