According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in West Flanders. That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the adversary’s vital function first. Using poison gas signaled the pass...(展开全部)

In Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada in Buenos Aires as a point...(展开全部)

In Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada in Buenos Aires as a point...(展开全部)

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new steamy, STEMinist novella… It will take the frosty terrain of the Arctic to show these rival scientists that their chemistry burns hot. Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on th...(展开全部)

【作者】 莉奥诺拉·卡林顿（Leonora Carrington，1917—2011），墨西哥艺术家、作家，超现实主义运动的重要代表人物。1917年，卡林顿出生于一个富裕的英国家庭，少女时代先后被两所修道院学校开除；1937年，与超现实主义艺术家马克斯·恩斯特私奔，成为 巴黎艺术圈的宠儿；1940年，恩斯特遭纳粹逮捕，卡林顿精神濒临崩溃，被送往精神病院；从医院逃走后，卡林顿辗转去了美国和墨西哥，继续从事艺术创作，直至去世。 【译者】 郑楠，北京大学外国语学院西葡意语系西班牙语专业助理教授、博士研究生导师。本科毕业于北京大学外国语学院西班牙语系，2019年在纽约市立大学研究生院拉丁美洲、伊比利亚和拉美裔文化研究博士项目获拉丁美洲文学方向博士学位。研究方向为皮诺切特独裁及独裁后的智利文学与文化、现当代西班牙语美洲作家作品中的身份政治问题，以及西班牙语美洲...(展开全部)

More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite of impediments set up by the Chinese government. How did private...(展开全部)

More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This astonishing decline in poverty, the largest in history, coincided with the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy. Yet private enterprise in China emerged in spite of impediments set up by the Chinese government. How did private...(展开全部)

There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. In "The Forever War", award-winning "New York Times" correspondent Dexter Filkins does not analyse how these wars happened and why, or where they have succeeded or failed; instead, he captures with searing immediacy, the human experience - and tr...(展开全部)