There is a true fascination with all things miniature and with the skills involved in creating a miniature work of art. Speaking of such works, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss remarked that "all miniatures seem to have an intrinsic aesthetic quality." And who could fail to be beguiled by an exquisite Elizabethan miniature painting, an intricately carved Japanese netsuke, the...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their fami...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their fami...(展开全部)

Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complie...(展开全部)

Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complie...(展开全部)

Political change doesn't always begin with a bang; it often starts with just a whisper. From the discussions around kitchen tables that led to the dismantling of the Soviet bloc to the more recent emergence of Internet initiatives such as MoveOn.org and Redeem the Vote that are revolutionizing the American political landscape, consequential political life develops in small spac...(展开全部)

Political change doesn't always begin with a bang; it often starts with just a whisper. From the discussions around kitchen tables that led to the dismantling of the Soviet bloc to the more recent emergence of Internet initiatives such as MoveOn.org and Redeem the Vote that are revolutionizing the American political landscape, consequential political life develops in small spac...(展开全部)

How Zoologists Organize Things unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists – revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn. Long before Darwin, our ancestors were obsessed with the visual similarities and differences between the animals.

克莱尔•吉根 （1968— ） 生于爱尔兰威克洛郡一个大家庭，是家中最小的孩子。十七岁时远赴美国路易斯安那州新奥尔良，在洛约拉大学主修英语和政治学，一九九二年回到爱尔兰，在威尔士加迪夫大学生活一年，获创意写作硕士学位，并在威尔士大学教授本科生。 故事发表于《纽约客》《格兰塔》《巴黎评论》和《美国最佳故事》。曾获得威廉•特雷弗奖、鲁尼爱尔兰文学奖、奥利弗•库克奖和二〇〇九年戴维•伯恩斯爱尔兰写作奖。其他奖项包括休•伦纳德奖学金、麦考利奖学金、马丁•希利奖、基尔肯尼奖和汤姆•加仑奖。两次获得弗朗西斯•麦克马纳斯奖，同时是温盖特奖学金获得者。都柏林圣三一学院和剑桥大学彭布罗克学院选择吉根作为二〇二一年布里纳•斯汤顿访问学者（Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow）。 二〇〇九年，小说《寄养》获得由美国作家理查德•福特担任评委的戴维...(展开全部)

Destined to be a modern classic from “an original and a canonical presence in Irish fiction” (Colm Tóibín), Small Things Like These is Claire Keegan’s landmark new novel, the tale of one man’s courage — and a remarkable portrait of love and family. It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, who is fa...(展开全部)