The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the nation’s political future. It offers a characterization of the present, a blueprint of the future, and the image of the heroes needed to get there. With the standing it gained during its meteoric rise, the political novel helped elev...(展开全部)

The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the nation’s political future. It offers a characterization of the present, a blueprint of the future, and the image of the heroes needed to get there. With the standing it gained during its meteoric rise, the political novel helped elev...(展开全部)

毕嘉珍（Maggie Bickford），美国布朗（Brown）大学艺术与建筑史系教授，主要致力于宋元时期中国画的研究。主要著作有Ink Plum：The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre，剑桥大学出版社，1996年（获美国亚洲研究学会列文森图书奖）；Bones of Jade，Soul of Ice，the Flowering Plumin Chinese Art，耶鲁大学艺术馆，1985年（获美国博物馆协会优异奖）；与伊沛霞（Patricia Buckley Ebrey）合编EmperorHuizongandLateNorthernSongChina：thePoliticsofCultureandtheCultureofPolitics，哈佛大学出版社，2006年。

Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is 'the religion of the end of religion'. In "The Disenchantment of the World", Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's cha...(展开全部)

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours," comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scutt...(展开全部)

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours," comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scutt...(展开全部)

Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel, a German bestseller widely heralded as an exemplar of "new" German fiction, injects musty history with shots of whimsy and irony. Humboldt voyages to South America to map the Orinoco River, climb the Chimborazo peak in Ecuador and ...(展开全部)

Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the present day. Steven Miles places Chinese migrants and their families at the center of his narrative through a series of engaging case studies taking readers from the heart of Ming China to the global property markets of the twenty-first ce...(展开全部)

Providing a broad introduction to the area, A World History of Chinese Literature maps the field of Chinese literature across its various worlds, looking both within – at the world of Chinese literature, its history, linguistic, cultural, local, and regional specificities – and without – at the way Chinese literature has circulated throughout the world. The thematic focus allow...(展开全部)

Description Sophie's World is a novel which presents a comprehensive history of western philosophy through the story of a philosophy tutor teaching a philosophy course to a girl named Sophie Amundsen. This book is an excellent primer for people who have never learned philosophy; it also helps people who have forgotten everything they learned about philosophy, and desire to “acq...(展开全部)