After completing the shooting of Sleeping by the Mississippi in 2002, Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to adopt a baby girl. While the courts processed paperwork, he and his wife spent two months in the capital city waiting to take their new baby home. “The baby’s birth mother gave the new parents a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. I hope that the hardness of...(展开全部)

After completing the shooting of Sleeping by the Mississippi in 2002, Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to adopt a baby girl. While the courts processed paperwork, he and his wife spent two months in the capital city waiting to take their new baby home. “The baby’s birth mother gave the new parents a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. I hope that the hardness of...(展开全部)

"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-"Corriere della Sera" "Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-"El Mundo" "Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of ...(展开全部)

From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult and dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is forgotten by everyone. Moving from a small...(展开全部)

The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same ...(展开全部)

The End of Days, a brilliant novel of contingency and fate, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Ha...(展开全部)

"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-"Corriere della Sera" "Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-"El Mundo" "Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of ...(展开全部)

约翰•麦克阿瑟（John MacArthur），今日著名的圣经牧师之一，作家。他是美国加州太阳谷“恩典社区教会”的主任牧师，恩主学院及神学院院长，著名的翻译经讲道传道人。继他父亲杰克•麦克阿瑟博士之后, 约翰是他的家族中连续第五代的牧师。他还负责“赐你恩典”机构，该机构事工包括制作全球广播节目，以及文字、录音带、网络圣经教导，该节目广播遍及英语国家，每年约有八百万人聆听学习他讲道的录音带。 他是许多畅销书籍的作者，其中以“麦克阿瑟圣经研究”系列最为著名。所著的《麦克阿瑟新约注释》，内容深入浅出，不仅为牧师、传道人、圣经教师预备讲章必读，也深受信徒喜爱，作为每日灵修的辅助资料。麦克阿瑟著有三十多本新约各书卷之注释、讲道及牧养、辅导等书籍。其中所著《释经讲道再探》（Rediscovering Expository Preaching）曾经被列为美国《传道...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house,...(展开全部)

From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel... Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest.  He's been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump.  It's part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedra...(展开全部)