As far back as we know, there have been individuals incapacitated by memories that have filled them with sadness and remorse, fright and horror, or a sense of irreparable loss. Only recently, however, have people tormented with such recollections been diagnosed as suffering from "post-traumatic stress disorder". Here Allan Young traces this malady, particularly as it is suffere...(展开全部)

保罗·奥斯特，1947年出生于新泽西的纽瓦克市，集小说家、诗人、剧作家、译者、电影导演等多重身份于一身，被视为是美国当代最勇于创新的小说家之一。他1947年出生于新泽西州的纽渥克市，从哥伦比亚大学毕业后曾在法国生活数年。年轻时过着漂泊无定的生活，不断尝试各种工作，甚至曾参加舞团的排练，只因为“观看男男女女在空间中移动让他充满了陶醉感”。 主要作品有小说《纽约三部曲》、《幻影书》、《在地图结束的地方》、《命运之音》、《海怪》以及回忆录《孤独及其所创造的》等，曾获获法国美第奇文学奖，美国约翰·克林顿文学杰出贡献奖，西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王子文学奖，作品被翻译成30种文字，他也是每年冲击诺贝尔文学奖的有力人选之一。 他编剧并导演的电影作品有《烟》、《面有忧色》和《桥上的露露》，其中《烟》在1996年获得柏林电影节银熊奖和最佳编剧奖，并受邀成为1997年戛纳影展...(展开全部)

保罗·奥斯特，1947年出生于新泽西的纽瓦克市，集小说家、诗人、剧作家、译者、电影导演等多重身份于一身，被视为是美国当代最勇于创新的小说家之一。他1947年出生于新泽西州的纽渥克市，从哥伦比亚大学毕业后曾在法国生活数年。年轻时过着漂泊无定的生活，不断尝试各种工作，甚至曾参加舞团的排练，只因为“观看男男女女在空间中移动让他充满了陶醉感”。 主要作品有小说《纽约三部曲》、《幻影书》、《在地图结束的地方》、《命运之音》、《海怪》以及回忆录《孤独及其所创造的》等，曾获获法国美第奇文学奖，美国约翰·克林顿文学杰出贡献奖，西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王子文学奖，作品被翻译成30种文字，他也是每年冲击诺贝尔文学奖的有力人选之一。 他编剧并导演的电影作品有《烟》、《面有忧色》和《桥上的露露》，其中《烟》在1996年获得柏林电影节银熊奖和最佳编剧奖，并受邀成为1997年戛纳影展...(展开全部)

In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies...(展开全部)

Despite checking off the boxes of worldly accomplishments, most high-achieving women are secretly dissatisfied. They feel stuck in lives that look perfect on the outside, yet on the inside, they’re unfulfilled, plagued by the nagging feeling that there’s got to be more. They feel guilty and ungrateful for feeling trapped in lives that are so good. They disown their pain, or num...(展开全部)

Despite checking off the boxes of worldly accomplishments, most high-achieving women are secretly dissatisfied. They feel stuck in lives that look perfect on the outside, yet on the inside, they’re unfulfilled, plagued by the nagging feeling that there’s got to be more. They feel guilty and ungrateful for feeling trapped in lives that are so good. They disown their pain, or num...(展开全部)

INVENTING THE MIDDLE AGES The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth century. The medieval world was not simply excavated through ...(展开全部)

Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began to assess the legacy of the avant-gardes in order to construct a coherent narrative of modernism's development, they were inevitably influenced by contempora...(展开全部)

Reads L to R (Western Style). In a perfect world, there is no escape In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It do...(展开全部)