Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Inspired by Bioy Casares's fas...(展开全部)

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored...(展开全部)

In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social world. Rooting his anal...(展开全部)

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In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social world. Rooting his analy...(展开全部)

Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish ‘national culture’; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...(展开全部)

"One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death". So begins THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. After the death of his own father, Auster discovers a 60-year-old family murder mystery that could account for the old man's elusive character. Later the book shifts from Auster's identity as son to his own...(展开全部)

作者簡介 亞凱迪．歐卓夫斯基Arkady Ostrovsky 出生於俄國的英籍記者，在莫斯科撰寫報導十五年，首先服務於《金融時報》，接著擔任《經濟學人》莫斯科分部主任。他在莫斯科研讀俄羅斯戲劇史，並獲劍橋大學英語文學博士學位。他將湯姆．史塔佩（Tom Stoppard）的舞台劇三部曲《烏托邦之岸》（The Coast of Utopia）譯成俄語，於俄國演出與出版。本書獲得二〇一六年的歐威爾獎，即評選傑出政治評論著作與報導的年度獎項。 譯者簡介 楊芩雯 做過記者和編輯，現為專職譯者。報導文學譯作有《普丁的國家》、《總統的人馬》、《柬埔寨：被詛咒的國度》。譯作《強尼上戰場》獲二○一五年中國時報開卷好書獎翻譯類。