Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel—based on actual events—about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. T...(展开全部)

(Beville's) English translation has been highly lauded... -- Yomiuri Newspaper, Aug. 18th, 2002 For whatever reason, certain poets become spokespersons for their age. Chuya seems to have won that role... -- Leza Lowitz, The Japan Times, May 12th, 2002 I imagine this was tough work since rhythm is central to Chuya's poetry. (This translation) is truly wonderful. -- The Nishinipp...(展开全部)

(Beville's) English translation has been highly lauded... -- Yomiuri Newspaper, Aug. 18th, 2002 For whatever reason, certain poets become spokespersons for their age. Chuya seems to have won that role... -- Leza Lowitz, The Japan Times, May 12th, 2002 I imagine this was tough work since rhythm is central to Chuya's poetry. (This translation) is truly wonderful. -- The Nishinipp...(展开全部)

For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Canada to Sweden to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest species survive at these latitudes including the ic...(展开全部)

'It's such a great read...I got to 800 pages, and I slowed myself down because I didn't want it to end.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that upd...(展开全部)

'It's such a great read...I got to 800 pages, and I slowed myself down because I didn't want it to end.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

【作者简介】 罗伯特·D.卡普兰（Robert D. Kaplan，1952—）美国著名地缘政治专家，18本外交政策和游记类畅销书作者，两度被《外交政策》评为“全球100位顶尖思想者”之一。他的作品影响了克林顿和小布什两任美国总统的军事决策，《大西洋月刊》资深主笔、知名记者，现任欧亚集团高级顾问，曾任新美国安全中心高级研究员和美国五角大楼国防政策委员会委员。 卡普兰游历了近70个国家和地区，对世界政治局势和地缘政治深有体会，擅长运用游记的写作手法处理新闻和政治议题，其作品兼具文学性与地缘政治分析的严肃性，他与塞缪尔·亨廷顿、保罗·肯尼迪和弗朗西斯·福山并称“被最广泛阅读的描绘后冷战世界的作家”。其代表作有《无政府时代的来临》《巴尔干两千年》《季风》《即将到来的地缘战争》《世界的尽头》《东进鞑靼》《马可 ·波罗世界的回归》《荒野帝国》等。 ··· 【译...(展开全部)

Having drawn a startlingly prescient portrait of the Bosnian catastrophe in his bestseller, Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now travels more widely and ambitiously. In this gritty tour de force of travel writing and political reportage, he covers an arc from West Africa to Southeast Asia, across a world in which nation-states are giving way to warring nationalities and where metas...(展开全部)