Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years’ absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of mon...(展开全部)

One of the few books to address the horror film from any kind of critical position. Unique - The first history of the horror film to approach it from a queer perspective. Written with detail and thoroughness - covers all eras of the horror film and correlates specific types of movie monsters to the historical social conditions which produced them. Explores how popular culture e...(展开全部)

One of China's most prominent contemporary philosophers reads and comments on one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition. In this book, one of contemporary China's most prominent philosophers, Li Zehou, explores one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition, the Analects of Confucius. While the book provides an introduction to the Analects...(展开全部)

Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and Eng...(展开全部)

Surekha Davies is a cultural historian and historian of science at Western Connecticut State University. Her interests include exploration, observational sciences, cultural encounters, monstrosity and the history of mentalities c.1400–1800. Formerly a British Library Curator and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, she is a Founding Editor of the series 'Maps, Spaces, Cultures' (B...(展开全部)

艾恩·斯图尔特 （Ian Stewart）博士，是英国伯恩学院（The Berne Institute）的联合院长。他是“欧洲人际沟通分析协会”（EATA）和“国际人际沟通分析协会”（ITAA）的认证的教学和督导分析师。1998年因其“在欧洲的杰出的TA工作”而获得EATA的金奖。 范恩·琼斯（Vann Joines）博士，“国际人际沟通分析协会”（ITAA）认证的教学和督导分析师。美国注册临床心理学家、美国认证国家团体心理治疗师、美国婚姻与家庭治疗协会临床成员与认证督导、美国东南部团体和家庭治疗研究所所长、国际再决定疗法协会创始成员之一。他将“再决定疗法”团体治疗工作坊带到了世界上28个国家。

Finding a job used to be simple. You’d show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you’d see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you’d call the company a week later to check in, but the basic approach was easy. And once you got a job, you would stay—often for decades. Now . . . well, it’s complicate...(展开全部)

In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, the billionaire who founded Netscape and Silicon Graphics and who now aims to turn the healthcare industry on its head with his new billion-dollar project. Lewis...(展开全部)

In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape - which launched the Information Ag...(展开全部)

范德凯（James C. VanderKam）是美国著名学者，于哈佛大学近东语言与文明系获得博士学位，现任教于圣母大学，学术领域为早期犹太教和希伯来圣经，从事死海古卷研究二十余年。已出版多部学术专著。 译者柳博赟，于北京大学英语系获得博士学位，贝勒大学宗教系访问学者，现任教于北京语言大学高级翻译学院，资深同声传译译员。参与翻译过道格拉斯、俄里根等著名学者的经典名著。