John J. Stephan attended Harvard and the University of London. From 1970 until his retirement in 2001, he taught Japanese and Russian history at the University of Hawaii, with visiting appointments at Oxford, Waseda, Hokkaido, Stanford, Tufts, Moscow, and Khabarovsk. His books about contested borderlands and contagious illusions have been translated into Russian, Chinese, and J...(展开全部)

方德万，(Hans J. van de Ven)，荷兰人，1980年毕业于荷兰莱顿大学中文系，入美国哈佛大学师从孔飞力研习中国近代史。1987年获博士学位。随后任教于英国剑桥大学。现为该校第10任汉学教授。 主要著作有《从朋友到同志：中国共产党的初创》（1991年），现研究项目为中国近代海关史。

方德万，(Hans J. van de Ven)，荷兰人，1980年毕业于荷兰莱顿大学中文系，入美国哈佛大学师从孔飞力研习中国近代史。1987年获博士学位。随后任教于英国剑桥大学。现为该校第10任汉学教授。 主要著作有《从朋友到同志：中国共产党的初创》（1991年），现研究项目为中国近代海关史。

The Exile’s Return: Orson Scott Card’s Ender in Exile By Beth Meacham, Executive Editor I have had a very long relationship with Ender Wiggin. I met him first in 1977, in an amazing novelette in Analog. I was working in a bookstore in those days, the Science Fiction Shop in New York City. A few years later, I started working for the Ace sf list—and was delighted to discover tha...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis - following on from his bestselling "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" - Slavoj Zizek argues that the liberal idea of the end of history, declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice. After the collapse of the liberal-democratic political utopia, on the morning of 9/11, came the collapse of the econom...(展开全部)

At first, Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted down. But things were quiet now, had been quiet for a year, and it was plain to him now that they would not bring him back at all, that he was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconveniently flesh-and-blood person. At the close of ENDER'S GAME, Andrew Wig...(展开全部)

The direct sequel to Ender's Game! Thirteen year-old Ender Wiggin has saved mankind from an alien threat. His reward? Exile. Branded a monster by those who feel threatened by his military genius, Ender is suddenly a hero without a home. Consumed with guilt, Ender must face his own demons and the people who are bent on stripping him of power. Based on the bestselling novel by sc...(展开全部)

By focusing on the story of Hector, James M. Redfield presents an imaginative perspective not only on the Iliad but also on the whole of Homeric culture. In an expansive discussion informed by a reinterpretation of Aristotle's Poetics and a reflection on the human meaning of narrative art, the analysis of Hector leads to an inquiry into the fundamental features of Homeric cultu...(展开全部)