From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the nightmarish library of internationally acclaimed, best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination.

'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, h...(展开全部)

Description is the novelistic technique charged with establishing a common world, but in the early twentieth century, there was little agreement about how a common world could be known and represented. Zhang argues that the protagonists in her study responded by shifting description away from visualizing objects to revealing relations—social, formal, and experiential—between di...(展开全部)

Description is the novelistic technique charged with establishing a common world, but in the early twentieth century, there was little agreement about how a common world could be known and represented. Zhang argues that the protagonists in her study responded by shifting description away from visualizing objects to revealing relations—social, formal, and experiential—between di...(展开全部)

Famous the world over for the creative brilliance of his insights into the physical world, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the nonscientist. QED--the edited version of four lectures on quantum electrodynamics that Feynman gave to the general public at UCLA as part of the Alix G. Mautner ...(展开全部)

Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here, Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED (namely quantum electrodynamics), that part of quantum field theory describing the interactions of light with cha...(展开全部)

Famous the world over for the creative brilliance of his insights into the physical world, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the nonscientist. QED--the edited version of four lectures on quantum electrodynamics that Feynman gave to the general public at UCLA as part of the Alix G. Mautner ...(展开全部)

Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here, Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED (namely quantum electrodynamics), that part of quantum field theory describing the interactions of light with cha...(展开全部)

In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala’ refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that ar...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 蔡九迪（Judith T. Zeitlin），1988年获得哈佛大学博士学位，现任芝加哥大学东亚语言文明系讲座教授，主要研究方向为明清文学、戏剧和视觉文化。著有《异史氏：蒲松龄与中国文言小说》《芳魂：明末清初中国文学中的女鬼与性别》《蔡九迪自选集》等。目前，正与中国作曲家合作创作《聊斋》题材歌剧，并计划开展《聊斋志异》全书的英译工作。 【译者简介】 任增强，文学博士，山东大学儒学高等研究院副教授，国家重点文化工程“全球汉籍合璧工程”研究编编辑室主任，兼任文化与旅游部–北京语言大学共建“中国文化对外翻译与传播研究中心”研究员，全国高校海外汉学研究学会理事，主要研究方向为海外汉学与汉籍。出版著作有《英美聊斋学研究》和《中国文化概要》（英文版）。围绕汉学与汉籍发表论文多篇，部分文章被《新华文摘》《中国社会科学文摘》以及人大复印资料等摘编转载。...(展开全部)