In the Book and Sword, Louis Cha revives the legend about the great eighteenth-century Manchu Emperor Qianlong which claims that he was in fact not a Manchu but a Han Chinese as a result of a "baby swap." The novel is panoramic in scope and includes the fantastical elements for which Cha is well-known: secret societies, kungfu masters, a lost desert city guarded by wolf packs, ...(展开全部)

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)

鲁思·本尼迪克特(Ruth Benedict)1887年生于纽约。原姓富尔顿(Fulton)，其祖先曾参加美国独立战争。她本人大学时期主修英国文学。1919年入哥伦比亚大学研究人类学，是Franz Boas的学生，1923年获博士学位。1927年研究印第安部落的文化，写成《文化的类型》(Patterns of Culture，1934年出版)一书。1940年著《种族：科学与政治》(Race：Science and Politics)，批判种族歧视。第二次世界大战期间从事对罗马尼亚、荷兰、德国、泰国等国民族性的研究，而以对日本的研究，即《菊与刀》一书成就最大。战后，她继续在哥伦比亚大学参加“当代文化研究”，于1948年9月，病逝。

It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to pro...(展开全部)

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replacement for God. Engaging with a phenomenally wide range of ideas, issues, and thinkers from the Enlighte...(展开全部)

In the grand tradition of Paul Kennedy s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers comes this provocative history of world democracy, which begins with the ancient Myceans and ends in our fractious present. Overturning long-cherished notions, John Keane poses challenging questions: Did democracy actually begin in ancient Greece or earlier in Mesopotamia? Do the American and British...(展开全部)

The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: how did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling...(展开全部)

特里•伊格尔顿（Terry Eagleton，1943— ）西方当代著名文学理论家。从60年代末至今，伊格尔顿出版美学理论、文学批评著作十多种，如《莎士比亚与社会：莎士比亚戏剧论文集》《瓦尔特•本雅明，或革命的批评》《文学理论引论》和《审美意识形态》等。与美国的詹姆逊、德国的哈贝马斯并称为当代西方马克思主义理论界三巨头。 译者简介： 宋政超，就读于同济大学人文学院文艺学专业，现阶段主要研究方向为伊格尔顿悲剧思想。

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh’s career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, bu...(展开全部)