Book Description Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. It was banned for obscenity in 1928....(展开全部)

Book Description Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. It was banned for obscenity in 1928....(展开全部)

诺贝特•埃利亚斯（Norbert Elias, 1897—1990），德裔社会学家，20世纪百科全书式人物，被誉为“21世纪的社会学家”。他出生在当时西里西亚地区的布雷斯劳（现称弗罗茨瓦夫，现属波兰）的一个犹太富商家庭，早年曾兼修医学与哲学，取得博士学位后转攻社会学，先后师从韦伯和曼海姆。纳粹上台后，他先是流亡巴黎，后赴英国继续学术研究。1939年，他的名著《文明的进程》首次出版。1940年，他曾由于德国人身份而被关入拘留营八个月时间。战后，他在英国、德国、荷兰等地的院校任教。他是反思性历史社会学家的代表，通过自我反思的追问来理解现代性，致力于细致的经验研究和长时段历史研究，代表作还有《宫廷社会》《个体的社会》《莫扎特的成败》《符号理论》等。 译者：索马里，曾供职于《GQ智族》《彭博商业周刊》，现为99读书人副总编辑，译有《一个自杀者的传说》《记忆之...(展开全部)

A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories This is the first major collection of short stories from the legendary German–Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892–1940). Benjamin is best known for his groundbreaking studies on culture and literature, including the collections Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project, but here for the ...(展开全部)

The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler - the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years - has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young prot g, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mis...(展开全部)

In The Well of Stars , Hugo award-nominated author Robert Reed has written a stunning sequel to his acclaimed novel Marrow . The Great Ship, so vast that it contains within its depths a planet that lay undiscovered for generations, has cruised through the universe for untold billions of years. After a disastrous exploration of the planet, Marrow, the Ship's captains face an inc...(展开全部)

In The Well of Stars , Hugo award-nominated author Robert Reed has written a stunning sequel to his acclaimed novel Marrow . The Great Ship, so vast that it contains within its depths a planet that lay undiscovered for generations, has cruised through the universe for untold billions of years. After a disastrous exploration of the planet, Marrow, the Ship's captains face an inc...(展开全部)

The Great Ship is home to a multitude of alien races and a near-immortal crew. They have toured the Milky Way for millennia, the best and the brightest from a thousand worlds, but the true purpose of the Ship has remained hidden. Now, time is running out. The huge spacecraft is heading for the dark, immense, region of space known as the Ink Well, and the only entity in the univ...(展开全部)

A comedic memoir about fandom, fame, and other embarrassments from the life of a New York Times bestseller What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine's funniest and most revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of unexpected answers. When a sudden medical incident lands Tomine in the...(展开全部)

A comedic memoir about fandom, fame, and other embarrassments from the life of a New York Times bestseller What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine's funniest and most revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of unexpected answers. When a sudden medical incident lands Tomine in the...(展开全部)