Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain exp...(展开全部)

The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa’s most important writers Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has ...(展开全部)

Literature Guides A complete guide to teaching My Side of the Mountain. Includes an author biography, background information, summaries, thought-provoking discussion questions, as well as creative, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles that motivate students.

Literature Guides A complete guide to teaching My Side of the Mountain. Includes an author biography, background information, summaries, thought-provoking discussion questions, as well as creative, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles that motivate students.

Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T'an-ch'eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy ...(展开全部)

Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a "dark continent," unfathomable and unapproachable; its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in mascul...(展开全部)

曼努埃尔·普伊格（Manuel Puig，1932—1990） 阿根廷著名作家，出生于潘帕斯大草原上的比耶加斯将军镇，一个他自称“什么都没有的地方”，因而他从小便喜欢泡在电影院里，尤爱好莱坞电影。1956年，普伊格去罗马学习电影，之后他教过西班牙语、意大利语，洗过盘子，在法国航空做过小职员，他一生中大部分时间都在他乡流亡。1990年逝世于墨西哥。 普伊格经常说：“不是我选择了文学，而是文学选择了我。”他本想成为一名导演，或者电影编剧，但均以失败告终，于是逐渐转向文学写作。他一生共创作了《蜘蛛女之吻》《丽塔?海沃斯的背叛》《布宜诺斯艾利斯事件》等八部长篇小说。《蜘蛛女之吻》是普伊格最为知名的小说，同名电影获得四项奥斯卡提名，出演主角莫利纳的美国演员威廉·赫特收获了奥斯卡最佳男演员及戛纳电影节最佳男演员奖。

Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T'an-ch'eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy ...(展开全部)

曼努埃尔·普伊格（Manuel Puig，1932—1990） 阿根廷著名作家，出生于潘帕斯大草原上的比耶加斯将军镇，一个他自称“什么都没有的地方”，因而他从小便喜欢泡在电影院里，尤爱好莱坞电影。1956年，普伊格去罗马学习电影，之后他教过西班牙语、意大利语，洗过盘子，在法国航空做过小职员，他一生中大部分时间都在他乡流亡。1990年逝世于墨西哥。 普伊格经常说：“不是我选择了文学，而是文学选择了我。”他本想成为一名导演，或者电影编剧，但均以失败告终，于是逐渐转向文学写作。他一生共创作了《蜘蛛女之吻》《丽塔?海沃斯的背叛》《布宜诺斯艾利斯事件》等八部长篇小说。《蜘蛛女之吻》是普伊格最为知名的小说，同名电影获得四项奥斯卡提名，出演主角莫利纳的美国演员威廉·赫特收获了奥斯卡最佳男演员及戛纳电影节最佳男演员奖。

作者簡介 彼得‧Peter Boardman 彼得．博德曼出生於1950年聖誕節，其後成為英國最受敬重的高海拔登山家之一。他曾是凱恩戈姆國家公園格蘭莫爾山屋（Glenmore Lodge）的登山指導員，也是英國登山協會的全國事務官，之後被任命為瑞士萊辛（Leysin）國際登山學校總監。 他是1975年克里斯．鮑寧頓聖母峰遠征隊的一員，1976年他與喬．塔斯克成功登上難度幾近無法攀越的強卡邦峰，接著又攀登了干城章嘉峰（Kangchenjunga），並且嘗試攻克K2的峰頂，但惡劣天氣加上體力耗竭而功敗垂成。 隨後是1981年的公格爾峰（Mount Kongur），並在1982年3月參加克里斯．鮑寧頓、喬．塔斯克和迪克．阮修的小型遠征隊，他試圖首攀高難度的聖母峰東北脊，途中與喬．塔斯克兩人不幸喪命。 彼得和喬留下了兩則傳奇。一則是他們偉大的努力，以大膽、輕...(展开全部)