A House Divided , the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons , is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His counsin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sis...(展开全部)

Unabridged on mp3 audio disk. How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squ...(展开全部)

A man returns to his native China to find upheaval in both his homeland and his family in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son of a famous general and grandson of the patriarch of The Good Earth, leaves for America to...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 吉奥乔·阿甘本（1942—），意大利哲学界和激进政治理论界的领袖人物。他早年任教于意大利的马切拉塔大学和维罗纳大学，之后在威尼斯建筑大学、巴黎的国际哲学研究院、瑞士萨斯斐的欧洲研究生院和瑞士的门德里西奥建筑学院担任教职。另外，他还是美国西北大学与加州大学伯克利分校的客座教授。 阿甘本深受海德格尔和本雅明思想的熏陶，曾参加过海德格尔关于黑格尔和赫拉克利特的研讨班，主持过本雅明著作意大利译本的翻译工作。他对欧陆哲学、政治思想、宗教研究以及文学和艺术的融会贯通，使他成为我们时代极具挑战性的思想家，其著作已对很多学科产生了重要影响。代表作另有《神圣人》《剩余的时间》《例外状态》《万物的签名》《奥斯维辛的残余》等。 【作者简介】 蓝江，湖北荆州人，现为南京大学哲学系教授，马克思主义社会理论研究中心研究员，博士生导师，教育部青年长江学者，江苏省杰出...(展开全部)

Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it? In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile monotheism with God's threefold nature, the doctrine of Trinity was introdu...(展开全部)

Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it? In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile monotheism with God's threefold nature, the doctrine of Trinity was introdu...(展开全部)

Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020 *The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller and a 'Book of the Year' 2019* Selected as Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Washington Post, Herald and Good Housekeeping A heart-wrenching new novel of the unbreakable bond between a brother and sister, their childhood home, and a past that will not let them go - from the Number...(展开全部)

From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a “sibling novel” to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad—an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private. The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant...(展开全部)

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant--the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually num...(展开全部)

Not since Anne Fadiman’s ExLibris has there been a book destined to appeal so strongly to booklovers. The story of a man who attempts to track down the recipient of a mysterious dedication written by his dead friend is a search for an obscure but dedicated bibliophile.