詹姆斯•鲍德温（1924—1987），美国著名小说家、散文家、诗人、剧作家和社会活动家，生于纽约哈莱姆区，童年坎坷，生父有毒瘾问题，后母亲嫁给牧师大卫·鲍德温，又生育8个孩子。 1938年，受其严苛的继父的影响，14岁的鲍德温成为了哈莱姆地区的一名牧师。17岁时，鲍德温决定脱离教会。19岁生日那天，其继父去世，当天哈莱姆地区也发生了暴动。 1948年，对美国的种族现实极度失望的鲍德温选择移居法国。1953年，鲍德温出版了带有很强的自传色彩的处女作《向苍天呼吁》。此后的三十年里，他陆续出版了《 土生子札记》《乔万尼的房间》《另一个国度》《下一次将是烈火》《告诉我火车开走了多久》《如果比尔街会说话》等著名作品。 1957年，鲍德温回到美国，投入当时如火如荼的黑人解放运动。1987年12月1日， 鲍德温因肺癌在法国去世。他一生著有六部长篇小说、四部剧本、十...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•鲍德温（1924—1987），美国著名小说家、散文家、诗人、剧作家和社会活动家，生于纽约哈莱姆区，童年坎坷，生父有毒瘾问题，后母亲嫁给牧师大卫·鲍德温，又生育8个孩子。 1938年，受其严苛的继父的影响，14岁的鲍德温成为了哈莱姆地区的一名牧师。17岁时，鲍德温决定脱离教会。19岁生日那天，其继父去世，当天哈莱姆地区也发生了暴动。 1948年，对美国的种族现实极度失望的鲍德温选择移居法国。1953年，鲍德温出版了带有很强的自传色彩的处女作《向苍天呼吁》。此后的三十年里，他陆续出版了《 土生子札记》《乔万尼的房间》《另一个国度》《下一次将是烈火》《告诉我火车开走了多久》《如果比尔街会说话》等著名作品。 1957年，鲍德温回到美国，投入当时如火如荼的黑人解放运动。1987年12月1日， 鲍德温因肺癌在法国去世。他一生著有六部长篇小说、四部剧本、十...(展开全部)

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "l...(展开全部)

At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice--to both the individual and America at large--The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement, stands as one of the essential works of our literature. It remains as relevant today, widely read in classrooms ...(展开全部)

Since it was first published, this famous study of the Black Problem in America has become a classic. Powerful, haunting and prophetic, it sounds a clarion warning to the world.

Time and Place -- Timeplace -- is a continuum of the mind, as fundamental as the spacetime that may be the ultimate reality of the material world.Kevin Lynch's book deals with this human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. The center of his interest is on how this innate sense af...(展开全部)

In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space. Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts a...(展开全部)

In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space. Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts a...(展开全部)

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease? <p align=center> <table cellpadding="4" width="100...(展开全部)

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