An intense, touching, and informative glimpse into life in exile One morning in June 1941, a quiet village in Central Lithuania is shaken out of its slumber by the sudden arrival of the Soviet Army. Eight-year-old Algiukas awakes to the sound of Russian soldiers pounding on the door. His family is given 10 minutes to pack up their things. They are not told where they’re going ...(展开全部)

克里斯蒂安·沃尔玛（Christian Wolmar），英国著名交通事务作家和广播公司评论员。他定期为多家知名出版物撰稿，包括《独立报》《伦敦晚报》和《铁路杂志》，并经常在电视和广播节目作现场评述。沃尔玛尤其擅长铁路史研究，其著作《地下铁路》《火与蒸汽》《铁血和黄金》《战争的发动机》和《铁路大革命》等作品广受好评。

克里斯蒂安·沃尔玛（Christian Wolmar），英国著名交通事务作家和广播公司评论员。他定期为多家知名出版物撰稿，包括《独立报》《伦敦晚报》和《铁路杂志》，并经常在电视和广播节目作现场评述。沃尔玛尤其擅长铁路史研究，其著作《地下铁路》《火与蒸汽》《铁血和黄金》《战争的发动机》和《铁路大革命》等作品广受好评。

Trans Philosophy defines this burgeoning and polymorphous discipline as philosophical work that is accountable to and illuminative of cross-cultural and global trans experiences, histories, and cultural productions. Across language and politics, feminism and phenomenology, and decolonial theory, it addresses trans worldmaking in all its beauty and mundanity. Critically, the edi...(展开全部)

What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care practices have trans subjects and communities cultivated in the wake of widespread transphobia and systemic forms of trans exclusion? Trans Care is a critical intervention in how care labor and care ethics have been thought, argu...(展开全部)

Trans Philosophy defines this burgeoning and polymorphous discipline as philosophical work that is accountable to and illuminative of cross-cultural and global trans experiences, histories, and cultural productions. Across language and politics, feminism and phenomenology, and decolonial theory, it addresses trans worldmaking in all its beauty and mundanity. Critically, the edi...(展开全部)

What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care practices have trans subjects and communities cultivated in the wake of widespread transphobia and systemic forms of trans exclusion? Trans Care is a critical intervention in how care labor and care ethics have been thought, argu...(展开全部)

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), novelist, essayist, and playwright, is considered by many to be the most important Polish writer of the 20th century. Author of four novels, several plays, and a highly acclaimed Diary, he was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1968. Trans-Atlantyk is a semi-autobiographical, satirical novel that throws into heightened perspective al...(展开全部)

A semi-autobiographical, satirical novel that throws into perspective all of Gombrowicz's major literary, philosophical, psychological and social concerns. Throughout the book Gombrowicz ridicules the self-centred pomposity of the Polish community in Argentina.

Icy, bleak, but unusually dramatic is this portrait of earth’s longest railroad and its prominent role in Russia’s development. The building of the 5,750-mile steel ribbon between Moscow and Vladivostok was the usual railroad epic on the vastest scale, with brilliant engineering, creative financing, and an army of laborers and convicts toiling away at perilous tasks in extreme ...(展开全部)