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)

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。

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is one of the trailblazing works of feminism. Published in 1792, Wollstonecraft’s work argued that the educational system of her time deliberately trained women to be frivolous and incapable. She posited that an educational system that allowed girls the same advantages as boys would result in women who would be not only exceptional wives and...(展开全部)

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it was the first great piece of feminist writing. In these pages you will find the essence of her argument – for the education of women and for an increased female contribution to society. Her work made the...(展开全部)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is one of the trailblazing works of feminism. Published in 1792, Wollstonecraft’s work argued that the educational system of her time deliberately trained women to be frivolous and incapable. She posited that an educational system that allowed girls the same advantages as boys would result in women who would be not only exceptional wives and...(展开全部)

伊莲·摩根（Elaine Morgan，1920-），毕业于英国牛津大学，曾担任20多年的电视编剧，并获得多个奖项。1972年，她写作出版了《女人的起源》一书，由此成为了国际知名的女性主义作家。之后，她花费10年的时间钻研进化论，特别是英国海洋生物学家哈代爵士的“水生理论”，并于1982年出版了其另一本畅销著作《水猿》。目前，伊莲·摩根所致力的“水猿假说”，在科学家和大众中获得了越来越多的肯定和支持。