The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

马克斯・韦伯，德国学者，与马克思、涂尔干齐名，并列为现代社会学的奠基者。历任柏林、费莱堡及海德堡等大学教授。一生著述甚多，以《宗教社会学论文集》及《经济与社会》等最重要，以《新教伦理与资本主义精神》等最为国内读者所知晓。

Iris Murdoch's debut--a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose 'philosophy' he once presumptuou...(展开全部)

A survey of the various ways--often unrecognized and overlooked--whereby Christianity has impacted the world, making the world a better place and enriching our everyday living.

19世紀英国。没落貴族の公爵家の娘・グレースは愛人のロウランド宅で謎の死を遂げた。彼女の息子ライナスとロレンスは実父・ロウランド伯爵に引き取られるが、ライナスは母の死にロウランド家の人々が関わっていると疑念を抱く。真相を究明しようとするライナスの孤独な闘いが始まった。

ロウランド伯爵邸に家庭教師として来たレイチェルは、そのひたむきさで徐々に生徒であるロウランド家の子供たちと心を通わせつつあった。ただ一人の心を除いては…。

作者阿努克和刘易斯，一直致力于唤起每个人对环境保护的意识，他们的作品大都关注环境保护，简单而富有诗意语言、变幻的立体画面，用图画触动每个人内心对于自然、对于地球的关注与爱。

Iris Murdoch's debut--a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose 'philosophy' he once presumptuou...(展开全部)

"An original and fresh tale, quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa. I enjoyed it very much."-Doris Lessing"A peculiarily African sensibility . . . a writer of fluid, fragmentary narratives. . . . Remarkable."-"New Statesman"A police inspector is investigating a strange murder-a case in which all the suspects are eager to claim responsibility for the act.Set in a fo...(展开全部)