The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern...(展开全部)

Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive of. The Book of Vanishing Species is a stunning homage to the planet’s most mysterious, bizarre and wondrous creatures and plants. Their stories are captivating, from the eyeless and tiny dragonlike olm to the hawksbill turtle, whose gender will be determined by the temperature of the sand it is born in....(展开全部)

Duration: 11:34:06 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! "Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye." —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal "A story of absolute, universal timelessness ...For any era, it's an accomplished, affectin...(展开全部)

This is probably the first large-scale photographic essay dedicated to the Asian continent's natural wonders. The 44 regions this handsome volume explores-some famous, some almost unknown, all extensively narrated and gorgeously illustrated-are Asia's calling card; it is a continent that still preserves huge expanse of pristine nature and amazing biodiversity hotspots. Their s...(展开全部)

With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century's. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman ...(展开全部)

With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century's. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman ...(展开全部)

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674335912&content=bios Vanishing into Things explores the concept of knowledge in Chinese thought over two millennia, from Confucius to Wang Yangming (ca. 1500 CE), and compares the different philosophical imperatives that have driven Chinese and Western thought. Challenging the hyperspecialized epistemology of modern philosophy i...(展开全部)

Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this conjoining of ethnography, history and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties, as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites and cultural practices suspended a...(展开全部)

In his final work Alan Booth takes us on a fascinating journey by foot through three remote regions of Japan to search for the country's geographic and spiritual heart - and for the elusive connections between present and past, self and society. Looking for the Lost is a beautifully written, opinionated, and entertaining look at the life and slow death of a culture, and a poign...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 厄尔·斯威夫特（Earl Swift），著名记者，2012年起任弗吉尼亚大学人文基金会研究员，已出版多本专著，曾撰写数百篇重要特稿，以有力的叙述和严谨的报道而闻名，其作品多次获得美国国家图书奖、美国国家杂志奖和普利策奖提名。 【译者简介】 周佳，北京大学印度语言文学专业博士，中国传媒大学博士后。研究兴趣包括南亚历史与文化、宗教人类学等，曾译《众神降临之前：在沉默中重现的印度河文明》等。 【审校人简介】 徐沐熙，哲学博士，中国社会科学院马克思主义研究院副研究员，主要研究方向为中华优秀传统文化的现代化等。曾译《景德镇官窑瓷器考》，曾审校《日本自然观研究》等。