Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo’s Ladies’ ...(展开全部)

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo’s Ladies’ ...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. An unparalleled work in French or English literature on the war, "Pyrrhic Victory" is destined to become the stand...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. French leaders, favouring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts ar...(展开全部)

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine enco...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. An unparalleled work in French or English literature on the war, "Pyrrhic Victory" is destined to become the stand...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. French leaders, favouring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts ar...(展开全部)

作者簡介 布魯諾．拉圖（Bruno Latour） 1947年出生於法國知名酒鄉伯恩（Beaune）。哲學是拉圖最初接受的學術訓練，之後於非洲服役期間對人類學產生濃厚興趣，並曾在象牙海岸從事田野工作。1975-1977年間，他在加州的沙克研究所（Salk Institute）進行參與觀察，充分運用民族誌方法。1979年，與社會學家伍爾加（Steve Woolgar）合著《實驗室的生活》（Laboratory Life），乃上述調查的具體成果，也是新興學術領域「科技研究」（STS）的奠基之作。1982年起，拉圖任職於巴黎高等礦冶學院的創新社會學研究中心（CSI）。在CSI他與同僚發展並奠定「行動者網絡理論」（Actor-network Theory）的基礎。在2005年底從CSI轉至巴黎政治大學（Sciences Po.）的組織社會學研究中心（CSO）...(展开全部)

作者簡介 布魯諾．拉圖（Bruno Latour） 1947年出生於法國知名酒鄉伯恩（Beaune）。哲學是拉圖最初接受的學術訓練，之後於非洲服役期間對人類學產生濃厚興趣，並曾在象牙海岸從事田野工作。1975-1977年間，他在加州的沙克研究所（Salk Institute）進行參與觀察，充分運用民族誌方法。1979年，與社會學家伍爾加（Steve Woolgar）合著《實驗室的生活》（Laboratory Life），乃上述調查的具體成果，也是新興學術領域「科技研究」（STS）的奠基之作。1982年起，拉圖任職於巴黎高等礦冶學院的創新社會學研究中心（CSI）。在CSI他與同僚發展並奠定「行動者網絡理論」（Actor-network Theory）的基礎。在2005年底從CSI轉至巴黎政治大學（Sciences Po.）的組織社會學研究中心（CSO）...(展开全部)