Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde,...(展开全部)

"The Violet Isle" is a little-known nickname for Cuba, inspired by its richly colored soil--one of the many qualities that make the country so seductive to photographers. This handsomely designed, slipcased edition offers an engaging, at times unsettling document of a country that, for the past 50 years, has remained in an economic, political, cultural and ecological bubble, is...(展开全部)

"The Violet Isle" is a little-known nickname for Cuba, inspired by its richly colored soil--one of the many qualities that make the country so seductive to photographers. This handsomely designed, slipcased edition offers an engaging, at times unsettling document of a country that, for the past 50 years, has remained in an economic, political, cultural and ecological bubble, is...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, an...(展开全部)

A classic novel about the golden age of film. It is based on Isherwood's experience of co-writing the 1934 Berthold Viertel film Little Friend. 'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' Edmund Wilson An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter—an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality. In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects. She invest...(展开全部)

The principle of self-government through political parties, the cornerstone of democracy, has come to be regarded as a solution to the problem of nationality. This is because the principle of nationality entails the acceptance of the idea of popular government. The importance of the principle of nationality is undeniable, and most of the national questions of Western Europe mig...(展开全部)

拉尔夫•巴尔顿•培里（1896-1957） 美国哲学家，美国实用主义者威廉•詹姆士的学生，新实在论的创始人之一。1876年 7月3日生于佛蒙特州的波尔特尼，1896年获普林斯顿大学文学士学位，1897年和1899年先后获哈佛大学硕士和哲学博士学位。他曾短期在威廉斯和史密斯两学院任教，1902～1946年在哈佛大学任讲师、教授，1946～1948年任格拉斯哥大学吉福德讲座讲师。1920年曾被选为美国哲学学会东部分会主席。培里的著作甚多,涉及哲学、科学、艺术、宗教等各个领域，主要的有：《自我中心的困境》(1910)、《实在论的独立性理论》（1912）、《现代哲学倾向》(1912)、《一般价值论》(1926)、《威廉•詹姆士的思想和性格》（2卷，1935）、《价值的领域》(1954)等。