Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" ...(展开全部)

Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" ...(展开全部)

Squirrel has never seen it snow, and this year he is determined not to miss it. He wants his friends, Hedgehog and Bear, to see it snow too, but it's hard to stay awake. Finally, winter arrives, and snow is falling...or it is?

麦克莫波格（Michael Morpurgo）生于1943年，英国著名儿童文学作家，英国最畅销小说家之一。在获得英国大大小小的童书奖之后，2003年英国儿童文学最高荣誉奖“童书桂冠作家”再次将他的创作生涯推向高峰。 迄今为止，作品已有百余部，得奖无数。多部作品曾翻拍成电影、电视剧、舞台剧和歌剧。《柑橘与柠檬啊》被拍摄成电影，《蝴蝶狮》被改变成舞台剧，深受好评。 莫波格除了在他最喜爱的历史间穿梭，他还有三座慈善农场(Farms for City Children），每年陪伴超过两百位孩子，在这里一同体验农场生活，并从动物和大自然中学习包容和宽恕。他的故事，解救了众多渴望幻想的小小心灵。他说在孩子们身上看到了故事带来的不可思议的魔力，并且他意识到这种魔力同样也眷顾了自己。 有件事，他想一辈子都做，那就是，给很小很小的孩子写书，那种每个字都很重要的书。他说...(展开全部)

First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first published by Prickly Pears Press in 1993, this expanded edition of "Waiting for Foucault" represents some of the brightest anthropological satire - mixed in with some of the most serious intellectual issues in the human sciences. Whether he...(展开全部)

First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first published by Prickly Pears Press in 1993, this expanded edition of "Waiting for Foucault" represents some of the brightest anthropological satire - mixed in with some of the most serious intellectual issues in the human sciences. Whether he...(展开全部)

The novel, before publication and in manuscript form, was a finalist for the Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize and received glowing reviews from writers Madison Smartt Bell and Robert Olen Butler, which are attached. In a plush bungalow in Pali Hill (the Beverley Hills of Mumbai), four friends await the arrival of Jonathan, a dreamer, a thinker, an ideator, who has been unceremoniou...(展开全部)

For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is ...(展开全部)

For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is ...(展开全部)

斯泰西·霍恩，1956年出生在美国弗吉尼亚州的诺福克市，在长岛长大，毕业于塔夫斯大学的美术馆学院，并在纽约大学取得了交互电信学的硕士学位，现为专职作家、商人和兼职记者。