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?

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)

We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is ...(展开全部)

We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is ...(展开全部)

尼可拉斯·D. 克里斯多夫（Nicholas D. Kristof） 出生于1959年，美国记者、政治评论家，毕业于哈佛大学、牛津大学。1984年加入《纽约时报》后，他先后担任过该报香港、北京和东京分社的社长。由于出色的从业水准，他曾七次入围普利策，并两次获得该奖。 雪莉·邓恩（Sheryl WuDunn） 出生于1959年，美国企业高管、记者、作家，毕业于康奈尔大学、哈佛商学院、普林斯顿大学。她曾任《纽约时报》商业版编辑和驻外记者，是历史上第一位获得普利策奖的亚裔美国人。 1990年，克里斯多夫和邓恩共同获得普利策新闻奖国际报道奖，成为历史上第一对获此殊荣的夫妻组合。 译者简介： 赵文伟 英文、意大利文、西班牙文译者。2020年凭《最棒的吉米》入选 IBBY荣誉榜单翻译家榜。译有：《疯狂的奥兰多》《月亮和六便士》《心是孤独的猎手》《歌剧魅影》《少年...(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)