A direct, stylish, and engrossing story of a marvelous life well lived. Markham describes her childhood in Kenya and her experiences as a bush pilot in the 1930s -- evoking the landscapes, people, and wildlife in rich detail.

A direct, stylish, and engrossing story of a marvelous life well lived. Markham describes her childhood in Kenya and her experiences as a bush pilot in the 1930s -- evoking the landscapes, people, and wildlife in rich detail.

In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to...(展开全部)

In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to...(展开全部)

WINNER of a 2016 Whiting Award Featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" Featured on PBS NewsHour Huffington Post's 12 Great Poetry Books to Read Publishers Weekly 2016 Poetry Top 10 Buzzfeed Most Exciting Books of 2016 "Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with...This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorr...(展开全部)

WINNER of a 2016 Whiting Award Featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" Featured on PBS NewsHour Huffington Post's 12 Great Poetry Books to Read Publishers Weekly 2016 Poetry Top 10 Buzzfeed Most Exciting Books of 2016 "Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with...This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorr...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 王鸥行（Ocean Vuong） 1988年生于越南胡志明市（旧称西贡），两岁时随母亲搬到美国。鸥行为ocean的音译，同时，海鸥行过之处就是“海”。经作者同意，译为王鸥行。2017年，他凭借诗集《夜空穿透伤》一举夺得T.S. 艾略特奖。同时，这本诗集也获得了怀廷奖、前进奖和汤姆·冈恩奖。 【译者简介】 何颖怡 政治大学新闻研究所毕业，美国威斯康辛大学比较妇女学研究，现专职翻译。译有《在路上》《裸体午餐》《阿宅正传》《时间里的痴人》《行过地狱之路》《林肯在中阴》《如梦的一年》《此生，你我皆短暂灿烂》《背叛者》等。

【作者简介】 王鸥行（Ocean Vuong） 1988年生于越南胡志明市（旧称西贡），两岁时随母亲搬到美国。鸥行为ocean的音译，同时，海鸥行过之处就是“海”。经作者同意，译为王鸥行。2017年，他凭借诗集《夜空穿透伤》一举夺得T.S. 艾略特奖。同时，这本诗集也获得了怀廷奖、前进奖和汤姆·冈恩奖。 【译者简介】 何颖怡 政治大学新闻研究所毕业，美国威斯康辛大学比较妇女学研究，现专职翻译。译有《在路上》《裸体午餐》《阿宅正传》《时间里的痴人》《行过地狱之路》《林肯在中阴》《如梦的一年》《此生，你我皆短暂灿烂》《背叛者》等。

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and econo...(展开全部)

Oswald Spengler was born in 1880 at Blankenburg, Germany. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history at Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations...(展开全部)