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全书收录了 14篇个人随笔，被出版方形容为"充满了冷面幽默、坦率内省的温柔时刻以及敏锐的社会评论"。 Leiby 在书中逐一拆解了自己身上贴过的各种标签：

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书名：Go Home!《回家》

作者：Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

简介：New, emerging, and established Asian diasporic writers touch on the personal and political dimensions of h

书名：Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

作者：Reyna Grande, Sonia Guiñansaca, Viet Thanh Nguyen

简介：" "Wi

书名：The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives《作家图书馆》

作者：Nancy Pearl (Narrator), Jeff Schwager

简介：Twenty-th

书名：Things My Son Needs to Know About the World《关于这个世界,我儿子需要知道的事情》

作者：Fredrik Backman, Alice Menzies

简介：Things My Son Needs to Know About

作者：Amy Brady

书名：The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate《我们所知道的世界》

简介：Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe

作者：Carolina De Robertis, Junot Díaz(Contributor),Faith Adiele

书名：Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

简介：Radical Hope is a

Note From The Author
I could have put the typical blurb here.
Boy meets girl.
They fall in love.
Live happily ever after.
The end.
But this isn’t that story.

Bob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world, winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and many other seminal TV shows. This book, his first, is a spleen-bruisingly funny omnibus that ranges from

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism documents a concerted assault on the goals, principles, and archievements of the women's movement. Filling a long-standing need for a radical feminist collection on contemporary sexual politics, this vol

In a series of letters, author and feminist Phylis Chesler takes stock of her generation's legacy to the present and future. In relating her own experiences she challenges the readers to protect what has been won, and to confront the tasks that remai

This book tells the story of the thirty-year friendship between Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, and in particular, the story of the literary collaboration that culminated in their joint authorship of the Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis. The friendship

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year

“A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November…. A magisterial account of t

The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other “emerging markets” have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom

"It's the hubris of every generation to think that they have arrived at the best way of living. But all the things we now take for granted, all the modern wisdoms we hold to be self-evident, were once derided as dangerous or foolish radical thin

“The Legacy of David Foster Wallace is a necessary book—it will find a place in virtually every university and college library across the land. Surely it will be among the first critical works consulted by any scholar or student venturing into the work of

Pulitzer-prize winning author David HalberstamOs eyewitness account of the most critical political period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam_the Kennedy/Diem era_remains as fresh and stimulating today as when it was first published in 1965. In the introductio

One of America's most distinguished reporters and historians offers the deeply moving personal story of Engine 40, Ladder 35 -- located on the West Side of Manhattan near Lincoln Center -- and the absolute sacrifice its firefighters made on September

One third is a biography about the author. This book is written in an entertaining style and is a quick read. The style is fun and engaging, the points are good...for how many there are. 

pt. 1. Travel in general: Why not stay at home? --
Wander birds --
The traveller's -eye view --
Guide books --
Spectacles --
The country --
Books for the journey --
pt. 2. Places: Montesenario --
Patinir's river --
Portoferraio --
The

An African Story is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.

In An African Story, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells us the twisted tale of the dog killer, the missing milk,

A Piece of Cake is a short, gripping story of life in wartime from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.

In A Piece of Cake, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells the horrific story of a pilot whose plane crashes in the de

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is a collection of twenty-two powerful and indispensable essays on Native American life, written by one of America's foremost literary voices.

Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko

Download, for free!, a hilarious essay by New York Times bestselling author Jason Mulgrew, plus get a sneak peek from his new book, 236 Pounds of Class Vice President, available February 12, 2013.

For a few "glorious" weeks, Jason Mulgrew

This volume explores the whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man's unique position as the creator of his own mythology.

A systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the Western world.

An exploration of Eastern mythology as it developed into the distinctive religions of Egypt, India, China, and Japan.

The author of such acclaimed books as Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology.

The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of contemporary life. Examining heroic myths in the

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For writers looking to make sure their next physical interlude on the page inspires readers to share the moment rather than to laugh at it, bestselling author Diana Gabaldon divulges the writing secrets behind the sex scenes in

Travel with Kipling through India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton (now Guangzhou), Japan, and Burma

Rudyard Kipling spent many years abroad and his relationship with India is explored in several of his works, both fiction and non-fiction. After leaving s

Considered by many to be the most popular British writer of the early twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling has left an enduring legacy in the hearts, culture, and history of English literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, and the

Rabindranath Tagore, also written Rabindranatha Thakura, (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th cen

Excerpt from Glimpses of Bengal: Selected From the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895:

It so happened that selected extracts from a large number of such letters found their way back to me years after they had been written. It had been rig

This One in me knows the universe of the many. But, in whatever it knows, it knows the One in different aspects. It knows this room only because this room is One to it, in spite of the seeming contradiction of the endless facts contained in the single fac

As a young man, Rabindranath Tagore wrote a series of letters to his niece during what he described as the most productive period of his life. By turns contemplative and playful, gentle and impassioned, Tagore’s letters abound in incredible insights—from

Romain Rolland was an early twentieth century French novelist, dramatist and essayist. Throughout his life he was a fervent idealist, deeply involved with pacifism, the fight against fascism, the search for world peace and the analysis of artistic genius,

Yeats and the Logic of Formalism deals with formalism as a philosophy in Yeats’s works and how that in turn affects both his art and his social vision. Vereen M. Bell’s linking of “formalism” and “philosophy” stems from a meditation by Yeats in a manuscri

Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is mem