1270 results for '"Aihong, Li'

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dr. Seuss’s wonderfully wise Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is the perfect gift to celebrate all of our special milestones—from graduations to birthdays and beyond!“[A] book...

When is a summer vacation not really a summer vacation?Sunny Lewin has been packed off to Florida to live with her grandfather for the summer. At first she thought Florida might be fun -- it is the...

Named a Best Book of the Year by: Boston Globe * New Yorker * NPR * PopMattersFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn comes a sweeping story...

How philosophical differences between Eurozone nations led to the Euro crisis—and where to go from hereWhy is Europe’s great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties...

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAnother masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize–shortlisted author of The Years.   In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux...

"We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on...

Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient...

A dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first time   This new volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the...

NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX"Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New YorkerFinalist for the Man Booker International Prize!Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream... A young...

Russia, 1910. Leo Tolstoy lies dying in Astapovo, a remote railway station. Members of the press from around the world have descended upon this sleepy hamlet to record his passing for a public...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a collection of steamy, STEMinist novellas featuring a trio of engineers and their loves in loathing—with a special bonus...

In this interpretation of the seven extant tragedies of Sophocles, Professor Winnington-Ingram provides not so much a straightforward account of Sophocles as an exploration of his tragic vision of...

Our communication by speech can be seen as a remarkable series of transformations involving the brain, the muscles, sound-waves, the ear and finally the brain again. In this 1977 text, Dennis Fry...

Pour expliquer Pétain, Marc Ferro commencera en 1940, lorsque Paul Reynaud fait appel à lui dans l'espoir de conjurer la catastrophe. Puis son récit suivra apparemment l'itinéraire d'une chronique,...

A richly imagined dark fantasy that pulses with the beautiful destruction of a town reclaimed by the natural world.Sub-tropical Bellworth is founded on floodplains and root-bound secrets. And...

In 1974, archeologists stunned the world when they announced the discovery of an ancient sandstone burial chamber deep in the heart of northwest China's Takla Maklan Desert. Inside the chamber was a...

Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death, his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence–on marbles, bronzes, ivories, frescoes,...

In some circles, a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo. Such is the insidiousness of the neo-liberal ideology, argues Slavoj Žižek. Did Somebody Say...

A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of...