There is not a 'them' and an 'us'; there is really only 'us.' One People illustrates this thought through a collection of glorious photographs, accompanied by thoughtful essays, that capture the universality of the human experience in the very different contexts of our diverse world. In this book we present people in all stages of our common life cycle, reflecting a moment, emotion, ritual, or intimacy that, be it mundane or extraordinary, is recognisable across cultures and language barriers. Regardless of nationality or beliefs, we share the joy of birth, the celebration of life's special moments, the need to find meaning in our lives, the strength to endure, the resilience to keep trying and the sorrow of death. And above all, we share a curiosity about other people that inspires us to travel and to seek them out. And it is travel that facilitates this understanding, connection and humanity in all of us, and illuminates the shared paths and crossroads in our many journeys.
Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry,has been celebrated for his singular vision of the Americanimmigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierceand tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotousevocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiasticaudiences among readers of Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac,""Slate," "The New Yorker," and other publications. His willingnessto face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous bookparticularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write"If I have to believe in something, I believe in despair." Yet heremains oddly undaunted: "sometimes, late at night, we, myhappiness and I, reminisce, lifelong antagonists enjoying eachother's company.""The God of Loneliness," a major collection ofSchultz's work, includes poems from his five books ("Like Wings,""Deep Within the Ravine," "The Holy Worm of Praise," "Living in thePast," "Failure") and fourteen new poems. It is a volume tocherish, fro
作者简介： J. K. (Jo) Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury in the UK in 1965. Such a funny-sounding name for a birthplace may have contributed to her talent for collecting odd names. She was quiet, freckly, short-sighted and not very good at sports. She even broke her arm playing netball. Her favourite subject by far was English, but she also liked languages. Jo always loved writing more than anything. 'The first story that I ever wrote down, when I was five or six, was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. And ever since Rabbit and Miss Bee, I have wanted to be a writer, though I rarely told anyone so. I was afraid they'd tell me I didn't have a hope.' As she got older, Jo kept writing but she never showed what she had written to anyone, except for some of her funny stories that featured her friends as heroines. Jo attended the University of Exeter in Devon where she studied French. When she was 25,
《堂吉诃德》，全名《匪夷所思的拉曼查绅士堂吉诃德》，是伟大的西班牙作家塞万提斯的传世经典。作者以一位因误信骑士小说而毅然自号堂吉诃德的没落绅士人世行侠为主线，通过描写堂吉诃德大战风车、英勇救美、恶斗群羊、贸然释囚、挑战雄师、地穴探险、爵府奇遇等等荒诞故事，热烈地讴歌了真善美、无情地挞伐了假恶丑，充分表现出了盛行于当时的人文精神。《堂吉诃德》不愧为世界文学史上具有划时代意义的杰作，问世后四百年来，仅流传于各国的译本就有一千多种，成为世界人民的共有精神财富，泽及一代又一代杰出作家，堂吉诃德这一形象也作为耽于幻想、脱离实际的代表人物融入了现今社会生活的各个领域之中。据挪威诺贝尔学会透露，全世界五十多个国家的一百位作家在2002年上半年经过投票，评选出《堂吉诃德》为世界小说。
Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundredbooks later, he personally collected twenty-five of his storieswritten before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were firstpublished in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of themappeared under the Ed McBain byline. They were written by EvanHunter (McBain's legal name as of 1952), Richard Marsten (apseudonym derived from the names of his three sons), or HuntCollins (in honor of his alma mater, Hunter College). Here are kidsin trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs.Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are copsand robbers. These are the stories that prepared Evan Hunter tobecome Ed McBain, and that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved87th Precinct novels. In individual introductions, McBain tells howand why he wrote these stories that were the start of his legendarycareer.
