米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-)，法国当代文学大师，当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家，而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至，评价极高，认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一，发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。 《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言，它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材，在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后，按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后，非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶，反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净，同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙，使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统，变成了一个

In Blindness, a city is overcome by an epidemic ofblindness that spares only one woman. She becomes a guide for agroup of seven strangers and serves as the eyes and ears for thereader in this profound parable of loss and disorientation. Wereturn to the city years later in Saramago’s Seeing, asatirical commentary on government in general and democracy inparticular. Together here for the first time, this beautifuledition will be a welcome addition to the library of any Saramagofan.

戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在我们要读的

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Smart, tough Los Angeles FBI agents Jack Harper and OscarHidalgo meet their match in a diamond smuggler, Steinbach, whoseems to have almost superhuman powers. Arrested during a cleversting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will killthem, and sure enough, one by one, they start to die. Worse, Jackcan't begin to pin it on Steinbach, who is, after all, in prison.Soon, however, Steinbach makes a deal with Homeland Security and isfreed with total immunity. Jack is pretty sure that he and Oscarcould be next. But, as it turns out, Steinbach is not the onlymenace. Two of the agents who were killed turn out to be dirty.Jack and Oscar tour the seamy side of L.A. in hopes of findingclues, but they get way more than they bargained for.

The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command ofUSS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. NowAbrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change foranyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas. WhenCaptain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, a shiparmed with every cutting-edge system available, it was like abusiness that had all the latest technology but only some of theproductivity. Knowing that responsibility for improving performancerested with him, he realized he had to improve his own leadershipskills before he could improve his ship. Within months he created acrew of confident and inspired problem-solvers eager to take theinitiative and take responsibility for their actions. The slogan onboard became "It's your ship," and Benfold was soon recognized farand wide as a model of naval efficiency. How did Abrashoff do it?Against the backdrop of today's United States Navy-Benfold was akey player in our Persian Gulf fleet-Abrashoff shares h

Eugenia Bone was perfectly happy with her life as a New YorkCity food writer, but she knew that her husband, a transplantedwesterner, was filled with a discontent he couldn't explain. Sowhen he returned from a fishing trip in the Rockies one day andannounced that he wanted to buy a forty-five-acre ranch inCrawford, Colorado (population 255), she reluctantly said yes. Thenshe loaded imported pasta, artichokes in oil, and cured Italiansalami into her duffle bag and headed west with her two youngchildren. At Mesa's Edge is the witty, often moving story of ranchrestoration and of struggles with defiant skunks, barbed wire,marauding cows, and loneliness. Eugenia learns to garden in thedrought, to fly-fish, and to forage. In the process, she discoversthe bounty of the region. She fries zucchini flowers in batter anddips them in cilantro-flavored mayonnaise, grills flavorful T-bonesfrom the local ranchers' grass-fed beef, pan-fries trout, fillscrepes with wild mushrooms, and makes cherry pies with thick,sugar

In this long-awaited book, Marcus Samuelsson introduces thesimple techniques and exciting combinations that have won himworldwide acclaim and placed Scandinavian cooking at the forefrontof the culinary scene. Whether it's a freshly interpreted Swedishclassic or a dramatically original creation, each one of the disheshas been flawlessly recreated for the home cook. Every recipe has amasterful touch that makes it strikingly new: the contrastingtemperatures of Warm Beef Carpaccio in Mushroom Tea, the pleasingmix of creamy and crunchy textures in Radicchio, Bibb, and BlueCheese Salad, the cornflake coating on a delightful rendition ofMarcus's favorite "junk food," Crispy Potatoes. In "The Raw and theCured," Marcus presents the cornerstone dishes of the Scandinavianrepertoire, from a traditional Gravlax with Mustard Sauce (whichgets just the right balance from a little coffee) to theinternationally inspired Pickled Herring Sushi-Style. The clean,precise flavors of this food are reminiscent of Japanese cuisi

The Law Yearbook of China is alarge，comprehensive and req ui—slte publication for readers at homeand abroad to understand and studv the basic information about thesocialist legal system construction in China．The Yearbook，withabundant information，focuses on legisla—tion and j ustice in Chinaand reflects the comprehensive situations of L；hma’S socialistlegal system construction from such aspects as lawmaking，lawenforcement，legal publicity and education．and re-search on theoriesOf legal science．A1l materials appeared in the Year—book areprovided by related central and local government sectors so thatthe content is complete，accurate and authoritative． The I．，aw Yearbook of China(English Version2007--2008)main—ly retlects the legal system construction in Chinain 2006--2007．It in—cludes the following columns：SpecialReports；Legislature，J udicature and Arbitration；Laws of thePeople’s Republic of China；Treaties and Legal Aspects of China’sDiplomacy Work；

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Franz Kafka's imagination so faroutstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition heinherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out inorder to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulouslynaturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these storiesrepresent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift ofmaking our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. Thisedition of his stories includes all his available shorter fictionin a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by GabrielJosipovici in ways that bring out the writer's extraordinary rangeand intensity of vision. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faceslife's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. It is 1951in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious,law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, MarcusMessner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral,conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is hethere and not at the local college in Newark where he originallyenrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhoodbutcher, seems to have gone mad -- mad with fear and apprehensionof the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangershe sees in every corner for his beloved boy. As the long-suffering,desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arisesfrom love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger inMarcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. Heleaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has tofind his way amid the customs and constrictions of another America

From the acclaimed author of Conquistador comes this thrillingaccount of one of history’s greatest adventures of discovery. Withcinematic immediacy and meticulous attention to historical detail,here is the true story of a legendary sixteenth-century explorerand his death-defying navigation of the Amazon—river of darkness,pathway to gold. In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and hiswell-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito insearch of La Canela, South America’s rumored Land of Cinnamon, andthe fabled El Dorado, “the golden man.” Driving an enormous retinueof mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, hunting dogs, and otheranimals across the Andes, they watched their proud expedition beginto disintegrate even before they descended into the nightmarishjungle, following the course of a powerful river. Soon hopelesslylost in the swampy labyrinth, their numbers diminishing dailythrough disease, starvation, and Indian attacks, Pizarro andOrellana made a fateful decisi