Doris Lessing

'How simple this novel is. How subtle. How strong. How unlike any other. It is unique. It is unforgettable. It is extraordinary' Doris Lessing 'I'm surprised it isn't the most famous book in the worl

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, M

"Since 1900, the average life expectancy in the developed world has almost doubled, from 45 to 80. Pritchett is one of five great writers--along with Stanley Kunitz, Doris Lessing, Mavis Gallant and R

'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Wee

"Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."—Doris Lessing "By meshing the richness of African beliefs . . . into the Western framework of the novel, he creates a mysterious and surreal epic.

Dennis Brutus, Jeremy Cronin, Nuruddin Farah, Nadine Gordimer, Dan Jacobson, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Doris Lessing, Gcina Mhlope, Sheila Roberts, Sipho Sepamla, Veronique Tadjo: some of Africa s greatest a

Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe—from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser.The essential unknowablenes

'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Wee

In this profoundly moving book, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, she imagines

“An original and fresh tale, quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa. I enjoyed it very much.”—Doris Lessing“A peculiarily African sensibility . . . a writer of fluid, fragmentary narrative

This 1937 successor to Last and First Men offers another entrancing speculative history of the future. Cited as a key influence by science-fiction masters such as Doris Lessing, its bold exploration o

From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind?s beginnings. In the last

Essays exploring the lives and literary achievements of twelve women writers--including Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary McCarthy--focus on how they shaped beliefs a

Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing

Diving Deep and Surfacing reveals how the writings of Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, and Ntozake Shange can inform women's search for spiritual renewal. A new afterword te

Starting with the works of Simone de Beauvoir, Doris Lessing and Betty Friedan, this anthology charts the development of the women's movement since World War II. An introduction to each selection is i

The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the piece are set in cont

This is the first volume in the series of novels Doris Lessing calls collectively Canopus in Argos: Archives. Presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, t

Eight plays written during the twentieth century by such women as Lillian Hellman, Doris Lessing, and Clare Boothe focus on the problems and struggles of women

大都會的台中，情場經驗豐富但被工作上的應酬文化壓得喘不過氣的業務員凱鈞，在大學同學會的 KTV 裡被 Doris 的後頸與馬尾所迷住。兩人在世故的半夜街道上，用最客套的態度，小心的試探對方，尋求紅綠燈下的一點體溫。*作者的話在我們這個時代，我其實常常覺得真正的愛情故事越來越稀少了。我們用語言和動作去包裝，預設許多條件，預判對方的預判，結果只是描摹出一些戲劇對白的擬仿。我想要捕捉真正被愛情敲到頭那一下的倉皇狼狽，那這樣再多的言不由衷都可以原諒。 ──作者陳艾琪*編輯的話也不知道是在幾歲開始，憧憬的愛情已經從少年少女漫畫的夢幻氛圍，轉成在咖啡因與酒精的苦澀中的細膩口感。艾琪的短篇小說有著對角色的冷冽而精準的觀察側寫，卻也有最核心的體溫。本書可以說是冷硬派的都會愛情故事，配樂是流行爵士，再搭配一點懷舊濾鏡。 ──敘事鋸主編許立衡*★ 紅樓詩社「拾佰仟萬」出版贊助計畫 決選入圍 ★*「敘事鋸短小說」系列，在一頓飯的時間內，帶你逃往故事裡的世界。❦

This book analyses the literary works of Alan Sillitoe, Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing and James Kelman since each of them is a representative of a different class or colour or gender or region in post-war

相片，就如音樂、就如畫作，都是世界性的共通語言。每一幅攝影作品，都暗藏著一個故事！攝影師的眼中看到什麼？觀眾又會聯想到什麼？你在他浮光掠影的大千世界裡，又能找到多少共鳴以及你自己的故事？《追夢者的樂園》的作者何廣暢，在財經界馳騁多年，早已名成利就，仍不斷追尋夢想，可謂追夢者的典範。這本攝影集探索多處地方的夢幻場景，分別在香港、美國、加拿大、日本等地捕捉不同的影像，奇妙地把當地的人和地串連起來，再配上由衷的勵志金句，足以感動每位讀者的心靈，讓都市人在忙碌的生活中得到喘息的空間，思想可以漫無目的遊走，同時引領大眾感受人生的真諦，及回到追夢的初心。追夢，一個多麼遙不可及的詞，一個只屬於孩童的天真口號，尤其對於生活在香港地的我們，追夢二字更是不切實際。但捫心自問，我們是不想追，還是不敢追？本書作者毅然捨棄幾十年安穩的金融工作，全心全意投入追夢的旅程。其實只要我們願意去做，不管多遲，夢想仍然緊握在你手中。事實上，追夢從來沒有地域和時間的界限，更沒有年齡的限制，任何人只要勇於追尋，都能夠成就燦爛的人生；新作亦正好反映作者自己在人生旅程中的不斷進化、進取、進步。如果你在追夢的路上感到氣餒，停滯不前，需要一點鼓勵，《追夢者的樂園》或能給予啟示。《追夢者的樂園》以香港各地的風景人物為主題的攝影集，作者用快門將堅毅、奮鬥、精靈、關愛、情懷等等情感深刻、蘊藏詩意的畫面捕捉，通過構圖奇妙地將攝影的「一剎那」釋放，編織出存在無限可能，人人獨有的夢幻樂園。書中共有八個不同的主題，總有能夠觸動你心靈的部分，為你帶來一點反思、一點安寧、一點勇氣。夢想，是存在的～好評推薦：「每一幅攝影作品都暗藏故事」――李易璇（Heidi Lee），香港芭蕾舞團執行總監「追夢，從來沒有太遲！」――陳智思（Bernard Chan），大紫荊勳章受勳人、金紫荊星章受勳人、太平紳士、香港社會服務聯會主席「追夢，有人視為不切實際的行為，但我卻認為它是推動人生奮勇向前的動力。」――鄧淑明博士（Dr. Winnie Tang），太平紳士、Esri中國香港有限公司創辦人兼董事長「作者鼓勵我們如何享受人生，並繼續向前追求人生的理想和目標。」――司徒聖豪博士（Dr. Martin Szeto），香港應用科技研究院有限公司首席運營官「從厄運中尋找上天的啟示」――梁淑儀（Doris Leung），鑽的香港有限公司創辦人兼董事長「夢是自己

《Doris實時數據倉庫理論與實戰》系統地介紹了Doris的核心概念、架構原理和各項功能。全書共7章。第1章對Doris做了初步介紹。第2章重點介紹了Doris的數據表設計。第3章聚焦於Doris的數據導入。第4章介紹了Doris的數據導出和數據管理。第5章討論了Doris中的數據更新和刪除操作。第6章將讀者帶入Doris的進階使用領域。第7章展示了Doris的生態擴展。通過《Doris實時數據倉庫理論與實戰》的學習，讀者可以全面而深入地瞭解運用Doris構建高效、可擴展、實時數據倉庫系統的方法,從理論到實踐，從基礎到進階。 《Doris實時數據倉庫理論與實戰》適用于Doris開發人員和數據工程師，或有志從事數據倉庫開發的技術人員。

這是一本從基本操作、架構設計、進階使用、運維管理、拓展應用、項目實戰等多個維度全面講解Doris的著作，是資深數據倉庫專家兼Doris開源項目貢獻者實戰經驗的總結，得到了Apache Doris PMC主席、Select DB創始人兼CEO以及多位Apache Doris PMC的強烈推薦。通過本書，讀者不僅能零基礎快速掌握Doris的原理和使用，還能獲得搭建離線/在線實時數倉的項目實戰經驗。全書內容從邏輯上分為四個部分：基礎篇(第1-4章)：首先介紹了Doris的功能特點、架構設計、應用場景，然後講解了Doris的編譯、安裝、部署、建表等基本操作，以及Doris的數據對象和數據模型。進階篇(第5-7章)：從執行原理、用法詳解、應用舉例3個維度詳細講解了Doris的數據導入、數據查詢和查詢優化，層層遞進。拓展篇(第8-10章)：結合目前流行的Flink框架和各種常用外部表講解了Doris的拓展應用，還講解了Doris的集群管理。實戰篇(第11-14章)：首先從具體應用的角度介紹了離線數據倉庫和實時數據倉庫搭建的痛點和難點，然後用2個綜合項目講解了如何結合Doris實現離線數據倉庫和實時數據倉庫。

One day, Doris Bean invites the Queen to tea. But little does Doris know, the Queen has a big sense of adventure. Tea turns into big trouble And what can Doris do about the missing crown?Oxford Readi

Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey looks inside four of Doris Humphrey’s major choreographic works—Water Study (1928), The Shakers (1931), With My Red Fires (1936), and Passacaglia (1938)

While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents his dynamic and shifting views on drama

Hooray for books! They make me ROAR!Doris the Bookasaurus thinks books are mega-dino-tastic! They make her spiky tail wiggle and her imagination soar. Her boisterous little brothers, Max and T.J., do

Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) creates works that address political violence and oppression. This pioneering book, which focuses on Salcedo’s works from 2001 to the

For Doris, a swimmy in the head thirteen-year-old, it seems life can get no worse. She’s tragically unpopular at school and failing American History. She’s grounded and will not be attending the sprin

Who is Doris Stauffer? Born 1934 in a small village in Switzerland, she was educated as photographer in Hans Finslser’s famous Photography Class at Zurich School of Art and Design in the 1950s. Soon s

Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, ground-breaking in both narrative form and subject matter when it was first published in 1962, encompasses important political and social developments of the mid-t

A mountain of chairs piled between buildings. Shoes sewn behind animal membranes into a wall. A massive crack running through the floor of Tate Modern. Powerful works like these by sculptor Doris Salc

Little Croc wants a pet. But his mum and dad have other news - they are expecting a baby. And when Baby Doris arrives, Little Croc decides she is the most annoying little sister EVER. A warm and witty

When adventurous New York retiree Doris Miller relocated to Florida in the 1980s, she took with her a lifetime of photography skills. Doris befriended members of the local Seminole Tribe of Florida.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the most eminent literary figure of the German Enlightenment and a writer of European significance. His range of interest as dramatist, poet, critic, philosoph

From the author of the Daisy series, a charming story of friendship, belonging, and growing up When Bosun chooses a kitten to be his new ship's cat, he thinks he's a she and names him Doris! But Dor

Doris Day, once called an Actors Studio unto herself, was one of the twentieth century's greatest entertainers, with a career spanning 39 films, more than 150 television shows, and more than 500 reco

One of the most independent thinkers in German intellectual history, the Enlightenment author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) contributed in decisive and lasting fashion to literature, philosophy

Known as broadly for her incredible acting career as for her astounding voice and such songs as "Secret Love" and "Que Sera, Sera," Doris Daywas an international star and an American icon. She