卡洛斯·鲁依兹·萨丰 Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1964年出生于西班牙巴塞罗那，从孩童时代起就沉迷于阅读，一心想要探索“创造故事”的奥秘。虽然30岁之后移居美国，但他始终对家乡这座历尽沧桑的文化古城拥有难以磨灭的感情。“风之影四部曲”正是献给巴塞罗那的纸上梦境。 · 2001年《风之影》诞生，这个哥特风格的故事在没有任何宣传的情况下，依靠口碑在西班牙引起巨大轰动，雄霸畅销书榜超过一年半。次年席卷欧美各国，斩获四项文学大奖，在世界范围引发“萨丰狂热”的文学现象。 · 《天使游戏》《天堂囚徒》的相继出版，又将小说剧情推向更高潮，直到2016年《灵魂迷宫》问世，这部历时15年的系列作品宣告完结，揭开了西班牙内战及佛朗哥独裁时期，一系列发生在巴塞罗那的黑暗传奇。自出版之时起，“风之影四部曲”始终位列西语文学榜前五名，并被翻译成40种语言，全球销量超...(展开全部)

卡洛斯·鲁依兹·萨丰 Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1964年出生于西班牙巴塞罗那，从孩童时代起就沉迷于阅读，一心想要探索“创造故事”的奥秘。虽然30岁之后移居美国，但他始终对家乡这座历尽沧桑的文化古城拥有难以磨灭的感情。“风之影四部曲”正是献给巴塞罗那的纸上梦境。 · 2001年《风之影》诞生，这个哥特风格的故事在没有任何宣传的情况下，依靠口碑在西班牙引起巨大轰动，雄霸畅销书榜超过一年半。次年席卷欧美各国，斩获四项文学大奖，在世界范围引发“萨丰狂热”的文学现象。 · 《天使游戏》《天堂囚徒》的相继出版，又将小说剧情推向更高潮，直到2016年《灵魂迷宫》问世，这部历时15年的系列作品宣告完结，揭开了西班牙内战及佛朗哥独裁时期，一系列发生在巴塞罗那的黑暗传奇。自出版之时起，“风之影四部曲”始终位列西语文学榜前五名，并被翻译成40种语言，全球销量超...(展开全部)

The third in the cycle of novels that began with THE SHADOW OF THE WIND and THE ANGEL'S GAME. THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from THE SHADOW OF THE WIND have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with...(展开全部)

The third in the cycle of novels that began with THE SHADOW OF THE WIND and THE ANGEL'S GAME. THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from THE SHADOW OF THE WIND have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with...(展开全部)

We live in a world saturated by future-consciousness. Our lives are constructed around expectations of the future as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This volume is a conceptual tool kit for thinking about the hopes and anxieties embodied in ideas of the future. Exploring links between panic and nostalgia, waiting and utopia, technology and messianism, and ...(展开全部)

Where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead us. Our minds tell us that some things in the universe must be true. The New Physics tells us that they are not, and in the process, blurs the line between science and science fiction. Here are six accessible essays by those who walk that line, moving ever further out in discovering the patt...(展开全部)

The eminent Harvard naturalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson marshals all the prodigious powers of his intellect and imagination in this impassioned call to ensure the future of life. Opening with an imagined conversation with Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, he writes that he has come "to explain to you, and in reality to others and not least to myself, what has h...(展开全部)

Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the 21st century. These two contrasting themes - unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril - have originated since the 1980s. In this book, scientist E.O. Wilson describes exactly what treasures of the natural world we are about to lose fo...(展开全部)

Michio Kaku's "Physics of the Future: The Inventions that will Transform our Lives" is a hypothetical journey through the next 100 years of scientific innovation, as told by the scientists who are making it happen. We all wish we could predict the future, but most of us don't know enough about the science that makes it possible. That's why Michio Kaku decided to talk to the peo...(展开全部)

One of America's leading policy intellectuals, who coined the term "Soft Power", looks at what has happened to American power from the time of Kennedy to the present day. In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power in the US was expressed in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, numbers of men under arms, and tanks lined up ready to cross the plains of Eastern Europe....(展开全部)