A Cloud A Day is a beautifully illustrated book containing 365 skies selected by the Cloud Appreciation Society. There are photographs by sky enthusiasts around the world, satellite images and photographs of clouds in space, as well as skies depicted by great artists over the centuries.

This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: t...(展开全部)

A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now...(展开全部)

This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: t...(展开全部)

A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now...(展开全部)

“Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and ...(展开全部)

拉古维尔·帕塔萨拉蒂 生物物理学领域新锐科学家。现为俄勒冈大学物理学教授，主要研究方向是生物物理学、微生物群落、宿主-微生物相互作用和先进显微技术。 2020年，他因在生物物理学，特别是在对肠道微生物群和脂双层的理解方面的创造性和创新性贡献，被选为美国物理学会会员。 范克龙 贝时璋青年生物物理学家奖、中源协和生命医学创新突破奖、国家级青年人才项目获得者；现为中国科学院生物物理研究所研究员、博士生导师；主要研究方向是疾病靶向药物载体的开发、纳米酶的仿生设计及其生物医学应用等。

A Heart so White begins as, In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan's mother. As Juan edges closer to the trut...(展开全部)

It is not only the fact that this is the most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction that gives distinction to this novel, but also its undoubted literary qualities, which seem to place it among the best novels that have come out of our continent.<br /> - West AfricaThis novel is a perceptive testimony to the plight of articulate women who live in ...(展开全部)

玛利亚玛·芭（1929―1981），塞内加尔女作家，一生只完成了两部法语小说，但这两部作品都是非洲女性文学的经典之作。她曾在小学任教职多年，后加入妇女组织协会，成为一名社会活动家。1979年，她出版了自己的靠前部小说《一封如此长的信》，该作在次年的法兰克福书展上荣获首届非洲诺玛文学奖。1981年，芭去世，遗作《猩红之歌》于同年发表，并获当年的撒哈拉沙漠以南非洲文学大奖。芭的作品讲述一夫多妻制的丑恶，以及女性作为这一习俗的牺牲品所经历的痛苦。