马特·里克特（Matt Richtel），《New York Times》记者，报道领域广泛，尤其擅长科技对人们生活的影响这一主题。2010年凭借对分心驾驶及其产生根源的系列报道，斩获普利策国内新闻报道奖（Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting），并由此推动了广泛改革。里克特毕业于加州大学伯克利分校和哥伦比亚大学新闻学院，他还是一名小说作家。

Amazon Exclusive: John Grisham Reviews The Lost City of Z In April of 1925, a legendary British explorer named Percy Fawcett launched his final expedition into the depths of the Amazon in Brazil. His destination was the lost city of El Dorado, the “City of Gold,” an ancient kingdom of great sophistication, architecture, and culture that, for some reason, had vanished. The idea ...(展开全部)

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, ...(展开全部)

Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment and information. Although choices seems endless, public attention is not. How do digital media find the audiences they need in an era of infinite choice? In The Marketplace of Attention, James Webster expl...(展开全部)

Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment and information. Although choices seems endless, public attention is not. How do digital media find the audiences they need in an era of infinite choice? In The Marketplace of Attention, James Webster expl...(展开全部)

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas s...(展开全部)

This prose parody is Swift's first major work and possibly his most masterful

乔纳森•斯威夫特（Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745），英国作家，讽刺文学大师，以《格列佛游记》、《桶的故事》、《书的战争》、《布商的信》等作品闻名于世。

多麗絲·萊辛（Doris Lessing, 1919- ），英國現當代最重要的作家之一。生於波斯（今伊朗），5歲時隨家人遷往南非羅德西亞（今津巴布韋）。萊辛的童年是在農場中度過的。 1949 年，萊辛攜帶她的第一部小說手稿初回英國。這部題為《青草在歌唱》的小說是她的處女作，於1950年在英國出版，一舉成功，並同時在美國及十個歐洲國家出版發行。她的國際聲譽亦由此建立，創作一發而不可收。 不僅她的長篇小說，她的幻想小說以及短篇小說的創作也取得了令人矚目的成就。其中，短篇小說集《五》獲得薩默塞特·毛姆文學獎。1981年獲奧地利的歐洲文學國家獎，1982年獲得德意志莎士比亞文學獎，代表作有五卷本的《暴力的孩子》系列、《金色筆記》、《黑暗來臨前的夏季》、《倖存者的回憶錄》等。短篇小說則多收入了《第十九號房間》及《傑克·奧尼爾的誘惑》兩部集子中。五卷本的小說系列...(展开全部)

The Tragedy of Arthur is an emotional and elaborately constructed tour de force from “one of the best writers in America” ( The Washington Post ). Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young novelist struggling with a con artist father who works wonders of deception. Imprisoned for decades and nearing the end of his life, Arthur’s father reveals a treasure he’s kept secret for...(展开全部)