米歇尔.法柏（Michel Faber），英国文坛备受瞩目的小说大师，有“当代狄更斯”之誉，1998年处女作《雨必将落下》赢得多项大奖，被《泰晤士报》赞誉为“炙手可热的天才。 现已出版《雨必将落下》、《199级阶梯》、《勇气伴侣》、《华氏双胞胎》等图书，并荣获尼尔.刚恩奖、杨.圣詹姆斯奖、苏格兰艺术协会奖、马卡蓝推理小说奖与苏格兰十字年度最佳小说奖，作品被翻译成近20种语言畅销全球。

<p>At the heart of this panoramic， multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Faber leads us back to 1870s London， where Sugar， a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway， yearns for escape to a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society offers us intimacy...(展开全部)

米歇尔.法柏（Michel Faber），英国文坛备受瞩目的小说大师，有“当代狄更斯”之誉，1998年处女作《雨必将落下》赢得多项大奖，被《泰晤士报》赞誉为“炙手可热的天才。 现已出版《雨必将落下》、《199级阶梯》、《勇气伴侣》、《华氏双胞胎》等图书，并荣获尼尔.刚恩奖、杨.圣詹姆斯奖、苏格兰艺术协会奖、马卡蓝推理小说奖与苏格兰十字年度最佳小说奖，作品被翻译成近20种语言畅销全球。

Meet Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century London who yearns for escape to a better life. From the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins her ascent through society, meeting a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters on the way. They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose empire is fueled by his lust for S...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)