A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century that continue to reverberate throughout modernity—a story unlike anything you’ve ever read before. Sudden Death begins with a brutal tennis match that could decide the fate of the world. The bawdy Italian painter Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo battle it out before a cro...(展开全部)

故事用第一人称讲述了一个叫做“另一天”的女孩子，生活在一个“什么都有可能突然发生的”城市，某一天她意外得到了季风的礼物，一个愿望。突然之城为“另一天”把全世界的人都变成了植物，她想寻求解决的办法，却被交换师挖掉记忆，所有的人都在帮助她忘记这件事，以此得到快乐。旅伴乌鸦，变成人形以后就再也不能飞。蚯蚓先生，想得到安心的生活，被交换师换走了青春。唯独交换师禹，是一个神秘的人。他可以穿透天真国与残忍国，调换其中的人物，就如当初，他获得“另一天”的记忆之后又把她安置在了美丽的天真国。后来“有一天”拆穿天真国的谎言，而突然之城的世界，像一张双面的牌，就是我们说的“一面天真，一面残忍”，是我们天真又残忍的乐园。

An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Historicity of the present, cultivation of the secular within received cosmologies, human agency in history, and naturalism in the representation of social and or...(展开全部)

An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Historicity of the present, cultivation of the secular within received cosmologies, human agency in history, and naturalism in the representation of social and or...(展开全部)

[美]罗纳德•C.罗斯伯顿（Ronald C. Rosbottom），美国阿默斯特学院（Amherst College）法国与欧洲研究荣休教授，专注于第二次世界大战和法国研究。曾出版《当巴黎黑暗时》（When Paris Went Dark），入围美国国家图书奖。 焦静姝，社科学术类图书译者，中山大学历史系毕业。翻译出版《小说鉴史》一书，收入商务印书馆“汉译世界名著”丛书，荣获2018年傅雷翻译奖。

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)

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.

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)

"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)