肖恩·白塞尔（Shaun Bythell） 苏格兰最大的二手书店店主，其店名即为“书店”（The Book Shop）。因其幽默、毒舌的书店老板形象而走红于网络。除了日常经营书店、搜集古书和珍本之外，肖恩也是威格敦图书节的组织者之一，长期致力于推广书本文化。2017年他出版了第一部作品《书店日记》，该书在读者和媒体中反响热烈，成为当年英国书市黑马。《书店里的七种人》是其备受期待的最新作品。

In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of his experience into a warm, witty and quirky taxonomy of the book-loving public. So,...(展开全部)

美国小说家Richard Yates的短篇集

First published in 1962, a year after "Revolutionary Road", this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was fi...(展开全部)

Graham Peck (1914-1968) made his first trip to China in 1935 and served with the U.S. Office of War Information in China throughout the 1940s. Two Kinds of Time is witty and eloquent in both its words and the drawings with which it is lovingly illustrated. Long out of print in its unabridged version, this engagingly written eye-witness narrative of China on the eve of revolutio...(展开全部)

First published in 1962, a year after "Revolutionary Road", this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was fi...(展开全部)

Graham Peck (1914-1968) made his first trip to China in 1935 and served with the U.S. Office of War Information in China throughout the 1940s. Two Kinds of Time is witty and eloquent in both its words and the drawings with which it is lovingly illustrated. Long out of print in its unabridged version, this engagingly written eye-witness narrative of China on the eve of revolutio...(展开全部)

迈克尔·康奈利是深受比尔·克林顿、米克·贾格尔等人喜爱的悬疑小说家，他被《GQ》称为“世界上最好的悬疑小说家”。他的小说迄今销售了7400多万册，被翻译成40种文字，并且几乎每一部都能登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的榜首。迈克尔·康奈利从事小说创作之前，在《洛杉矶时报》担任犯 罪新闻记者，丰富的经历为他的写作提供了坚实的基础。1992年，他创作了以洛杉矶警探哈里·博斯为主角的小说《黑色回声》，获得1993年爱伦·坡奖的最佳处女作奖。目前，“哈里·博斯系列”小说已出版了20部。

Understanding human beings and their distinctive rational and volitional capacities is one of the central tasks of philosophy. The task requires a clear account of such things as reasons, desires, emotions and motives, and of how they combine to produce and explain human behaviour. In Kinds of Reasons, Maria Alvarez offers a fresh and incisive treatment of these issues, focusi...(展开全部)

With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual. DNA does not make us who we are. “Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence,” he writes. “In recent years, a mountain of scientific ...(展开全部)