One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her—literally. Except for the occasional catnap o...(展开全部)

约翰•斯卡尔齐（John Scalzi） 美国当红科幻作家，美国科幻与奇幻作家协会前会长。三次获得雨果奖，十次入围。2005年，他以《老人的战争》成名，获得2006年约翰•W.坎贝尔优秀新人奖。2013年，他凭借《红衫》包揽雨果奖、轨迹奖两项大奖。 斯卡尔齐深受罗伯特·海因莱因、奥森·斯科特·卡德等人的影响，题材多以惊险刺激的军事科幻为主，擅长运用对话推动情节发展，人物风格各异，语言辛辣幽默。其作品已被翻译成二十多种语言，深受各国读者的欢迎。 “老人的战争”六部曲是斯卡尔齐的代表作，该系列一共五次入围雨果奖、轨迹奖，并多次获得日本星云赏、以色列格芬奖等国际大奖。《万物的终结》是“老人的战争”六部曲的终结篇。历经十年创作的“老人的战争”六部曲以及“老屁帮”成员们的太空冒险故事在本书中迎来大结局。

The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben’s sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archeological vigilance: a persistent form of thinking whose path is to expose, examine, and elaborate that which remains obscure, unthematized, even unsaid, in an author’s thought. To be archeologically vigilant, then, is to return to, even invent, a met...(展开全部)

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the...(展开全部)

The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben’s sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archeological vigilance: a persistent form of thinking whose path is to expose, examine, and elaborate that which remains obscure, unthematized, even unsaid, in an author’s thought. To be archeologically vigilant, then, is to return to, even invent, a met...(展开全部)

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

安德烈亚斯·埃什巴赫 Andreas Eschbach 作为德语科幻领军人，安德烈亚斯·埃什巴赫12岁开始写作，4部小说斩获德意志科幻奖，9部小说斩获库特-拉思维兹奖。这是德语科幻的至高荣誉，相当于中国的“银河奖”和“华语星云奖”。盛名之下，他的作品从时间到空间都展现出气吞山河的胸襟，把现今的前沿科技拓展到人类想象力的极致。 安德烈亚斯·埃什巴赫曾是航空航天工程师、软件工程师。这样的经历促成了代表作《万物之主》，让他能以硬科幻特有的严谨，推导出费米悖论的另一种解释。在他的文字里，沧海桑田、万家灯火，都不过是另一片黑暗森林中空寂的回声。

乔治·莱考夫（George Lakoff），生成语义学、认知语言学的主要创始人，曾任国际认知语言学协会主席。。 1972 年起任职于美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利校区语言学系。其代表性著作有《我们赖以生存的隐喻》（与马克·约翰逊合著，1980）、《女人、火与危险事物：范畴显示的心智》（1987）、《肉身哲学：亲身心智及其向西方思想的挑战》（与马克·约翰逊合著，1999）。莱考夫 2004 年4 月在北京高校的系列讲座内容，汇编成《乔治·莱考夫认知语言学十讲》（2007）出版。