Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock?n?roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and halluci...(展开全部)

Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock?n?roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and halluci...(展开全部)

繼第一本小說《蘇西的世界》暢銷後，艾莉絲．西柏德經過四年的沉澱才出新書，這一次她大膽嘗試描寫中年女性的困境。 　　克萊兒和海倫是一對被關在一場殘酷關係中的母女，彼此卻已成了對方生活的中心。但是在大大出人意表的開場中，海倫跨過了一道她從未想過會踰越的界線。她幾乎毫無意識地採取行動，彷彿她長久以來就想這麼做了。海倫與她年邁失智的母親克萊兒，透過一場母女的慘劇檢視女性的一生，直視生命的殘酷。 　　接下來的24小時內，海倫來到一個新的十字路口，當她面臨抉擇時，過往的生命片段一一浮現眼前。過去這麼多年來她處心積慮要贏得母親的愛，如今她自由了，但這卻是太危險也太不能把握的自由。 　　希柏德在《近月》一書中探討了家人之間的情感糾結、犧牲的意義，以及把我們與潛藏的瘋狂衝動分開的那條細細的界線。蘇西如果沒有在14歲死去，或許就會是49歲的海倫。同樣是暴力事件，希...(展开全部)

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, "Almost No Memory," In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relationships.

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, "Almost No Memory," In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relationships.

The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: why are the Danes the happie st people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastical oil wealth? And why do all of them hat...(展开全部)

“A fascinating introduction” (Steven Pinker) to the science of decision-making One of the leading thinkers in the computational neuroscience revolution offers a brilliant new perspective on the mind’s decision-making process. Why do we make the choices we make? How can science explain free will? If our brains are like slow computers originally programmed for survival with g...(展开全部)

This is an unrivaled look at the work of Caruso St. John, one of the UK's leading contemporary architectural firms. British architects Adam Caruso and Peter St. John first came to prominence in 1996 when they won an international competition to design the New Walsall Art Gallery - a project which was shortlisted for the prestigious Stirling Prize in 2000. Since then, they have ...(展开全部)

世界需要一部聖經，那些無法被《聖經》所容的人，那些永遠孤獨的看著切的畫像而淚流滿面的人，需要一部《切語錄》…… 我們需要找到一部可以讓更多讀者更便於查閱，並且能夠快速領略到他精神的語錄。找到切在四十年後的精神形象，屬於每個閱讀中文的青年都可以接受，在切的話語中，找尋他的靈魂或啟示。這本書的企圖是：描述切所製造出來的影響力、全球化、網際網路交流、以英語、西班牙語、中文，或者更多的不同語言的閱讀者，在這樣的精神共識下，領受一代浪漫革命家的精神最精髓。 本書的編選原則是以切的精神線索與他所創造出來的美，特別是犧牲之美，來進行的一次切精神的Google搜尋，這種搜尋帶著艱難的想像力與創造力，甚至偏離切精神高度的判斷力，但卻是一次東方語系中，紀念切的最重要行動，因為這本書，我們造成了合作，形成了一種文化上的縱橫規模。這個規模基本上覆蓋了我們今天所經歷的不同時代...(展开全部)