成濑纯一：普通的相貌、普通的经历、普通的工作、普通的性格，典型的到哪里都随处可见的那种人。工作两年，不好不坏，性格懦弱……唯一比较拿手的就是画画，并在买画材的时候认识了在油画店工作的小惠，然后象普通人一样陷入热恋。本该充满着幸福与宁静的生活，却被始料不及的一宗抢劫事件打乱——为了救一名小女孩，成濑被抢劫犯用枪射杀！ 醒来后的成濑被告知由于发生了亿分之一的奇迹，医院用刚好死去的别人的右脑移植到他遭枪击，受到破坏的右脑，手术奇迹般地成功。苏醒过来后，虽说有医生的详细解说和安慰，但自己的大脑有一半是别人的，有别人存在于自己的脑中。带着这份疑问的成濑忐忑不安地回到阔别已久的工作岗位和爱人身边，可慢慢地，他发现自己的身心正逐步发生一些变化，于是他决定要调查捐赠者的生前事迹以及为何自己会越来越暴躁的真正原因……

东野圭吾，日本著名作家，1958年生于大阪，直木奖、推理作家协会奖、江户川乱步奖、本格推理小说大奖等日本重要文学奖项得主，出道20余年来作品逾60部。 早期作品多为精巧细致的本格推理，随着写作功底浸润日深，涉及领域也不断延伸，对社会现象的剖析日渐精微。后期笔锋越发老辣，文字鲜加雕琢，叙述简练凶狠，情节跌宕诡异，故事架构几至匪夷所思的地步，擅长从极不合理之处写出极合理的故事，功力之深令人瞠目骇然。

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The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a dark side to the head’s preeminence, one that has, in the course of human history, manifested itself in everything from decapita...(展开全部)

The 3rd edition of this classic textbook continues to serve as a one-stop resource for authoritative information on all aspects of small animal surgery. Coverage includes basic procedures such as spays, castrations, and declaws, as well as more advanced surgeries that might be referred to specialists such as craniotomy, ventral slots, and lung lobectomy. Discussions of general ...(展开全部)

&quote;Animal Farm&quote; is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England in 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World Wa

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David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous —hailed as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring and truly original” by Science —has become a classic of environmental literature. Now Abram returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading throu...(展开全部)

Animal Babies collects over 120 incredible, heart-warming images of creatures in the wild. It captures precious moments in the young lives of a host of animals, from wolf pups squabbling in the pack and elephant calves wobbling to their feet to baby turtles flipping their way to the sea and baby otters learning to swim. Fall in love with these extraordinary animals as they find...(展开全部)

"Animal Eyes" aims to provide a comprehensive account of all known types of eye. It takes the diversity of optical mechanisms as a framework, but many other aspects of the structure and function of eyes are examined. Visual ecology, for example, the way that eyes are specifically adapted to the lifestyles of the animals that bear them, is another important theme. The 'design ph...(展开全部)