Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years’ absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of mon...(展开全部)

艾萨克•阿西莫夫 Isaac Asimov （1920 ~1992） 俄裔美籍作家，全知全能，被全世界读者誉为“神一样的人”。美国政府授予他“国家的资源和大自然的奇迹”这个独一无二的称号，以表彰他在“拓展人类想象力”上做出的杰出贡献。 阿西莫夫一生之中著作近500 本，涉及杜威图书分类法的每一个范畴，涵盖人类生活的每一个层面，上天下海、古往今来、从恐龙到亚原子到全宇宙无所不包，从通俗小说到罗马帝国史，从科普读物到远东千年历史，从圣经指南，到科学指南，到两性生活指南，每一部著作都朴实、严谨而又充满幽默风趣的格调。 1972年，阿西莫夫的长篇小说《神们自己》首次登上《银河科幻》杂志，并相继斩获代表了全球科幻界最高荣誉的星云奖、雨果奖和轨迹奖等多项大奖。多年来，这部作品被全球科幻迷奉为必读的阿西莫夫集大成之作，同时，也是阿西莫夫本人最偏爱的作品。

艾萨克•阿西莫夫 Isaac Asimov （1920 ~1992） 俄裔美籍作家，全知全能，被全世界读者誉为“神一样的人”。美国政府授予他“国家的资源和大自然的奇迹”这个独一无二的称号，以表彰他在“拓展人类想象力”上做出的杰出贡献。 阿西莫夫一生之中著作近500 本，涉及杜威图书分类法的每一个范畴，涵盖人类生活的每一个层面，上天下海、古往今来、从恐龙到亚原子到全宇宙无所不包，从通俗小说到罗马帝国史，从科普读物到远东千年历史，从圣经指南，到科学指南，到两性生活指南，每一部著作都朴实、严谨而又充满幽默风趣的格调。 1972年，阿西莫夫的长篇小说《神们自己》首次登上《银河科幻》杂志，并相继斩获代表了全球科幻界最高荣誉的星云奖、雨果奖和轨迹奖等多项大奖。多年来，这部作品被全球科幻迷奉为必读的阿西莫夫集大成之作，同时，也是阿西莫夫本人最偏爱的作品。

艾萨克·阿西莫夫因为《神们自己》获得了1972年星云奖及1973年雨果奖。《神们自己（TheGodsThemselves）》，这个标题出自席勒描写圣女贞德的剧作中的一句话：面对愚昧，即使神们自己都束手无策 Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant...(展开全部)

In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an autonomous wisdom capable of rivaling philosophy.

Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature. From the banishment of the c...(展开全部)

The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts.

在线阅读本书 Book Description She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatically change the course of world events -- if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient and mysterious assassin, a...(展开全部)

谭恩美：著名美藉化裔女作家。1952年出生于美国加州奥克兰，曾就读医学院，后取得语言学硕士学位。她因处女作《喜福会》而一举成名，成为当代美国的畅销作家。著有长篇小说《灶神之妻》《灵感女孩》和为儿童创作的《月亮夫人》《中国暹罗猫》等，作品被译成20多种文字在世界上广为流传。