Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer themes an...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

From one of our greatest living writers, Don DeLillo, a brief, unnerving, and hard-hitting new novel about a secret war advisor and a young filmmaker.

'Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' Sunday Telegraph Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh...(展开全部)

日本を代表するコミックアーティスト浦沢直樹、松本大洋、寺田克也、カネコアツシ、小池桂一がオリジナル短編を寄稿! フランスの出版社ユマノイド創立40周年を記念する日仏米コミックアンソロジー! ! ! 日本=マンガ、フランス=バンド・デシネ、アメリカ=コミックス。世界のマンガシーンをリードする3つの地域から総勢14人のアーティストが結集! テーマは「ターニングポイント」。14人の作家たちが、さまざまな決定的瞬間をお届けします。 1974年、バンド・デシネ作家のメビウスやフィリップ・ドリュイエによって創設されたフランスの出版社HUMANOIDS(ユマノイド)は、雑誌『メタル・ユルラン』などを通じて、 世界中のマンガ家・アニメーター・映像作家に影響を与えました。本書は、そのユマノイドが、創立40周年を記念し、 世界中の優れたコミックアーティストたちにオリジナ...(展开全部)

When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the arctic ice,the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory-a victory tith profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election.,To verify the authenticity of the find,the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton.Accompanied by a te...(展开全部)

Cassie discovers that her stepfather, Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has been illegally prescribing a new behavioral drug to his patients—and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick commits Cassie to Peaceful Cove, a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico. Cassie knows she has to get out now, before more teens die. But no one has ever escaped from Peaceful Cove alive...(展开全部)

Some of the world s greatest creators have each written and drawn an original story that explores the key moment when a clear-cut split occurs, a mutation, a personal revolt or a large-scale revolution that tips us from one world into another, from one life to an entirely new one: The Tipping Point. From slice-of-life tales and science-fiction adventures, to amusing asides and ...(展开全部)

科林•胡佛2012年1月自主发表第一部小说《因为深爱，所以放手》（Slammed），2012年2月，又发表了续作《真爱没有尽头》（Point of Retreat）。这两本小说一上市便引起热议，亚马逊读者评论数以史无前例的速度迅速突破1000条。同年，两本书的电影版权以高价售出。 胡佛喜爱音乐和诗歌，尤其是美国民谣摇滚乐队艾未特兄弟（The Avett Brothers）。在《因为深爱，所以放手》中，她用他们的歌词作为每一个章节的引子。此外，书中主人公威尔等人出入诗喃会，诗歌是贯穿整个故事的重要线索，也是胡佛作品的特色之一。她将这些动人歌词和诗句穿插在故事里，替主人公们道出心声，情之所至，催人泪下。 胡佛迄今出版的每一本小说，都荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，是美国最受欢迎的情感类小说作家之一。 科林•胡佛现在与家人和3个儿子一起居住在美国得克萨斯州。...(展开全部)