The world’s horizon is considered a limit to the vastness of our planet. For a little girl with a boundless imagination and irrepressible curiosity, it’s more than a frontier, it’s an invitation to explore and pursue what is ever-present but always just out of reach. Told poetically through her eyes, Beyond the Horizon is a beautiful tale that encourages us to grasp the invisib...(展开全部)

Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In the new capitalism of networked information technologies, our very ability to communicate is exploited, but revolution is still possible if we organise on the basis of our common and collective desires. Examining the experience of the Occupy movement, Dean argues that such spontaneity can’t devel...(展开全部)

Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In the new capitalism of networked information technologies, our very ability to communicate is exploited, but revolution is still possible if we organise on the basis of our common and collective desires. Examining the experience of the Occupy movement, Dean argues that such spontaneity can’t devel...(展开全部)

杰弗里·福特：他是极耀眼的奇幻新锐。 著有知名长篇小说《镜中女孩》、《查布克夫人的画像》和《暗影之年》，以及短篇小说集《奇幻作家的助手》、《冰激凌帝国》和《沉溺的生活》。 曾获得爱伦·坡奖、星云奖、雨果奖和世界奇幻奖，并数次入围上述奖项的提名。 美国新泽西州布鲁克戴尔社区学院写作 及早期美国文学教授。

Author Jeffrey Ford's World Fantasy Award-winning novel, The Physiognomy, introduced Cley, master of a twisted and terrifying science utilized to keep order in a nightmare city. In the brilliantly audacious Memoranda, the reformed physiognomist embarked on a surreal quest through the mind of the monster who imagined and constructed the dark metropolis. Now the third and final...(展开全部)

In The Physiognomy, "fascinatingly unconventional writer" (Locus) Jeffrey Ford introduced Physiognomist First Class Cley, a master of a terrifying science utilized to keep order in a night-mare world known as the Well-Built City. Its sequel, Memoranda, told of a reformed Cley embarking on a surreal quest through the mind of Master Drachton Below -- the monster behind the dark m...(展开全部)

Ils sont psychiatre, médecin, ingénieur, pilote ou encore botaniste : ce sont les ambassadeurs de la première mission habitée vers Mars. Mais comment réagiraient les humains à 150 millions de kilomètres de la Terre ? Quel lien les unit à Mars ? C'est aussi l'occasion d'en apprendre plus sur cette magnifique et dangereuse planète... Un récit de "vulgarifiction" piloté par Floren...(展开全部)

《LOST HORIZON》(消失的地平线)是作家詹姆斯•希尔顿所著一本小说的情节，书名叫《消失的地平线》（Lost Horizon），首版发表于1933年。正是由于这本书的发表，在英语中多了一个新的词汇——“shangri-la”——香格里拉，这个词成了永恒宁静和平的象征。随着希尔顿的小说1937年后多次被拍成电影，那片神奇的土地和香格里拉的名字更是家喻户晓，引得半个多世纪以来无数探险家、旅游者、考古者，甚至淘金者纷纷寻找这个似乎是虚幻存在的地方，几乎忘记了那只是一部虚构小说中的地名。新加坡华侨巨商郭鹤年将他遍及全球的酒店集团命名为“香格里拉”。位于滇藏川地区东南部的云南省迪庆藏族自治州的中甸县甚至将自己的县名就改为“香格里拉”。