One hot summer night in the city, all the power goes out. The TV shuts off and a boy wails, "Mommm!" His sister can no longer use the phone, Mom can't work on her computer, and Dad can't finish cooking dinner. What's a family to do? When they go up to the roof to escape the heat, they find the lights--in stars that can be seen for a change--and so many neighbors it's like a blo...(展开全部)

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. But now the...(展开全部)

The dangers of immediacy: why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style rejects mediation in favor of direct access, extreme affect, and rapid uptake. These are values it borrows from the economic conditions of “disintermediation”: cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what...(展开全部)

The dangers of immediacy: why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style rejects mediation in favor of direct access, extreme affect, and rapid uptake. These are values it borrows from the economic conditions of “disintermediation”: cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what...(展开全部)

From a psychiatrist who has spent the past thirty years listening to other people's most intimate secrets and troubles—an eloquent, incisive, and deeply perceptive book about the things we all share—and which every one of us grapples with as we strive to make the most of the life we have left. After service in Vietnam as a surgeon for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regim...(展开全部)

Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry--a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exit...(展开全部)

Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry--a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exit...(展开全部)

简介：任务：SCP物品对世界安全是一种显著的威胁。运作于世界各地的机构，则从地外生物、异次元世界和外层空间中保持人类的独立自主。在过去人类一直被这些异常的物品和相似的事物随意玩弄，但现在，人类的发展来到了一个历史转折点，使我们完全有能力控制和隔离这些违反自然法则的事物。目标：寻找超自然事物并基于其原理发展新科技。收容有潜在威胁的事物。发展安全措施来应对未来出现的危险事物。寻找，扣留，消灭任何阻止我们完成上述目标的人或事物。以人类之名，为文明唱响颂歌，以吾之名，谱写勇气之诗，我们没有退路，我们无法善终，我们为了基金会而战，我们为了文明而战。——Special Containment Procedures Foundation

简介：任务：SCP物品对世界安全是一种显著的威胁。运作于世界各地的机构，则从地外生物、异次元世界和外层空间中保持人类的独立自主。在过去人类一直被这些异常的物品和相似的事物随意玩弄，但现在，人类的发展来到了一个历史转折点，使我们完全有能力控制和隔离这些违反自然法则的事物。目标：寻找超自然事物并基于其原理发展新科技。收容有潜在威胁的事物。发展安全措施来应对未来出现的危险事物。寻找，扣留，消灭任何阻止我们完成上述目标的人或事物。以人类之名，为文明唱响颂歌，以吾之名，谱写勇气之诗，我们没有退路，我们无法善终，我们为了基金会而战，我们为了文明而战。——Special Containment Procedures Foundation

索尔•贝娄 Saul Bellow，1915-2005 美国犹太裔作家。生于加拿大魁北克省的拉辛，在蒙特利尔度过童年。1924年，举家迁至美国芝加哥。1933年，贝娄考入芝加哥大学。两年后，转入伊利诺伊州埃文斯顿的西北大学，获得社会学和人类学学士学位。同年，赴威斯康星大学攻读硕士学位。自1938年以来，当过编辑和记者，并于第二次世界大战期间在海上短期服过役外，他长期在芝加哥等几所大学执教。 索尔•贝娄是唯一一位凭借《奥吉•马奇历险记》《赫索格》《赛姆勒先生的行星》三次获得美国国家图书奖的作家。1975年，凭借小说《洪堡的礼物》获得普利策奖；1976年，获得诺贝尔文学奖。