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.

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.

The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished a...(展开全部)

桑迪普·乔哈尔是长岛犹太医疗中心心脏衰竭项目的负责人。他著有两部医学回忆录，并为报刊撰写专栏。两部医学回忆录均登上纽约时报畅销书榜。桑迪普现与妻子、儿女居于长岛。

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in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

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in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

Harvard Professor Henry Spearman - an ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics to size up every situation - is sent by an American entrepreneur to Cambridge, England. His mission is to scout out for purchase the most famous house in economic science: Balliol Croft, the former dwelling place of Professor Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes' teacher and the font of modern eco...(展开全部)

Harvard Professor Henry Spearman - an ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics to size up every situation - is sent by an American entrepreneur to Cambridge, England. His mission is to scout out for purchase the most famous house in economic science: Balliol Croft, the former dwelling place of Professor Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes' teacher and the font of modern eco...(展开全部)