戴维•麦克尼尔，专栏作家、记者，在科学与文化边缘游走的“刀锋战士”。多年来担任美国知名科技杂志《连线》的专栏作家，并为《洛杉矶时代杂志》《太平洋标准》等多家媒体供稿。

戴维•麦克尼尔，专栏作家、记者，在科学与文化边缘游走的“刀锋战士”。多年来担任美国知名科技杂志《连线》的专栏作家，并为《洛杉矶时代杂志》《太平洋标准》等多家媒体供稿。

她以为自己是俄罗斯文学经典的爱好者——直到她遇到了超级书迷…… 从塔什干到旧金山，这是一个初出茅庐的作家与狂热分子的奇遇的真实故事，这些狂热分子对俄罗斯经典的热爱——荒谬！忧郁！狂喜！。《群魔》结合了从托尔斯泰到陀思妥耶夫斯基的伟大俄罗斯人的新鲜解读，以及他们继续影响的生活的悲伤和有趣的故事，是一部喜剧、人性化、迷人、凄美的作品，充满了对文学的热爱。 She thought she was a lover of the great classics of Russian literature - until she met the superfans... Roaming from Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer's strange enc...(展开全部)

Elif Batuman’s voice—unpredictable, comic, humane, ironic, charming, poignant, and completely, unpretentiously full of love for literature—has made her one of the most admired writers of her generation. Love and the novel, the individual in history, the existential plight of the graduate student: all find their place in The Possessed. Literally and metaphorically following the...(展开全部)

Roaming from Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer's strange encounters with the fanatics who are devoted - absurdly! melancholically! ecstatically! - to the Russian classics. Combining fresh readings of the great Russians from Gogol to Goncharov with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence, The Possessed introduces a ...(展开全部)

In her brilliant first book Elif Batuman takes the reader on a journey both literary and physical as she traces the evolution of her fascination with Russian literature across the globe and several centuries. This is a deeply funny, fiercely intelligent portrait of the not-always-rational pursuit of knowledge. Though Batuman lavishes attention on the specifics of her passion-an...(展开全部)

An investigative journalist's deep dive into the corrupt workings of the world's kleptocrats. From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong. Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders that prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise. Once upon a time, if an official stole money, there wasn't ...(展开全部)

"When Corporations Rule the World" explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It documents the devastating human and environmental consequences of the successful efforts of these corporations to reconstruct values and institutions everywhere on...(展开全部)

Insects represent over half of the planet’s biological diversity. This popular textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to this extraordinary diversity, and places entomology central to the theory and practice of evolutionary and ecological studies. Fully revised, this fifth edition opens with a chapter concerning the popular side of insect studies, including insects in c...(展开全部)