From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe. Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will do so unilluminated. Yet the black hole collision is an event more powerful than any since the origin of the universe. The p...(展开全部)

In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Ma...(展开全部)

In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Ma...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous i...(展开全部)

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Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage—a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of th...(展开全部)

Robert Olen Butler served with the US Army in Vietnam as a Vietnamese linguist in 1971. He has published six novels since 1981, the most recent of which is The Deuce. The short stories in this collection have appeared in such places as The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded him the Emily Clark Balch Award. They have also been ant...(展开全部)

"Precisely what one expects: the most delicious bamboozling possible, bright talk, a bristle of suspicion... a neat succession of clues." -- New York Herald Tribune "The most delicious bamboozling possible." -"New York Herald Tribune" "The most delicious bamboozling possible." -New York Herald Tribune

A novel which is both playful and serious, hilarious and melancholy. It takes a journey which starts at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, and wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways.

▼作者简介 理查德•布劳提根 Richard Gary Brautigan 美国诗人、小说家、后垮掉派代表作家。他的作品中大量充斥着戏仿、讽喻与黑色幽默，小说代表作为《在美国钓鳟鱼》（1967）与《在西瓜糖中》（1968），诗歌代表作为《搁大理石茶》（1959）《避孕药与春山矿难》（1968）。他最初以诗歌创作登上文坛，第一本诗集出版于1957年，其后曾参加过“垮掉派”的活动，其后凭借着《在美国钓鳟鱼》的出版名声大噪，嬉皮士一度奉他为偶像，将其视为“爱之夏”运动的代言人。1984年，布劳提根于加州家中自杀身亡。 ▼译者简介 ☆ 陈汐 1992年生于浙江建德，先后就读于复旦大学翻译系、香港中文大学翻译系，主编并出版有诗文集《在复旦写诗》。 ☆ 肖水 1980 年生于湖南郴州，先后就读于复旦大学法学院、中文系，出版诗集《失物认领》《中文课》《艾草：新绝句...(展开全部)