东野圭吾（1958- ），1958年2月4日生于大阪府大阪市生野区，日本著名作家。 大学毕业后成为日本电装株式会社的技术人员。一边工作，一边创作推理小说。 1985年以校园青春推理小说《放学后》（放課後）获第31届江户川乱步奖正式出道。以27岁的年龄获得大奖，令其创作信心大增，遂毅然辞职奔赴东京，开始了自己的职业作家的道路。 1998年以《秘密》获第52届日本推理作家协会奖（长篇部门），并改编成同名电影，由广末凉子和小林薰主演。 1999年推出时序跨越十九年，细腻描写主角与周遭人物的犯罪小说《白夜行》之后，风格越见圆熟，作品质地进入了全新的境界。 2006年以《嫌疑犯X的献身》横扫日本推理小说三大排行榜——“这本推理小说了不起！”、“周刊文春推理小说BEST10”、"本格推理小说 BEST10”，并同时拿下第6届本格推理小说大奖（小说部门）和代表日本...(展开全部)

东野圭吾（1958- ），1958年2月4日生于大阪府大阪市生野区，日本著名作家。 大学毕业后成为日本电装株式会社的技术人员。一边工作，一边创作推理小说。 1985年以校园青春推理小说《放学后》（放課後）获第31届江户川乱步奖正式出道。以27岁的年龄获得大奖，令其创作信心大增，遂毅然辞职奔赴东京，开始了自己的职业作家的道路。 1998年以《秘密》获第52届日本推理作家协会奖（长篇部门），并改编成同名电影，由广末凉子和小林薰主演。 1999年推出时序跨越十九年，细腻描写主角与周遭人物的犯罪小说《白夜行》之后，风格越见圆熟，作品质地进入了全新的境界。 2006年以《嫌疑犯X的献身》横扫日本推理小说三大排行榜——“这本推理小说了不起！”、“周刊文春推理小说BEST10”、"本格推理小说 BEST10”，并同时拿下第6届本格推理小说大奖（小说部门）和代表日本...(展开全部)

Umberto Eco 翁贝托·埃科（1932-2016） 欧洲重要的公共知识分子、小说家、符号学家、美学家、史学家、哲学家。 出生于意大利亚历山德里亚，博洛尼亚大学教授。著有大量小说和随笔作品，如《玫瑰的名字》《傅科摆》《昨日之岛》《波多里诺》《洛阿娜女王的神秘火焰》《布拉格公墓》《试刊号》和《密涅瓦火柴盒》等。

A posthumous collection of essays about the modern world from one of Europe’s greatest, and best-selling, literary figures Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideologi...(展开全部)

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A gen...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers. Saint Augustine follows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequen...(展开全部)

Known for speaking with the birds, for professing poverty, receiving the stigmata and for initiating the Franciscan order, Francis of Assisi is one of the most radical and inspiring figures in church history. In this celebrated biography, now available in English for the first time, the distinguished medieval scholar Jacques Le Goff paints a detailed picture of the life of F...(展开全部)

Known for speaking with the birds, for professing poverty, receiving the stigmata and for initiating the Franciscan order, Francis of Assisi is one of the most radical and inspiring figures in church history. In this celebrated biography, now available in English for the first time, the distinguished medieval scholar Jacques Le Goff paints a detailed picture of the life of F...(展开全部)

作者威尔斯两度获得美国图书评论界奖，1992年因《林肯在葛底斯堡》一书荣膺普利策奖，他是美国艺术和文学学会以及美国艺术与科学学院成员，并获得HEW总统勋章。

In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admit to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a tra...(展开全部)