加思·里斯克·霍尔伯格（Garth Risk Hallberg） 美国作家、评论家。华盛顿大学文学学士，纽约大学艺术硕士。出版有中篇小说《北美家庭图鉴》（A Field Guide to the North American Family），短篇故事和批评散文多发表于《纽约时报》《纽约时报书评》《卫报》等媒体。 加思·里斯克·霍尔伯格耗时七年完成《燃烧之城》。这部近千页的处女作以两百万美元的竞价震惊欧美文坛，成为2015年当之无愧的话题之书。

New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city’s great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown’s punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor—and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to ...(展开全部)

Summary Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems. This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley–led technophilia. This b...(展开全部)

罗伯特·D. 理查德森（Robert D. Richardson, Jr.），出生于1934年，美国历史学家、传记作家，哈佛大学博士，出生于美国威斯康星州密尔沃基市，曾在爱默生的故乡康科德生活过。曾于1990年获得古根海姆奖，于2007年获得美国历史学界最高奖班克罗夫特奖，并获得过美国历史学家协会颁发的帕克曼奖等。其传记作品《梭罗传：瓦尔登湖畔的心灵人生》《爱默生传：激情似火的思想家》被认为是“当代美国文学研究的伟大成就之一”。

From Publishers Weekly The maverick intellectual life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) is the focus of this imposing, highly erudite biography. In 1832, Emerson resigned his Boston ministry to pursue a career as an essayist, orator and poet, delivering more than 1500 lectures in his lifetime, including "The American Scholar" (1837), and publishing essays such as Nature (1836) a...(展开全部)

This is simply the world's most useful book for personal investors who want to rely less on the so-called "experts" and more on their own intelligence and knowledge. The author presents systematic value and growth strategies that draw on the best ideas from more than 20 of the world's leading money managers -- and shows you how to implement each strategy step-by-step, using fre...(展开全部)

Humanity's ancient dream of immortality is on the verge of becoming reality in the challenging new novel from erstwhile William Gibson (see below) collaborator Sterling (Heavy Weather, 1994, etc.). In Sterling's late 21st century, advances in cybernetics, nano- and virtual technology and medicine have transformed Earth into a near paradise. Vice and illness still exist, but the...(展开全部)

布鲁斯·斯特林（1954— ） 美国著名科幻小说家，赛博朋克文学运动领军人物，雨果奖、阿瑟·克拉克奖、约翰·W.坎贝尔纪念奖等重要科幻文学奖项得主。斯特林主要创作赛博朋克科幻小说，他因在赛博朋克领域的杰出贡献而被冠以“布鲁斯主席”的称号。代表作品除本书《圣火》外，还有《差分机》《分裂矩阵》《网络岛》《全球大脑》等。 他创办的科幻史上重要杂志《廉价真理》为一众赛博朋克风格作家提供了出版阵地，成为世界科幻文学界里程碑式事件，直接关系到赛博朋克文化的成型与未来发展的方向。科幻文学经典作品——威廉·吉布森《神经漫游者》就刊载在此杂志的创刊号上。

[应版权方要求,该小说已经下架,请大家支持正版阅读~]传说神圣之血一族是压制妖魔的神的使者，神武四麒麟守护着他们。然而在几十年前，随着月光女神死于非命，四麒麟全部失踪。追回四麒麟、寻找月光女神的死因、破坏背叛者的阴谋……成为了候补继承者的首要任务。在继承人候补离开神圣一族、留在人间之时，又有什...

In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.