A brand new psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden! The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed. Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But...(展开全部)

［美］尼尔•斯蒂芬森 美国著名幻想文学作家，其作品包括科幻小说、历史小说和高科技惊险小说，题材涉及数学、哲学、宗教、金融、密码破译和科技史等多个学科领域。 出版于1992年的《雪崩》是斯蒂芬森重要的科幻作品之一，标志着他创作风格的成熟，面世后引发汹涌的赛博朋克阅读风潮。此后，他的作家生涯进入黄金期，几乎每四年便推出一部脍炙人口的大作。其中，1995年的《钻石时代》获得雨果奖；1999年的《编码宝典》及此后的“巴洛克”三部曲以破译数据密码为中心线索，结合历史小说和科技惊险小说的元素，戏剧性地重述了科技发展史，大受读者好评。其后，斯蒂芬森推出的《飞越修道院》和《七族》都成功入围雨果奖决选。

One of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels. Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison—a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibi...(展开全部)

保罗•奥斯特（Paul Auster，1947—），生于新泽西州的纽渥克市。在哥伦比亚大学念英文暨比较文学系，并获同校硕士学位。 奥斯特于1990年获美国文学与艺术学院所颁发“莫顿‧道文‧萨伯奖”，1991年以《机缘乐章》获国际笔会福克纳文学奖提名，1993年以《巨兽》获法国麦迪西文学大奖，2006年10月获颁阿斯图里亚斯王子文学奖。作品除了小说《月宫》、《纽约三部曲》、《幻影书》、《神谕之夜》、《密室中的旅行》等，还包括回忆录《孤独及其所创造的》、评论集《饥渴的艺术》及诗集《烟灭》。作品已被译成三十多国语文。 在文学创作之外，奥斯特也热衷于电影剧本写作并曾独立执导电影。目前与妻儿定居于纽约布鲁克林区。

Python Crash Course is a fast-paced, thorough introduction to Python that will have you writing programs, solving problems, and making things that work in no time. In the first half of the book, you’ll learn about basic programming concepts, such as lists, dictionaries, classes, and loops, and practice writing clean and readable code with exercises for each topic. You’ll also l...(展开全部)

Highly-charged and intensely erotic, Crash into You is perfect for fans of Destined to Play and Fifty Shades of Grey. Sometimes the past can bring you to your knees...Brynn LeBreck has dedicated herself to helping women in crisis, but things get personal when her younger sister goes missing. Having strayed on to the wrong side of the tracks, she is suspected to be hiding at The...(展开全部)

In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in...(展开全部)

No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as the guardian of a new and peaceful global order, offering ins...(展开全部)

柯裕棻（國立政治大學新聞系助理教授） 這個月在選書時稍稍猶豫了，我不知道該選《陰陽師》系列好，或是這本《潰雪》好。《陰陽師》易讀好看，結局和結構大概可預測，正是這個可預測性和固定結構令人深深著迷，它造成某種完整的連續感，已經看過的讀者會想要繼續看下去。 但是我必須選《潰雪》！原因是：《潰雪》實在是太經典的Cyber科幻小說，它非常有趣，錯過萬分可惜！正因為這書和作者在科幻界實在太知名，基本的介紹在維基百科都可查到，不想事先知道內容的朋友，必須避免在網上查詢。這書極厚，若是以消遣休閒為閱讀意圖的讀者大概無法承受此書的概念衝擊，不過呢，好的科幻小說除了給予我們閱讀想像上的快樂之外，對於我們身處的社會必須能做出準確的觀察，甚至對於發展中的科技提出可能的預測。《潰雪》無疑地都做到了，而且它聰明得讓人一邊笑一邊罵──書中對於美國聯邦政府的崩潰、企業恣意畫地為王...(展开全部)