News is to the mind what sugar is to the body. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a roomful of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practises what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop Reading the News is Dobelli's manifesto about the dangers of the most toxic ...(展开全部)

One of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, the short-lived Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Simultaneously intimate and panoramic, the narrative flows from Carlota's fevered memories of her husband's ill-fated empire to the multip...(展开全部)

阿瑟·黑利(1920-2004)，他出生英伦，参加皇家空军征战二战，写尽美国社会百态之后，终老于巴哈马，但更愿承认自己是加拿大人。 他的小说改编成电影，引领好莱坞的灾难片风潮；他的小说改编成电视剧，创造出历史最高的收视纪录。 他的小说入选MBA教材，成为从业人员的必读之书；他的小说入选英文课本，是学习写作的经典范本。 他是畅销书之父，作品被译作38种语言，总销量17亿册。他无时无刻不在编织故事，一天却只能创作600字。 他是行业小说之王，人们从他的小说里了解空港经营、酒店管理、媒体运作、金融内幕，他却谦虚道：“我就是个讲故事的人，读者的其他收获不过是偶然罢了。”

Tout bouge, marche, court, rampe ou vole… Notre planète tout entière et l'univers lui-même ne sont jamais au repos. Ce grand livre documentaire nous raconte la beauté, l'histoire et les mystères de ces mouvements. Nous y faisons d'innombrables rencontres, des sternes reliant les deux pôles aux navigateurs vikings, des inventeurs chinois de la boussole à la sonde spatiale Voyage...(展开全部)

Parue en 1980, L'Ecriture du désastre porte à un point d'incandescence l'écriture fragmentaire telle que Blanchot avait pu la pratiquer, dans Le Pas au-delà notamment. Le texte est composé de fragments d'inégale longueur dont certains étaient antérieurement parus en revue. C'est une polyphonie, un jeu de reformulation perpétuelle, où chaque fragment a valeur d'éclat, ruinant to...(展开全部)

Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology. She proposes an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice. She does so in the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling, not only in contemporary anthropology, but in all acts of ...(展开全部)

露丝·贝哈（Ruth Behar，1956— ），犹太古巴裔美国作家，密歇根大学人类学系教授，代表作除本书外还有《被转述的女性》（Translated Woman，1993）。

在线阅读本书 Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation paradise; it is to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister. The hand of fate and family tensions frustrate the planned reunion, however. And surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, girls looking for Mr Right, a freel...(展开全部)

From the witty author of Nice Work comes a story of a group of British tourists whose trip to Hawaii isn't quite what anyone bargained for. "Wonderfully entertaining . . . a welcome addition to a rich and diverting oeuvre".-- New York Times Book Review.

社畜李晨阳在加班的时候遇到绿色流感爆发，从公司逃出来的他听到广播前往酒店撤离点，没想到没有赶上撤离的飞机，和他一样没赶上的还有4人。