《幽巷谋杀案》内容简介：阿加莎·克里斯蒂被誉为举世公认的侦探推理小说女王。她的著作英文版销售量逾10亿册，而且还被译成百余种文字，销售量亦逾10亿册。她一生创作了80部侦探小说和短篇故事集，19部剧本，以及6部以玛丽·维斯特麦考特的笔名出版的小说。著作数量之丰仅次于莎士比亚。 随着克里斯蒂笔下创造出的文学史上最杰出、最受欢迎的侦探形象波洛，和以女性直觉、人性关怀见长的马普尔小姐的面世，如今克里斯蒂这个名字的象征意义几近等同于“侦探推理小说”。 阿加莎·克里斯蒂的第一部小说《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》写于第一次世界大战末，战时她担任志愿救护队员。在这部小说中她塑造了一个可爱的小个子比利时侦探赫尔克里·波洛，他成为继福尔摩斯之后侦探小说中最受读者欢迎的侦探形象。《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》经过数次退稿后，最终于1920年由博得利·黑德出版公司出版。 Murder, s...(展开全部)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fifth novel.When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. ...(展开全部)

It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay. Endless reams of artists unspool at the click of a button. New forms of musical discovery open up before your very eyes. This evolving digital landscape exists beyond the radio, HMV and even the most extensive record collection. You've entered a whole n...(展开全部)

Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of...(展开全部)

A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. ThinkSHADOW OF THE WINDmeets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDERis an inventive tour de force inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protégé and rival Carl Jung.When a wealthy young debutante is discovered bound, whipped and strangled in a ...(展开全部)

We live in an age of images — the first pictures of Earth from space; nuclear bomb mushroom clouds; Vesalius’s haunting human anatomy pictures — iconic and influential images. John Barrow traces their history and influence to tell the story of modern science.

We live in a visual age-an age of images; iconic, instant, and influential. In this remarkable book, John D. Barrow traces their history in order to tell the story of modern science. Some images, such as Robert Hooke's first microscopic views of the natural world or the stunning images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, were made possible by our new technical capabilities. Ot...(展开全部)

We live in a visual age, an age of images iconic, instant, and influential that have crystallized our conception of the large, the small, and the complex, of both inner and outer space. Some, like Robert Hooke's first microscopic views of the natural world, arose because of new technical capabilities. Others, like the first graphs, were breathtakingly simple but perennially use...(展开全部)

We live in an age of images — the first pictures of Earth from space; nuclear bomb mushroom clouds; Vesalius’s haunting human anatomy pictures — iconic and influential images. John Barrow traces their history and influence to tell the story of modern science.

We live in a visual age-an age of images; iconic, instant, and influential. In this remarkable book, John D. Barrow traces their history in order to tell the story of modern science. Some images, such as Robert Hooke's first microscopic views of the natural world or the stunning images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, were made possible by our new technical capabilities. Ot...(展开全部)