"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books

It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth. The water of the polar ice cap, the most important resource for all the Mars colonies, is jointly controlled by the US, China, Japan and Russia, and doled out to the second-tier colonizing groups (Europe, Canada, Australia, India) only grud...(展开全部)

The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path.The Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Salt Path

Winner of the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year!'Reginald Hill is on stunning form!the climax is devastating' Marcel Berlins, The Times When Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a bizarre murder across the street from his own back garden, he is quite sure he knows who the culprit is. After all, he's seen him with his own eyes. But what exactly does ...(展开全部)

A young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel—a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya—available here in a new translation and with previously censored material restored. This novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of th...(展开全部)

A young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel—a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya—available here in a new translation and with previously censored material restored. This novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of th...(展开全部)

马克斯·皮卡德（Max Picard，1888-1965），瑞士著名哲学家，作为20世纪为数不多的柏拉图式的重要思想家，其作品受到了加布里埃尔·马塞尔、海德格尔、里尔克、荷尔德林等思想家的影响，同时也受到战后现代保守主义的熏陶，注重对一个破碎世界的重塑和恢复。

Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto (born 1957) trained as an oil painter before discovering that photography was the ideal medium for the theme that most interested him-the ability of the image to evoke memories. Small Things in Silence surveys the 20-year career of one of Japan's most important photographers. Yamamoto's portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into sma...(展开全部)

Marie Nimier, auteur de huit romans publiés aux éditions Gallimard, ose avec ce nouveau livre s'attacher à la figure de son père, Roger Nimier, qui connut la célébrité dans les années cinquante et soixante, jusqu'à sa mort tragique dont la presse se fit l'écho – une mort dont les circonstances furent si bien cachées à la fillette que la rumeur devint vacarme. Marie Nimier explo...(展开全部)

约翰•凯奇（John Cage, 1912-1992），美国作曲家，哲学家，诗人，音乐理论家，版画 复制匠，业余真菌学家。作为打击乐、机遇音乐、电子音乐的开拓者，凯奇是20世纪最有影响的美国作曲家之一。与此同时，在与舞蹈家梅尔塞•坎宁安等人的交往中，凯奇也推动了美国现代舞的发展。1961年出版的著作《沉默》奠定了他作为音乐思想家的地位。凯奇的思想深受东方的禅宗、周易思想的影响，他最出名的作品当属《4分33秒》（1952）。