The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings. In "East Wind" a divorced estate agent falls in love with a European waitress, but is tempted, despite ...(展开全部)

Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of “physiological aesthetics,” which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate beauty and art, changed the way poets, artists, and musicians worked and brought a ...(展开全部)

After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of , Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye. From an imperial capital in the eighteenth century to Garibaldi’s adventures in the nineteenth, from the vineyards of Italy to the Eng...(展开全部)

Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She's chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may n...(展开全部)

Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She's chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may n...(展开全部)

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history:the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York Cit...(展开全部)

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history:the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York Cit...(展开全部)

尼·奥斯特洛夫斯基（1904-1936），苏联作家。出生在乌克兰一个贫困的工人家庭，11岁便开始当童工。1919年加入共青团，随即参加国内战争。1923年到1924年担任乌克兰边境地区共青团的领导工作，1924年加入共产党。由于他长期参加艰苦斗争，健康受到严重损害，到1927年，健康情况急剧恶化，但他毫不屈服，以惊人的毅力同病魔作斗争。同年底，他着手创作一篇关于科托夫斯基师团的“历史抒情英雄故事”（即《暴风雨所诞生的》）。不幸的是，唯一一份手稿在寄给朋友们审读时被邮局弄丢了。这一残酷的打击并没有挫败他的坚强意志，反而使他更加顽强地同疾病作斗争。 1929年，他全身瘫痪，双目失明。1930年，他用自己的战斗经历作素材，以顽强的意志开始创作长篇小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》。小说获得了巨大成功，受到同时代人的真诚而热烈的称赞。1934年，奥斯特洛夫斯基被吸收为...(展开全部)

Flashing across galaxies to track the enemy, undaunted by impossible odds, Slippery Jim diGriz embarks on another perilous mission in the saga of the Stainless Steel Rat.<br /><br />An irreverent superhero who doesn’t take anything (including himself) too seriously, Jim diGriz is never above a little mischief. Indeed, he and his winsome bridge, Angelina, indulging in a bit of h...(展开全部)

Flashing across galaxies to track the enemy, undaunted by impossible odds, Slippery Jim diGriz embarks on another perilous mission in the saga of the Stainless Steel Rat.<br /><br />An irreverent superhero who doesn’t take anything (including himself) too seriously, Jim diGriz is never above a little mischief. Indeed, he and his winsome bridge, Angelina, indulging in a bit of h...(展开全部)