吉姆·克雷斯（Jim Crace） 1946 年出生于英国，在伦敦北区长大，大学主修英国文学。28 岁开始写作，发表第一篇散文，随后曾担任约聘记者长达16 年。 克雷斯的文笔新颖，勇于创新，曾荣获惠特布莱德文学奖、E.M. 福斯特奖、《卫报》小说奖、GAP 国际文学奖等 多项大奖，被《纽约时报》推崇为数十年来无人能出其右的英国最杰出的作家！著有《隔离》《大陆》《魔鬼的储藏室》等书。 《往生情书》是他的一部代表作，曾入围惠特布莱特奖，并荣获美国书评人协会小说奖。他的作品已被翻译成二十多种语言。

Lying in the sand dunes of Baritone Bay are the bodies of a middle-aged couple. Celice and Joseph, in their mid-50s and married for more than 30 years, are returning to the seacoast where they met as students. Instead, they are battered to death by a thief with a chunk of granite. Their corpses lie undiscovered and rotting for a week, prey to sand crabs, flies, and gulls. Yet t...(展开全部)

In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaña provides a novel account of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the content of undefeated experiences. Thi...(展开全部)

In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaña provides a novel account of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the content of undefeated experiences. Thi...(展开全部)

Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing you by the lapels while yelling disturbing facts. Handwringing in agony about “What are we going to d...(展开全部)

'To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' P.D.Smith, Guardian Why is everything we think we know about ecology wrong? Is there really any difference between 'humans' and 'nature'? Does this mean we even have a future? Don't care about ecology? This book is for you. Timothy Morton, who has been called 'Our most popular guid...(展开全部)

An ideal starting-point for those interested in Buddhism, Being Peace contains Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings on peace and meditation. Using real examples from his own life, as well as poems and fables, Nhat Hanh explains his key practices for living "right in the moment we are alive." These lessons are taught with fine writing and sparkling phrases that draw the reader in and m...(展开全部)

Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing you by the lapels while yelling disturbing facts. Handwringing in agony about “What are we going to d...(展开全部)

In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax. "Succinct and readable. . . . If you suffer from digital anxiety . . . here is a book that lays it all out for y...(展开全部)

The we is an integral part of everyday life: We solve tasks, reach decisions, and share emotions together, just as we can share a collective identity, traditions and customs. What is the nature of this we? The book discusses this question by drawing on insights from not only philosophy, but also sociology, anthropology, and social psychology. What does it take to constitute a w...(展开全部)