乔伊斯•卡罗尔•欧茨（1938— ），美国当代著名小说家，美国文学与艺术学院院士，两度进入诺奖最后提名，被誉为“女福克纳”。欧茨素以揭露美国社会的暴力行径和罪恶现象而闻名，其作品在整体上构成了一幅当代美国社会的全景图。自1963年出版首部短篇小说集《北门边》以来，欧茨一直活跃于美国文坛，勤于笔耕，迄今已发表长篇小说四十余部。代表作品有《表姐妹》《他们》《人间乐园》《漆黑的水》《大瀑布》等。

乔伊斯•卡罗尔•欧茨（1938— ），美国当代著名小说家，美国文学与艺术学院院士，两度进入诺奖最后提名，被誉为“女福克纳”。欧茨素以揭露美国社会的暴力行径和罪恶现象而闻名，其作品在整体上构成了一幅当代美国社会的全景图。自1963年出版首部短篇小说集《北门边》以来，欧茨一直活跃于美国文坛，勤于笔耕，迄今已发表长篇小说四十余部。代表作品有《表姐妹》《他们》《人间乐园》《漆黑的水》《大瀑布》等。

Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, t...(展开全部)

The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War--an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale".--Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine....(展开全部)

TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutio...(展开全部)

TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutio...(展开全部)

乔伊斯•卡罗尔•欧茨（1938— ），美国当代著名小说家，美国文学与艺术学院院士，两度进入诺奖最后提名，被誉为“女福克纳”。欧茨素以揭露美国社会的暴力行径和罪恶现象而闻名，其作品在整体上构成了一幅当代美国社会的全景图。自1963年出版首部短篇小说集《北门边》以来，欧茨一直活跃于美国文坛，勤于笔耕，迄今已发表长篇小说四十余部。代表作品有《表姐妹》《他们》《人间乐园》《漆黑的水》《大瀑布》等。

乔伊斯•卡罗尔•欧茨（1938— ），美国当代著名小说家，美国文学与艺术学院院士，两度进入诺奖最后提名，被誉为“女福克纳”。欧茨素以揭露美国社会的暴力行径和罪恶现象而闻名，其作品在整体上构成了一幅当代美国社会的全景图。自1963年出版首部短篇小说集《北门边》以来，欧茨一直活跃于美国文坛，勤于笔耕，迄今已发表长篇小说四十余部。代表作品有《表姐妹》《他们》《人间乐园》《漆黑的水》《大瀑布》等。

This is a study of the meaning of gender as framed by the swan maiden tale, a story found in the folklore of virtually every culture. The swan maiden is a supernatural woman forced to marry, keep house, and bear children for a mortal man who holds the key to her imprisonment. When she manages to regain this key, she escapes to the otherworld, never to return. These tales have ...(展开全部)