As young Jake Horner’s mind became an increasingly paralyzing cobweb of dark thoughts, he turned for help to an extraordinary doctor―part saint, part evil-genius, a weird combination of faith healer, magician, and devil. And in so doing Jake found himself following a drastic prescription that was to draw him into a strange, compulsive relationship. It is around the startling re...(展开全部)

In 1984 Sebastião Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, Salgado documented the enormous suffer...(展开全部)

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes―both human and literary―that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird...(展开全部)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

迈克尔·夏邦（Michael Chabon，1963年—），当代美国作家，被誉为“塞林格接班人”。1963年生于华盛顿特区犹太裔家庭，先后就读于卡内基梅隆大学和匹兹堡大学，并在加州大学欧文分校获得创意写作硕士学位。夏邦集普利策小说奖得主，星云、雨果、轨迹、侧面四项科幻大奖得主，好莱坞编剧于一身，曾任电影《蜘蛛侠2》与《异星战场》的编剧。 首部长篇小说《匹兹堡的秘密》（The Mysteries of Pittsburgh）创下当时新人小说作品预付版税纪录的新高，1988年出版后，在《纽约时报》排行榜上连续停留十二周。1992年，夏邦出版小说集《大千世界》（A Model World and Other Stories），收录了发表于《纽约客》等刊物上的短篇作品。随后《奇迹小子》（Wonder Boys）的出版，确立了夏邦在美国文坛的地位。2000年出...(展开全部)

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD is set in the Kingdom of Arran, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, A.D. 950. It tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soulmates, variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists - until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles that follow a bloody coup in t...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

作者介绍 约翰·霍根（John Horgan）是《科学美国人》杂志《Scientific American》（其中文版为《环球科学》）的资深撰稿人。他曾两度获美国科学促进会新闻与社会关系促进奖。他著有四本书，包括《科学的终结》(The End of Science，Addison Wesley，1996)和《战争的终结》（The End of War，McSweeney's, 2012）。他的文章登载在《纽约时报书评》《发现》《新科学家》《科学》和《集萃》等杂志上。《科学美国人》是美国历史最长的、一直连续出版的杂志，也是著名的《科学》（Science）的姊妹刊。大众化的高水平学术期刊，有151位诺贝尔奖得主撰稿。自2005年起，霍根就职于史蒂文斯理工学院（Stevens Institute of Technology，全美工程类大学排名前五，毕业生就...(展开全部)