When Toru Kamiya is pushed into falsely confessing his love to Maori Hino, she tells him she’ll date him on three conditions. 1) Don’t talk to her until after school. 2) Keep any communication between them concise. 3) Don’t really fall in love. Unfortunately, he isn’t able to keep the last rule—and when he tells her how he feels, she reveals that she has an illness that prevent...(展开全部)

Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And...(展开全部)

The Kingdom of this World (Spanish: El Reino de este Mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, first published in 1949. It tells the story of Haiti before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution. It is an important work in the development of magical realism.

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904—1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠，“文学爆炸”的先驱。他在《人间王国》的序言中首次提出“神奇现实”的概念，将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起到了巨大的推动作用，被马尔克斯、富恩特斯、略萨等一批大师尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。文学之外，他在历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画等方面皆有颇高造诣，是一位难得的百科全书式作家。 1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对当时的古巴独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。1959年古巴革命胜利，卡彭铁尔结束流亡回到国内，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的作品包括长篇小说《人间王国》《光明世纪》《消逝的足迹》，短篇小说集《时间之战》以及几部音乐、文学评论集等。由于他在文学事业上...(展开全部)

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904—1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠，“文学爆炸”的先驱。他在《人间王国》的序言中首次提出“神奇现实”的概念，将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起到了巨大的推动作用，被马尔克斯、富恩特斯、略萨等一批大师尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。文学之外，他在历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画等方面皆有颇高造诣，是一位难得的百科全书式作家。 1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对当时的古巴独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。1959年古巴革命胜利，卡彭铁尔结束流亡回到国内，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的作品包括长篇小说《人间王国》《光明世纪》《消逝的足迹》，短篇小说集《时间之战》以及几部音乐、文学评论集等。由于他在文学事业上...(展开全部)

威廉•朱利叶斯•威尔逊（William Julius Wilson），美国著名社会学家，生于1935年，1966年获得华盛顿州立大学博士学位，1972年至1996年在芝加哥大学任教，后转入哈佛大学，于约翰•F•肯尼迪政府学院任教授，主要研究领域为民权、种族、贫困问题以及社会与城市政策。曾经担任美国社会学协会主席，获得过四十多个荣誉学位，包括耶鲁大学、普林斯顿大学、哥伦比亚大学等校的荣誉博士学位。他也是美国国家科学院院士。1996年，他被《时代》杂志评为美国最有影响力的二十五人之一。1998年获得了美国科学界的最高荣誉“国家科学勋章”。

Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fathe...(展开全部)

Biology until recently has been the neglected stepchild of science, and many educated people have little grasp of how biology explains the natural world. Yet to address the major political and moral questions that face us today, we must acquire an understanding of their biological roots. This magisterial new book by Ernst Mayr will go far to remedy this situation. An eye...(展开全部)

Biology until recently has been the neglected stepchild of science, and many educated people have little grasp of how biology explains the natural world. Yet to address the major political and moral questions that face us today, we must acquire an understanding of their biological roots. This magisterial new book by Ernst Mayr will go far to remedy this situation. An eye...(展开全部)

Since the mid-1980s, the British cartoonist Chris Reynolds has been assembling a world all his own. On the surface, it seems much like ours: a place of cool afternoon shadows and gently rolling hills, half-empty trains and sleepy downtown streets. But the closer you look, the weirder it gets. After losing a mysterious intergalactic war, Earth is no longer in humanity’s control....(展开全部)