What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the U.S.; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredie...(展开全部)

What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the U.S.; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredie...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·金 1947年生于美国缅因州波特兰市，后在缅因大学学习英语文学。1973年出版第一部长篇小说《魔女嘉莉》，随即大获成功。迄今已出版40多部长篇小说和200多篇短篇小说，代表作有《肖申克的救赎》《它》《重生》《睡美人》《守夜》等，被《时代》周刊誉为“无可争议的惊悚小说大师”。有超过百部影视作品取材或改编自他的小说。2003年获美国国家图书基金会颁发的“杰出贡献奖”，2004年获“世界奇幻文学奖”的“终身成就奖”，2007年获美国推理作家协会“爱伦·坡奖”的“大师奖”。 《世事无常》是他2002年出版的短篇小说集，14个故事中有11个曾被改编为影视剧。其中，《黑衣人》获欧·亨利短篇小说奖，《骑弹飞行》创下24小时售出电子书40万册的成绩，把斯蒂芬·金送上了《时代》周刊的封面。

In this delightful story we meet Fritzl,a farmer who lives with his wife Liesi,their baby kinndli,and Spitz,their dog.Fritzl works hard in the fields every day.Liesi works hard all day,too,but Fritzl somehow feels that he works harder.

In this delightful story we meet Fritzl,a farmer who lives with his wife Liesi,their baby kinndli,and Spitz,their dog.Fritzl works hard in the fields every day.Liesi works hard all day,too,but Fritzl somehow feels that he works harder.

Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation into her abduction, the police have uncovered nothing. And as the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone – vanished so completely that she seems never to have existed. Then a second child d...(展开全部)

Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. Y...(展开全部)

Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. Y...(展开全部)

The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an ...(展开全部)