"Fans of TV's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" should be in heaven" ("People") stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs' electrifyingly authentic bestsellers.She has a passion for the truth . . . and this time, it's taking her down.A commercial airliner disaster has brought Tempe Brennan to the North Carolina mountains as a...(展开全部)

Temperance Brennan hears the news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down, taking with it eighty-eight passengers and crew. As a forensic anthropologist and a member of the regional DMORT team, Tempe rushes to the scene to assist in body recovery and identification. She finds a field of carnage: torsos in trees, limbs strewn among bursting suitcases and smold...(展开全部)

凯西•莱克斯Kathy Reichs（1950— ） 凯西•莱克斯出生于芝加哥，在西北大学获得博士学位。身兼美国北卡罗来纳州医事检查处的刑事人类学家，以及加拿大魁北克省犯罪暨法医研究所的法医。她是全美刑事人类学协会十五名检定合格的法医之一，也是美国法医科学协会的成员，并担任刑事审判的常任专家证人，此外，她还在北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校担任社会人类学教授，经常来回奔波于夏洛特和蒙特利尔两地。 她的第一本小说《听，骨头在说话》不但荣登《纽约时报》畅销排行榜，更荣获一九九七年的“阿瑟•埃利斯”最佳处女作小说奖。而后续的《死亡的颜色》、《致命的抉择》、《战栗的航程》、《墓穴的秘密》以及《白骨的阴谋》，本本均登上畅销排行榜，并成为国际级畅销书。

【圖書館期刊】：『萊克斯的作品之所以吸引人，不僅在於幾乎毫無破綻的劇情安排，以及將法醫知識巧妙融入情節之中，更在於她的主角所展現的一種可親特質，以及動人的溫暖心靈。』 【好書情報】：『凱絲．萊克斯描寫法醫辦案的系列小說……在法醫的專業領域或是故事情節上，讓讀者著迷而深陷其中。』 【出版家週刊】：『萊克斯作品所具備的閱讀樂趣依然不減！』 【亞馬遜網路書店】：『法醫工作中沉重的技術性問題及相關的科學資訊，在作者巧妙的故事包裝下，顯得格外吸引人。』 我凝視著這位掛在樹上的女人。她的頭向前伸，下巴揚起，雙手向後延展，像極了勞斯萊斯轎車車頭引擎蓋上那尊鉻合金女神。只不過，樹上的這位女士是赤裸的，而且上半身只到腰部，以下全不見了。她已無生命的軀體，就這樣被禁錮在被鮮血染紅的葉片和枝椏之間…… 一架載滿大學生的飛機，墜毀在荒無人煙的山區，現場一片凌亂。空難發生之後...(展开全部)

让·波德里亚（Jean Baudrillard，1929—2007），法国哲学家、社会学家、后现代理论家。先后任教于巴黎十大和巴黎九大，撰写了一系列分析当代社会文化现象、批判当代资本主义的著作，产生了广泛的世界性影响。其代表作主要有《物体系》《消费社会》《生产之镜》《象征交换与死亡》《论诱惑》《美国》《完美的罪行》及系列随笔《冷记忆》等。

露丝·斯科尔（Ruth Scurr），1971年生，曾在牛津大学和剑桥大学求学，获剑桥大学政治学博士学位，现在剑桥大学讲授政治学和历史学课程。她还是一位出色的文化批评家，是《纽约书评》《泰晤士报文学副刊》撰稿人。本书一经出版即得到知识界关注，引起热烈反响。

Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale and fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing his sky-blue coat and decreeing a new religion for France. Robespierre and th...(展开全部)

At Harvard, tenure decisions are a matter of life -- or death. For Dennis Gossen, the economics department whiz kid currently being considered for tenure, it's definitely death. When he's turned down by the high-and-mighty Promotion and Tenure Committee, Gossen commits suicide. A Question of Cost Accounting... Or does he? It's hard to imagine why a young man with a brilliant sc...(展开全部)

The humming noise of the automatic elevator stopped and the hall porter glanced idly toward the bronze doors. Twenty minutes later, when no one had emerged, the porter became uneasy and forced the doors open. Inside he found Sir Ernest Tallant, dead! Shot through the heart in a hermetically sealed elevator! It looked like the perfect crime - until Dr. Horatio Glass, in his blun...(展开全部)

The humming noise of the automatic elevator stopped and the hall porter glanced idly toward the bronze doors. Twenty minutes later, when no one had emerged, the porter became uneasy and forced the doors open. Inside he found Sir Ernest Tallant, dead! Shot through the heart in a hermetically sealed elevator! It looked like the perfect crime - until Dr. Horatio Glass, in his blun...(展开全部)