Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies--and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable. But fo...(展开全部)

<b>A schoolteacher fights to prove that her father’s suicide was actually murder</b><br /><br /> Ann hasn’t seen her mother in 3 years, and she doesn’t miss her at all. But without warning, Elaine shows up on her daughter’s doorstep, dead broke and hungry for scotch. Ann’s father has just come into an inheritance, and Elaine wants every penny. After a few drinks, she stumbles o...(展开全部)

作者太史文（Stephen F. Teiser），普林斯顿大学铃木大拙讲座教授、宗教学系终身教授。 太史文早年毕业于欧柏林学院，后就读于普林斯顿大学宗教学系，主攻东亚宗教，1986年获博士学位。太史文的博士论文题目为《中国中世纪的盂兰盆节》，这篇论文为他今后研究中国中世纪的民间信仰打下了基础，1988年，他在原博士论文的基础上修订出版了他的成名作——《中国中世纪的鬼节》（The Ghost Festival in Medieval China, Princeton University Press, 1988）。 译者侯旭东，清华大学人文学院历史系教授。 北京师范大学历史系博士，历任中国社会科学院历史研究所研究员、清华大学人文学院历史系教授。曾在美国哈佛大学、台湾“中研院”历史语言研究所做访问学人。主要研究魏晋南北朝史，兼及秦汉。先后从事东晋南朝经济...(展开全部)

Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities o...(展开全部)

It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ....(展开全部)

In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced - sometimes successful, sometimes not - to bring his projects to fruition. Part...(展开全部)

When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory's loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but "memento mori: reminders of the fact of death itself. And it is in this, Jay Prosser tells us, that we find the gift of photography. Engaging the photographic reflections of fi...(展开全部)

The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide--is no fairy tale. In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of sile...(展开全部)