凯瑟琳•拉丝基 美国著名作家，已出版“绝境狼王”系列等70多部作品，曾荣获纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖、美国全国犹太图书奖、美国图书馆协会颁发的ALA最佳童书奖。她还是《波士顿环球报》奖、《华盛顿邮报》儿童图书协会奖得主。 从开始写作至今，狼、猫头鹰、熊等动物一直是凯瑟琳•拉丝基爱好、研究的对象。借丈夫任职美国《国家地理》摄影记者、纪录片制片人之便，凯瑟琳•拉丝基有机会深入动物的生存环境，观察动物习性，了解它们的生存习性与生活细节。真实细致的习性描摹、瑰丽多彩的文学想象与优雅传神的文学笔墨，使她赢得美国“动物奇幻小说女王”的美誉。

The recent financial crisis was an accident, a "perfect storm" fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. And policy makers? They did everything they could, given their limited authority. It was all a terrible, unavoidable accident. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of luminarie...(展开全部)

The recent financial crisis was an accident, a "perfect storm" fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. And policy makers? They did everything they could, given their limited authority. It was all a terrible, unavoidable accident. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of luminarie...(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。

◎近年來最重要、最令世界文壇驚艷的英語小說最高傑作！我是Pi，我和一隻巨無霸的孟加拉虎在太平洋上的一艘救生艇『狹路相逢』，為什麼會這樣？說來話長，就別提了，現在最要緊的是，我要如何對付這隻叫理查•帕克的老虎？ 計畫一：把牠推下救生艇。可那有什麼用？就算推下去了，老虎也是游泳健將，而我一定會因此付出代價的。 計畫二：用六劑嗎啡殺了牠。牠會乖乖的讓你連續注射六支嗎？不可能！我要是拿針筒戳牠，牠肯定會賞我一虎掌。 計畫三：用手邊找得到的武器攻擊牠。神經病！我又不是泰山，如果我真能在牠身上劃出一道小傷口，那我倒真成了超人了。 計畫四：勒死牠。 計畫五：毒死牠，燒死牠，電死牠。哼，可真是找死的好計畫！ 計畫六：長期抗戰，消耗敵人。我只需要讓嚴厲的大自然執行它的法則，坐著等牠日漸消瘦、飢渴而死，我一點力氣都不用花。我心底燃起了微弱的希望之火，就如...(展开全部)

弗里曼·戴森（Freeman Dyson），现任普林斯顿高等研究院的荣誉退休教授，他不仅是一位杰出的科学家，而且也是一位天赋异禀的作家；同时也是伦敦皇家学会会员、美国国家科学院院士，获十八个荣誉学位。他的著作包括《全方位的无限》、《武器与希望》、《宇宙波澜》、《想象的未来》、《太阳、基因组与互联网》、《从爱神到盖娅》等。

How did life on Earth originate? Did replication or metabolism come first in the history of life? In the second edition of the acclaimed Origins of Life, distinguished scientist and science writer Freeman Dyson examines these questions and discusses the two main theories that try to explain how naturally occurring chemicals could organize themselves into living creatures. The m...(展开全部)

As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays and lectures, Canguilhem offers a series of epistemological histories that see...(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。

This novel is considered the greatest work of fiction by the Brazilian writer the New York Times Book Review called “the premier Latin American woman prose writer of this century.” An intense and lyrical work, it chronicles its female protagonist’s journey of self-discovery and self-affirmation. This novel is considered the greatest work of fiction by the Brazilian writer the N...(展开全部)