In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appe...(展开全部)

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In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materialit...(展开全部)

Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca, "the island of the wind", and it is in his house there, with a study full of books and a garden taken over by cacti and many insects, that the 533 days of writing take place. The result is not a diary, nor a set of movements of the soul organised by dates...(展开全部)

Charles C. Pinter is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bucknell University.

With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling. From the first words of an infant t...(展开全部)

Detective John Blacksad returns, with a new case that takes him to a 1950s New Orleans filled with hot jazz and cold-blooded murder! Hired to discover the fate of a celebrated pianist, Blacksad finds his most dangerous mystery yet in the midst of drugs, voodoo, the rollicking atmosphere of Mardi Gras, and the dark underbelly that it hides! * Features an extensive making-of sect...(展开全部)

Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first in lasting cultural importance. It is here that the classic biblical themes of oppression and redemption, of human enslavement and divine salvation, are most dramatically expressed. Joel Baden tells the story of this influential and enduring book, tracing how its famous account of the Israelites’ journey to th...(展开全部)

保罗·奥斯特，1947年出生于新泽西的纽瓦克市，集小说家、诗人、剧作家、译者、电影导演等多重身份于一身，被视为是美国当代最勇于创新的小说家之一。他1947年出生于新泽西州的纽渥克市，从哥伦比亚大学毕业后曾在法国生活数年。年轻时过着漂泊无定的生活，不断尝试各种工作，甚至曾参加舞团的排练，只因为“观看男男女女在空间中移动让他充满了陶醉感”。 主要作品有小说《纽约三部曲》、《幻影书》、《在地图结束的地方》、《命运之音》、《海怪》以及回忆录《孤独及其所创造的》等，曾获获法国美第奇文学奖，美国约翰·克林顿文学杰出贡献奖，西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王子文学奖，作品被翻译成30种文字，他也是每年冲击诺贝尔文学奖的有力人选之一。 他编剧并导演的电影作品有《烟》、《面有忧色》和《桥上的露露》，其中《烟》在1996年获得柏林电影节银熊奖和最佳编剧奖，并受邀成为1997年戛纳影展...(展开全部)