迈克尔•柯林斯 大学毕业后开过出租车，做过建筑工人，一次偶然的经历让他有了成为医生的梦想。在芝加哥洛约拉大学医学院毕业后，到梅奥医疗研究中心实习，直至担任梅奥的骨外科住院总医生。后来回到家乡芝加哥开办了自己的医院，与妻子帕蒂和12个子女一起生活在那里，业余时光用来写作，还会参与The Narrowbacks乐队的表演。

In Media Hot and Cold Nicole Starosielski examines the cultural dimensions of temperature to theorize the ways heat and cold can be used as a means of communication, subjugation, and control. Diving into the history of thermal media, from infrared cameras to thermostats to torture sweatboxes, Starosielski explores the many meanings and messages of temperature. During the twenti...(展开全部)

Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings—some long, some short—that taken together forma group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists. From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary masters, paintings to comix, and saints to charlatans, Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world, an expert guide to ...(展开全部)

约翰·瓦利（美） John Varley 约翰·瓦利，美国著名科幻作家，1947年出生于美国得州奥斯汀市，毕业于密歇根州立大学，主修物理。瓦利1974年出道，随即一鸣惊人，被誉为美国20世纪70年代最为成功的科幻作家。瓦利风格独特，长篇作品是畅销榜常客，中篇作品更是被誉为“艺术品”。他曾三获雨果奖，两获星云奖，其他奖项和提名数十次，代表作有“八星”系列中的《按回车键》《蛇夫座热线》《钢铁海滩》等，多以太阳系为场景，展示近未来的人类社会。

约翰·瓦利（美） John Varley 约翰·瓦利，美国著名科幻作家，1947年出生于美国得州奥斯汀市，毕业于密歇根州立大学，主修物理。瓦利1974年出道，随即一鸣惊人，被誉为美国20世纪70年代最为成功的科幻作家。瓦利风格独特，长篇作品是畅销榜常客，中篇作品更是被誉为“艺术品”。他曾三获雨果奖，两获星云奖，其他奖项和提名数十次，代表作有“八星”系列中的《按回车键》《蛇夫座热线》《钢铁海滩》等，多以太阳系为场景，展示近未来的人类社会。

In 1977, Stephen Shore travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio – an area in the midst of industrial decline that would eventually be known as the Rust Belt. Shore met steelworkers who had been thrown out of work by plant closures and photographed their suddenly fragile world: deserted factories, lonely bars, dwindling high streets, and lovingly decorated...(展开全部)

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known--and controversial--writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them. At one level, it may be read as an account of how a puny, bookish boy discovered the importance of his own physical being; the "s...(展开全部)

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known--and controversial--writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them. At one level, it may be read as an account of how a puny, bookish boy discovered the importance of his own physical being; the "s...(展开全部)

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

拜伦•奥希是卢森堡政府顾问，为该国的收购提供咨询。 蒂姆•博凯是英国的调查记者和作家，作品出现在《名利场》、《观察者》、《读者文摘》等刊物上。