Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she's beautiful. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up, semi-employed little sister to straighten up and fly right...(展开全部)

纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布（Nassim Nicholas Taleb） 我们这个时代伟大的思想者之一。当今令人敬畏的风险管理理论学者，被誉为拥有“罕见的勇气与博学”。塔勒布倾其一生研究不确定性、概率和知识的问题。他撰写了50篇学术论文来探讨“不确定性”，内容涉及国际关系、风险管理、统计物理学。主要研究课题是“在不透明环境下的决策”，为引导我们如何生活在一个我们并不理解的世界中提供指南或原则。 在成为一个全职作家和学术研究者之前，塔勒布做了20年的商人和交易员。现在受聘于纽约大学理工学院，任风险工程学特聘教授。

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute...(展开全部)

纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布（Nassim Nicholas Taleb） 我们这个时代伟大的思想者之一。当今令人敬畏的风险管理理论学者，被誉为拥有“罕见的勇气与博学”。塔勒布倾其一生研究不确定性、概率和知识的问题。他撰写了50篇学术论文来探讨“不确定性”，内容涉及国际关系、风险管理、统计物理学。主要研究课题是“在不透明环境下的决策”，为引导我们如何生活在一个我们并不理解的世界中提供指南或原则。 在成为一个全职作家和学术研究者之前，塔勒布做了20年的商人和交易员。现在受聘于纽约大学理工学院，任风险工程学特聘教授。

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute...(展开全部)

From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home While on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods, our protagonist comes across a note, ha...(展开全部)

In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by such movies as "Silence of the Lambs," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and "Candyman," "Skin Shows" unders...(展开全部)

Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne Anlin Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within large...(展开全部)

Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a "weather official" on a tiny, remote island on the edge of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. Gruner, the man inhabiting the lighthouse, approaches the newcomer at first as an...(展开全部)

Albert Sanchez-Pinol's Cold Skin is one of the strangest, most unsettling novels you will read this year, a tour de force full of dark resonance and sexual anxiety. On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steam ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to assume the lonely post of weather ...(展开全部)