The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, i...(展开全部)

Amazon.com The 1990s seems to be the decade of revelation. What used to be private is becoming increasingly public. All is aired on talk shows whose guests are no longer celebrities hawking their latest film， book， or album， but ordinary citizens selling their personal traumas. Mothers Who Sleep with Their Daughters' Boyfriends; Men Who Wear Their Girlfriends' Clothes; People...(展开全部)

In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the arts to bear witness to and explain the links between modernity, progress and humanity, and the difficult transition to postmode...(展开全部)

In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the arts to bear witness to and explain the links between modernity, progress and humanity, and the difficult transition to postmode...(展开全部)

Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the “really real”: blunt factuality, nature’s curt rebuke. Yet medieval writers knew that stones drop with fire from the sky, emerge through the subterranean lovemaking of the elements, tumble along riverbeds from Eden, partner with the ...(展开全部)

Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the “really real”: blunt factuality, nature’s curt rebuke. Yet medieval writers knew that stones drop with fire from the sky, emerge through the subterranean lovemaking of the elements, tumble along riverbeds from Eden, partner with the ...(展开全部)

無話可說，就親吻吧！ 用嘴接吻體現了某種雙重的食人現象：既是肉體的吸吮，也是靈魂的交換；接吻就是心靈與愛情彼此之間的交融與溝通。──哲學家 艾德嘉‧莫杭 吻留存在時間的洪流裡、經過一代又一代、橫跨許多國家。吻會持續鼓勵戀人、演員、作家，以及我們每一個人。不管愛情怎麼開始、為什麼我們要這麼做、發生的地點在何處，吻表達的都是最偉大的情感：愛。──愛情科學家 謝麗爾‧柯申鮑姆 「你鐵定是帶了隻蜜蜂到我的嘴上，因為你嘗起來像蜜，但你的吻卻令我傷痕累累。」──作家 阿基里斯．塔提奧斯 從初吻到吻別，從飛吻、吻手禮、吻痕、額吻……，人類可以說是經常，甚至可以說是時時刻刻都在唇邊流連忘返，也時常透過一個無聲的「吻」，彌補語言無法表達的情感抒發。接吻，到底是純粹慾望的展現，或是真愛的試金石？遺失吻的童話故事，王子該如何喚醒公主，結局又該走向何處？而吻有時不是「從此幸...(展开全部)

Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She's chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may n...(展开全部)

無話可說，就親吻吧！ 用嘴接吻體現了某種雙重的食人現象：既是肉體的吸吮，也是靈魂的交換；接吻就是心靈與愛情彼此之間的交融與溝通。──哲學家 艾德嘉‧莫杭 吻留存在時間的洪流裡、經過一代又一代、橫跨許多國家。吻會持續鼓勵戀人、演員、作家，以及我們每一個人。不管愛情怎麼開始、為什麼我們要這麼做、發生的地點在何處，吻表達的都是最偉大的情感：愛。──愛情科學家 謝麗爾‧柯申鮑姆 「你鐵定是帶了隻蜜蜂到我的嘴上，因為你嘗起來像蜜，但你的吻卻令我傷痕累累。」──作家 阿基里斯．塔提奧斯 從初吻到吻別，從飛吻、吻手禮、吻痕、額吻……，人類可以說是經常，甚至可以說是時時刻刻都在唇邊流連忘返，也時常透過一個無聲的「吻」，彌補語言無法表達的情感抒發。接吻，到底是純粹慾望的展現，或是真愛的試金石？遺失吻的童話故事，王子該如何喚醒公主，結局又該走向何處？而吻有時不是「從此幸...(展开全部)

Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She's chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may n...(展开全部)