简介：你是我意外中的意外，可遇不可求

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full...(展开全部)

What, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again?In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S. Fridson probes the past, leading an exhilarating tour through each of the twentieth-century stock market's ...(展开全部)

What, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again?In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S. Fridson probes the past, leading an exhilarating tour through each of the twentieth-century stock market's ...(展开全部)

埃勒里·奎因（Ellery Queen），推理小说史上一个非凡的名字，实指弗雷德里克•丹奈（Frederic Dannay，1905-1982）和曼弗里德•李（Manfred Lee，1905-1971）这对表兄弟作家。他们的创作时间长达半个世纪，作品多达数十部，全球销量约计两亿册；他们曾五获埃德加•爱伦•坡奖；他们的四部“悲剧系列”和九部“国名系列”作品被公认为推理小说史上难以逾越的佳作；他们于1941年创办的《埃勒里•奎因神秘杂志》（EQMM）成为劳伦斯•布洛克、迈克尔•康奈利等推理大家起飞的平台，迄今仍是最专业、最权威的推理文学杂志之一；他们出资设立“密室研讨小组”，定期与约翰•狄克森•卡尔、克雷顿•劳森等推理大师交流、切磋……他们成就的不仅仅是自己，更成就了推理小说的黄金时代。

帕特里克·莫迪亚诺（1945-），法国作家。生于巴黎，父亲是犹太金融企业家，母亲是比利时艺术家。1968年发表处女作《星形广场》一举成名。后创作的《夜间巡逻》（1969）、《环城林荫大道》（1972）均获得法国文坛上的重要奖项。1978年发表的《暗店街》获得当年的龚古尔文学奖。1996年获法国国家文学奖。《夜半撞车》是一部带有自传色彩的小说，具有典型的“新寓言派”特征，体现了作者一贯的写作风格。2003年由伽利玛出版社出版，在读者中产生了相当广泛的影响。

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted? And what kinds of people have sought to reconstruct ...(展开全部)

Alexei Yurchak is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full...(展开全部)

Synopsis A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, How Late It Was, How Late opens one Sunday morning in Glasgow, Scotland, as Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting, awakens in a lane and tries to remember the two-day drinking binge that landed him there. Then, things only get worse. Sammy gets in a fight with some soldiers, lands in jail, and ...(展开全部)