On a street in modern-day Norway, a writer kneels with his son and tells him that according to Jewish tradition, a person dies twice: first when their heart stops beating, and then again the last time their name is read or thought or said. Before them is a stone engraved with the name Hirsch Komissar, the boy's great-great-grandfather who was murdered by Nazis. The man who sent...(展开全部)

Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In...(展开全部)

First compact dictionary to combine definitions of botanical names in general usage with information on their derivation and guides to pronunciation. A monumental index provides a cross-reference from some 1,800 common plant names to corresponding botanical ones. Combines thoroughness, botanical rigor, and interesting facts and lore -- all leavened with touches of humor.

-作者简介- 露丝·伯纳德·伊泽尔（Ruth Bernard Yeazell），耶鲁大学英文系斯特林教授，研究生院院长，她的研究主题广泛涉及18—20世纪的小说、性与性别史、视觉艺术与文学的关系等。她长期为《纽约书评》、《伦敦书评》撰稿，其专著包括《心灵的闺室：西方艺术与文学片段》（Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature）、《日常生活的艺术：荷兰绘画与现实主义小说》（Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel）等。 -译者简介- 黄虹，艺术学博士，多年致力于艺术史论、设计史论与视觉文化研究，近年学术兴趣主要集中于多元现代性生成视野中亚洲与西方、亚洲各国之间（以印度—西方、中国—日本—印度为中心）的视觉艺...(展开全部)

-作者简介- 露丝·伯纳德·伊泽尔（Ruth Bernard Yeazell），耶鲁大学英文系斯特林教授，研究生院院长，她的研究主题广泛涉及18—20世纪的小说、性与性别史、视觉艺术与文学的关系等。她长期为《纽约书评》、《伦敦书评》撰稿，其专著包括《心灵的闺室：西方艺术与文学片段》（Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature）、《日常生活的艺术：荷兰绘画与现实主义小说》（Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel）等。 -译者简介- 黄虹，艺术学博士，多年致力于艺术史论、设计史论与视觉文化研究，近年学术兴趣主要集中于多元现代性生成视野中亚洲与西方、亚洲各国之间（以印度—西方、中国—日本—印度为中心）的视觉艺...(展开全部)

First compact dictionary to combine definitions of botanical names in general usage with information on their derivation and guides to pronunciation. A monumental index provides a cross-reference from some 1,800 common plant names to corresponding botanical ones. Combines thoroughness, botanical rigor, and interesting facts and lore -- all leavened with touches of humor.

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review"). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neu...(展开全部)

Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism...(展开全部)

Disaffected computer wizard "Mr. Slippery" (True Name Roger Pollack) is an early adopter of a new full-immersion virtual reality technology called the Other Plane. He and the other wizards form a cabal to keep their true identities — their True Names — secret to avoid prosecution by their "Great Adversary" — the government of the United States. The lines that define us are not ...(展开全部)

Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism...(展开全部)