A renowned social thinker considers the nature and necessity of forgetting. “Remembering or forgetting is doing gardener’s work, selecting, pruning. Memories are like plants: there are those that need to be quickly eliminated in order to help the others burgeon, transform, flower.” For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion ...(展开全部)

Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds—all from nothing! It turns out that almost nothing is as curious—or as enlightening—as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void to superconductors, vestigial...(展开全部)

Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to understanding absolutely everything, from why particles have mass to the expansion of the universe - so without nothing we'd be precisely no...(展开全部)

In the stories that make up Oblivion , David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal...(展开全部)

In the stories that make up Oblivion , David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal...(展开全部)

In the stories that make up Oblivion , David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal...(展开全部)

'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ...He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' ZADIE SMITH A recognised master of form and a brilliant recorder of human behaviour, David Foster Wal...(展开全部)

原作者简介： 菲利普·纳尔逊(Philip Nelson)是宾夕法尼亚大学教授，获得了多项奖项，包括丹尼斯M.德图尔克教学创新奖（宾夕法尼亚大学）。生物物理学会艾米丽·格雷奖，“对生物物理教学、开发创新教育材料和培养特别有利于生物物理教育的环境做出了深远而重大的贡献”。美国物理学会会员，“利用几何和拓扑方法对理解软生物材料、量子场和超弦做出的贡献。爱尔兰共和军艾布拉姆斯大学本科教学优秀纪念奖 (宾夕法尼亚大学)。 译者简介： 舒咬根 研究员，任职于中国科学院大学温州研究院。长期从事生物分子马达等物理生物学课题的研究以及生物信息快速检测技术的开发；发表论文50余篇，出席国际会议并作口头报告十余次。参与翻译了《生命系统的物理建模》（上海科学技术出版社，2018年）、《细胞的物理生物学》（科学出版社，2012年）和《生物物理学：能量、信息、生命》（上海科学...(展开全部)

加文·德·贝克尔，生长在一个充满暴力的家庭，特殊的经历却练就了他洞察危险的能力。凭借首创的危险预测法，贝克尔三度被美国司法部任命为总统顾问委员会委员，曾担任布什、克林顿和里根总统的安全顾问，还为麦当娜、汤姆·汉克斯等公众人物提供暴力预测服务。贝克尔不仅是危险预测专家，还是杰出的人性大师，他以自己多年研究暴力的经验，剖析出识别危险信号的方法，并致力于将全部心得普及给普通民众，包括如何远离家暴、骚扰、凶杀等侵害。在贝克尔的指导下，很多人得以辨识出身边的危险，并由此获得安全。

本书作者Re°（Redo）是以小说插画为主要创作方向的插画师，本书是其精选作品集。 书中主要收录了作者在2014—2021 年发表的商业插画作品，数量过100 张。作者的画风清新飘逸，略带忧郁；用色简单，善于用人物的身体姿势、背景和色彩营造画面的氛围，角色以男性为主。部分作品配有短诗，以烘托氛围。书中还收录了部分作品的作画思路、作画过程的分步骤讲解，以及作者访谈等内容。 本书兼具欣赏性和实用性，适合插画爱好者学习、收藏。