This fascinating compilation of early Edinburgh photographs takes us on a tour of Scotland's historic capital city, but rather than picturing the historic scenes dating back to the 1850s in the tradit

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

This fascinating compilation of early Edinburgh photographs takes us on a tour of Scotland's historic capital city, but rather than picturing the historic scenes dating back to the 1850s in the tradit

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.

Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry--a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exit...(展开全部)

Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry--a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exit...(展开全部)

简介：任务：SCP物品对世界安全是一种显著的威胁。运作于世界各地的机构，则从地外生物、异次元世界和外层空间中保持人类的独立自主。在过去人类一直被这些异常的物品和相似的事物随意玩弄，但现在，人类的发展来到了一个历史转折点，使我们完全有能力控制和隔离这些违反自然法则的事物。目标：寻找超自然事物并基于其原理发展新科技。收容有潜在威胁的事物。发展安全措施来应对未来出现的危险事物。寻找，扣留，消灭任何阻止我们完成上述目标的人或事物。以人类之名，为文明唱响颂歌，以吾之名，谱写勇气之诗，我们没有退路，我们无法善终，我们为了基金会而战，我们为了文明而战。——Special Containment Procedures Foundation

简介：任务：SCP物品对世界安全是一种显著的威胁。运作于世界各地的机构，则从地外生物、异次元世界和外层空间中保持人类的独立自主。在过去人类一直被这些异常的物品和相似的事物随意玩弄，但现在，人类的发展来到了一个历史转折点，使我们完全有能力控制和隔离这些违反自然法则的事物。目标：寻找超自然事物并基于其原理发展新科技。收容有潜在威胁的事物。发展安全措施来应对未来出现的危险事物。寻找，扣留，消灭任何阻止我们完成上述目标的人或事物。以人类之名，为文明唱响颂歌，以吾之名，谱写勇气之诗，我们没有退路，我们无法善终，我们为了基金会而战，我们为了文明而战。——Special Containment Procedures Foundation

‘Work hard, get paid.’ It’s simple. Self-evident. But it’s also a lie—at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, wellpaying job in the future. Far from equating to riches and fulfilment, ‘work’ means precarity, anxiety and alienation. Amelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How ...(展开全部)