By Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author’s experience with breast cancer—from diagnosis to treatment to recovery—and her passage from a life lived through the mind into a life lived through the body. In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast c...(展开全部)

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis--a ...(展开全部)

The secrets of the dead are in her hands. The bones of three young women are unearthed in the basement of a Montreal pizza parlor, and forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan has unsolved murder on her mind as she examines the shallowly buried remains. Coming up against a homicide cop who is convinced the dead have been entombed on the site for centuries, Tempe perseveres, even w...(展开全部)

As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the ...(展开全部)

布兰登·桑德森，美国奇幻作家，其续写的罗伯特·乔丹的《时光之轮》系列，打败丹·布朗的新书《失落的密符》，空降《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜并成为头号畅销书。其处女作《诸神之城：伊岚翠》出版当年便获得Romantic Times奇幻史诗大奖，并连续入选2006、2007年美国科幻/奇幻界地位最高的新人奖项。布兰登才思敏捷，风格多样， 其代表作《迷雾之子》系列全球销量数百万，确立了他在新生代奇幻作家中的领军地位。

A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s “lyrical and haunting” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) reflection on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from ...(展开全部)

As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the ...(展开全部)

布兰登·桑德森，美国奇幻作家，其续写的罗伯特·乔丹的《时光之轮》系列，打败丹·布朗的新书《失落的密符》，空降《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜并成为头号畅销书。其处女作《诸神之城：伊岚翠》出版当年便获得Romantic Times奇幻史诗大奖，并连续入选2006、2007年美国科幻/奇幻界地位最高的新人奖项。布兰登才思敏捷，风格多样， 其代表作《迷雾之子》系列全球销量数百万，确立了他在新生代奇幻作家中的领军地位。

A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s “lyrical and haunting” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) reflection on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from ...(展开全部)

In this provocative, pioneering, and wholly engrossing cultural history, noted scholar Marilyn Yalom explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and perceptions of the female breast--in religion, psychology, politics, society, and the arts. Through the centuries, the breast has been laden with hugely powerful and contradictory meanings. There is the "good breast" of ...(展开全部)