When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. An...(展开全部)

In 1975 three young boys encounter a pair of roving child molesters who pass themselves off as policemen. Two of them escape, but ten-year-old Dave Boyle is not so fortunate and finds himself trapped in a four-day ordeal that changes his life forever. Mystic River is both a murder mystery and a novel of character. Like the very best fiction, it is, in the end, about many things...(展开全部)

In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel–his first–V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. To understand a little better, one has to realize that in the 1940s masseurs were the island’s m...(展开全部)

V.S.奈保尔（V.S.Naipaul）： 英国当代作家，文化巨匠。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，1950年进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后迁居伦敦。 50年代开始写作，作品以小说、游记、文论为主，主要有《毕斯沃斯先生的房子》、《米格尔街》、《自由国度》、《河湾》与“印度三部曲”等。其作品在全球享有盛誉，半个世纪里，将里斯奖、毛姆奖、史密斯奖、布克奖、第一届大卫·柯恩文学奖等收入囊中。1990年，被英国女王封为爵士。2001年，荣获诺贝尔文学奖。

In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanjing and launched six weeks of carnage that would become known as the Rape of Nanjing. In addition to the deaths of Chinese POWs and civilians, tens of thousands of women were raped, tortured, and killed by Japanese soldiers. In this traumatic environment, both native and foreign-born inhabi...(展开全部)

Cheryl Simone, an Atlanta real estate developer, was the typical baby boomer in search of an authentic spiritual experience. Professionally successful, yet spiritually arid, she discovered a way into what she was looking for in the teachings of Sadhguru. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a Master, Mystic, and Yogi from South India. The master is an open doorway to divinity. He offers a...(展开全部)

Cheryl Simone, an Atlanta real estate developer, was the typical baby boomer in search of an authentic spiritual experience. Professionally successful, yet spiritually arid, she discovered a way into what she was looking for in the teachings of Sadhguru. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a Master, Mystic, and Yogi from South India. The master is an open doorway to divinity. He offers a...(展开全部)

作者：S.伊丽莎白，作家、策展人和求道者。她的父母是占星师和建筑师的奇异组合，她对魔法的爱好与生俱来，并通过文字来描述她所热爱的造型艺术。她是《神秘学活动书》（第一卷和第二卷）的作者之一，还著有《神秘主义艺术图鉴》《黑暗艺术图鉴》《幻想艺术图鉴》等书。 译者：张心童，同声传译，图书翻译，已出版译作《世界花纹与图案大典》《神秘主义艺术图鉴》《神秘主义符号图鉴》《装饰的法则》《艺术的精神》《20世纪简史》《与古斯塔夫国王共进晚宴》《但丁》等，诗歌创作散见于《世界日报》《侨报》等。现定居美国旧金山。

Paul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einsteins most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. In 1933 he became the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Diracs personality, like his achievements, is l...(展开全部)

Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. One of Einstein’s most admired colleagues...(展开全部)