A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject--in wr...(展开全部)

A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject--in wr...(展开全部)

菲利帕·梅里曼（Philippa Merriman），高级职业银器匠人，梅里曼银器公司董事，对银子的历史与制作工艺有着深入的研究。在从事制银行业之前，为哲学讲师。

The curious course of silver through human history unfolds in this rich and engaging book, accompanied by striking illustrations from the British Museum. Philippa Merriman takes the reader back to the earliest uses of silver: in ingots and coins, dowries, hoards, and college plate. She shows us how silver demonstrated status--whether for an individual, as ornament, furnishings...(展开全部)

Author Masashi Kishimoto made his debut in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1999 with Naruto, which won the Hop Step Award. Naruto must pass the difficult test to enter the Ninja Academy; deal with his rival, Konohamaru; and learn to get along with his new classmates, Sasuke and Sakura. Assigned to a three-person team, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura must survive a brutal test against their up...(展开全部)

Author Masashi Kishimoto made his debut in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1999 with Naruto, which won the Hop Step Award. Naruto must pass the difficult test to enter the Ninja Academy; deal with his rival, Konohamaru; and learn to get along with his new classmates, Sasuke and Sakura. Assigned to a three-person team, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura must survive a brutal test against their up...(展开全部)

“Dublin’s clammy atmosphere and its oppressive social and religious mores are a convincing backdrop to a moving drama conveyed by a master writer.” -------- The Times Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1 950s, that low, dishonorable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired i...(展开全部)

“Dublin’s clammy atmosphere and its oppressive social and religious mores are a convincing backdrop to a moving drama conveyed by a master writer.” -------- The Times Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1 950s, that low, dishonorable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired i...(展开全部)

李锐，男，1950年9月生于北京，祖籍四川自贡。1966年毕业于北京杨闸中学。1969年1月到山西吕梁山区插队落户，先后做过六年农民，两年半工人。1977年调入《山西文学》编辑部。先后担任编辑部主任，副主编。1984年毕业于辽宁大学中文系函授部。1988年转为山西省作家协会专业作家，同年6月加入中国作家协会，1998年12月当选山西作家协会副主席。2003年10月主动辞去山西作协副主席职务，同时退出中国作家协会，放弃中国作协会员资格。2004年3月获得法国政府颁发的艺术与文学骑士勋章。1974年发表第一篇小说。迄今已发表各类作品将近两百万字。系列小说《厚土》为作者影响较大的作品，曾获第八届全国优秀短篇小说奖，第十二届台湾《中国时报》文学奖。出版有小说集：《丢失的长命锁》、《红房了》、《厚土》、《传说之死》。长篇小说：《旧址》、《无风之树》、《万里无云...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In this stunning follow-up to 2007's Christine Falls, Black (pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville) spins a complex tale of murder and deception in 1950s Ireland. Pathologist Garret Quirke, surprised by a visit from a college acquaintance, Billy Hunt, is even more surprised when Billy begs Quirke not to perform an autopsy on his w...(展开全部)