尼古拉•特斯拉（Nikola Tesla） 著名的发明家、物理学家、机械工程师和电机工程师，电力应用的最重要贡献者之一，在电磁学领域做出了革命性贡献，磁感应强度单位即以他的名字命名。 特斯拉于1856年7月9日出生于克罗地亚（当时属于奥匈帝国），1943年1月7日去世。特斯拉在格拉茨理工大学开始从事物理学和数学研究，然后又在布拉格大学进修哲学。他曾作为电机工程师在匈牙利首都布达佩斯工作，后来又去了法国和德国。1888年，特斯拉发现，如果两个呈直角的线圈通以相位差为90°的交流电，磁场就会发生旋转。这一发现使交流电发电机的出现成为可能。在当时，很多人认为这是不可能实现的。 1884年，特斯拉移居美国，为托马斯•爱迪生工作，并很快成为他的竞争对手，1912年由于特斯拉和爱迪生在电力方面的贡献，两人被同时授予诺贝尔物理学奖，但是两人都拒绝领奖，理由是无法忍...(展开全部)

约翰•奥尼尔，美国《纽约先驱论坛报》知名记者，特斯拉的密友，曾获得1937年普利策奖。

(from amazon) Review Tesla, famous Yugoslav-American scientist, whose greatest gift was the application of the principle of alternating current to industrial use, here interpreted as a man and a genius. Interest in the book presupposes some degree of knowledge of electricity, though it is not primarily a scientific work. During a rather unusual childhood, he showed evidence of ...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY GRAND PRIX A tribute to George Orwell's 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Sansal's 2084 tells the story of a near future in which Islamic fundamentalists have established an oppressive caliphate where autonomus thought is forbidden. It is the year 2084. In the kingdom of Abistan—named after the prophet Abi, earthly mess...(展开全部)

From the mid-sixteenth through the end of the seventeenth century, Chinese intellectuals attended more to dreams and dreaming―and in a wider array of genres―than in any other period of Chinese history. Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious yet accessible work aims both to describe the most salient aspects of this “dream arc” and to explain its trajectory in ti...(展开全部)

A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. ...(展开全部)

Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyp...(展开全部)

A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. ...(展开全部)

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of thei...(展开全部)