玛丽亚·格拉齐亚·卡兰德罗内（Maria Grazia Calandrone） 1965年夏天，罗马公园的草坪上出现了一个8个月大的女婴，玛丽亚——那个被遗弃的婴儿——如今已是意大利文坛巨星。 她是作家、诗人、记者、社会活动家和教育家主持意大利国家广播的文化节目，为多家意大利媒体撰写文学评论。她在学校、监狱和心理健康机构开设诗歌工作坊，曾执导移民主题访谈和有关萨拉热窝战争的纪录片。 2011年她荣膺那不勒斯文学奖，2023年凭借本书入围意大利殿堂级文学奖项--斯特雷加奖的决选名单。她的作品被译为英语、法语、西班牙语等20余种语言，常以女性经验、家庭结构、社会历史与生命伦理为题，展现私人历史与集体记忆的交汇。 在本书中，她化身侦探，重返母亲生活过的村庄私奔停留的米兰、生命终章的罗马，从发黄的法院档案、泛黑的旧报纸、陌生人的记忆残片中，拼凑出底层女性露西...(展开全部)

玛丽亚·格拉齐亚·卡兰德罗内（Maria Grazia Calandrone） 1965年夏天，罗马公园的草坪上出现了一个8个月大的女婴，玛丽亚——那个被遗弃的婴儿——如今已是意大利文坛巨星。 她是作家、诗人、记者、社会活动家和教育家主持意大利国家广播的文化节目，为多家意大利媒体撰写文学评论。她在学校、监狱和心理健康机构开设诗歌工作坊，曾执导移民主题访谈和有关萨拉热窝战争的纪录片。 2011年她荣膺那不勒斯文学奖，2023年凭借本书入围意大利殿堂级文学奖项--斯特雷加奖的决选名单。她的作品被译为英语、法语、西班牙语等20余种语言，常以女性经验、家庭结构、社会历史与生命伦理为题，展现私人历史与集体记忆的交汇。 在本书中，她化身侦探，重返母亲生活过的村庄私奔停留的米兰、生命终章的罗马，从发黄的法院档案、泛黑的旧报纸、陌生人的记忆残片中，拼凑出底层女性露西...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .