所有黄金时代都以文化繁荣、科学探索、技术成就和经济增长的辉煌时期为标志；然而，没有两个黄金时代是完全相同的。他们的信念、社会以及在更广阔的世界中的地位各不相同。尽管如此，所有先前的黄金时代都已终结，无论是由于外部压力还是内部分裂；过于傲慢还是缺乏警惕。历史学家兼评论家约翰·诺伯格考察了人类历史上伟大的七大文明——古雅典、罗马共和国、阿拔斯王朝的巴格达、宋朝中国、文艺复兴时期的意大利、荷兰共和国和英语文化圈——试图提炼它们的优势和劣势，以回答这个问题：我们如何确保我们当前的黄金时代不会终结？一书见解深刻，引人入胜，既是对我们惊人进步的赞歌，也是对我们绝不能自满的警告。 All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific explora...(展开全部)

The French intellectual Georges Bataille saw energy as the basis of all human activity—the essence of the human—and he envisioned a society that, instead of renouncing profligate spending, would embrace a more radical type of energy expenditure: la dépense, or “spending without return.” In Bataille’s Peak, Allan Stoekl demonstrates how a close reading of Bataille—in the wake of...(展开全部)

这是一个关于不能出门的女孩的故事。 Maddie患有SCID（严重复合型免疫不全症），无法离开有滤水器与空气滤净器的家。 她的母亲与照顾她的护士就是全世界…… 直到隔壁住进了一个男孩。 Olly和Maddie开始传简讯息与e-mail， 而Maddie发现 自己渐渐的爱上一个她永远也无法见到的男孩。

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a ...(展开全部)

妮古拉·尹，出生于牙买加，在纽约布鲁克林长大。 《你是我一切的一切》是她的第一部小说，出版后获得了巨大成功，在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上停留了一年的时间，并被米高梅和华纳兄弟合作改编成同名电影。 她的丈夫是一位设计师，他为这本书绘制了插图。如今她和丈夫、女儿生活在洛杉矶，她对他们的爱超越了一切。

A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reasse...(展开全部)

A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reasse...(展开全部)

Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his windshield doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him...(展开全部)

Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the print of a bare foot on the inside of his windshield doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him...(展开全部)

Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary natur...(展开全部)