A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending. In 1936, Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will...(展开全部)

In 1936, Shostakovitch, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, executed on the spot), Shostakovitch reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, various women and wives, his childre...(展开全部)

In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty -- "a telling of the future," as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck."

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A ...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to “flow”? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philos...(展开全部)

ime is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a diffe...(展开全部)

The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time 'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come.' Time is a mystery that does not cease to p...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Just in time for the new millennium comes this enormous, amply illustrated compilation of 23 essays on aspects of time from experts in various disciplines, among them history and historiography, music, geology, literary criticism, anthropology, religion and the history of engineering. The venerated art historian E.H. Gombrich contributes a compact "Histor...(展开全部)

克里斯滕•利平科特，格林威治皇家天文台台长，著有《天文学》等书。 翁贝托•艾柯，意大利小说家、哲学家、符号学家、美学家，博洛尼亚大学教授，著有《玫瑰的名字》《美的历史》等书。 贡布里希爵士，著名艺术史学者，著有《艺术的故事》等书。 其他作者有约翰•诺思教授（格罗宁根大学）、西尔克•阿克曼博士（大英博物馆）、安东尼•埃维尼教授（科尔盖特大学）、戴维•金教授（歌德大学科学史研究所）、迈克尔•洛伊教授（剑桥大学克莱尔学院）、乔伊•亨德利教授（牛津布鲁克斯大学）、约翰•麦克唐纳博士（努纳武特研究中心）、埃利•德克尔博士（乌特勒支大学）、乔纳森•贝茨（格林威治皇家天文台）、伊万•卡斯克尔博士（哈佛大学福格艺术博物馆）、洛恩•坎贝尔博士（英国国家美术馆）、约翰•豪斯教授（伦敦大学考陶尔德艺术学院）、马西娅•波因顿教授（曼彻斯特大学）、唐•埃兹教授（埃塞克斯大学）...(展开全部)