A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them ...(展开全部)

Book Description Completely revised and up-to-date. Gates shows how the new tools of the Information Age are transforming forever the way we buy, work, learn, communicate, and have fun together. Paper. CD ROM included. DLC: Information superhighway - U.S. Amazon.com Love him or loathe him, Mr. Microsoft is certainly an influential voice in the modern business world and The...(展开全部)

Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the earl...(展开全部)

The novel that defined the Beat generation, this exuberant tale of two men traversing America is as fresh and fantastic as ever.

《On the Road》，杰克·凯鲁亚克的半自传体小说，是一部激情四溢的青春公路旅行宣言。它引领读者踏上一段跨越美国大陆的心灵之旅，伴随着萨尔与他的朋友们在无垠公路上的狂野奔腾，追寻着自由、爱情与生命意义的无尽探索。书中充满了对生命热情的颂歌，对即时行乐的崇尚，以及对传统束缚的挣脱。这不仅是一个时代的记录，更是对自由灵魂永恒向往的呼唤，让每个渴望逃离日常、追求不凡生活的读者，都能在其中找到共鸣与启迪。

在线阅读本书 Darrick Lang is coming home. Years ago he left the town of Bramwell to walk the wide world as a soldier of fortune and champion of the realm. But Bramwell is not as he left it. Something dark and terrifying has ensnared the townsfolk, something very old and very patient, tangling innocents in a web of malice and profaning the very earth itself. Now that same power cal...(展开全部)

In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude , it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature. The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku , a spirit child, who in the Yoruba...(展开全部)

Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is his story.

《On the Road》，杰克·凯鲁亚克的半自传体小说，是一部激情四溢的青春公路旅行宣言。它引领读者踏上一段跨越美国大陆的心灵之旅，伴随着萨尔与他的朋友们在无垠公路上的狂野奔腾，追寻着自由、爱情与生命意义的无尽探索。书中充满了对生命热情的颂歌，对即时行乐的崇尚，以及对传统束缚的挣脱。这不仅是一个时代的记录，更是对自由灵魂永恒向往的呼唤，让每个渴望逃离日常、追求不凡生活的读者，都能在其中找到共鸣与启迪。

The novel that defined the Beat generation, this exuberant tale of two men traversing America is as fresh and fantastic as ever.