杰夫里•迪弗 一九五〇年出生于芝加哥，十一岁时写出了他的第一本小说，从此笔耕不辍。迪弗毕业于密苏里大学新闻系，后进入福德汉姆法学院研修法律。在法律界实践了一段时间后，他在华尔街一家大律师事务所开始了律师生涯。他兴趣广泛，曾自己写歌唱歌，进行巡演，也曾当过杂志社记者。与此同时， 他开始发展自己真正的兴趣：写悬疑小说。一九九〇年起，迪弗成为一名全职作家。 迄今为止，迪弗共获得六次 MWA（美国推理小说作家协会）的爱伦•坡奖提名、一次尼禄•沃尔夫奖、一次安东尼奖、三次埃勒里•奎因最佳短篇小说读者奖。迪弗的小说被翻译成三十五种 语言，多次登上世界各地的畅销书排行榜。包括名作《人骨拼图》在内，他有三部作品被搬上银幕，同时他也为享誉世界的詹姆斯•邦德系列创作了最新官方小说 《自由裁决》。 迪弗的作品素以悬念重重、不断反转的情节著称，常常在小说的结尾推翻，或者多次...(展开全部)

Twenty-one-year-old Rune is an aspiring filmmaker, but so far her only break has been scoring a job as an underpaid production assistant in Manhattan. Still, she's always on the lookout for the perfect topic for her own film--and she thinks she's found it when she witnesses the bombing of a triple-X movie theater in Times Square. Rune's got a great hook for her documentary: She...(展开全部)

Rune, the quirky, irrepressible heroine of Manhattan Is My Beat, is struggling to become a filmmaker in New York, shooting a documentary about a series of shocking bomb attacks on the adult film industry, seemingly perpetrated by religious terrorists. But when one of these explosions shatters the lives of those close to her, Rune suspects that there's more to the attacks than ...(展开全部)

She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to be. So, armed with a borrowed Betacam, she embarks on a freelance career of making movies herself. Unfortunately her first attempt - within the hallowed walls of the XXX Velvet Venus Theatre - was une...(展开全部)

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life.

In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long...(展开全部)

In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long...(展开全部)

In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the name 'Hummingbird' in big letters on all her clothes, but she has never seen a real hummingbird. Sh...(展开全部)

A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day,...(展开全部)

Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and huma...(展开全部)