“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the “tears of things”? In this series of meditations, Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker explore some of the key “negative affects” – both eternal and emergent – associ...(展开全部)

Sad Tiger is built on the facts of a series of devastating events. Neige Sinno was 7 years old when her stepfather started sexually abusing her and at 14 or 15 the abuse stopped. At 19, she decided to break the silence that is so common in all cultures around sexual violence. This led to a public trial and prison for her stepfather and Sinno started a new life in Mexico. Throug...(展开全部)

达米安·鲁德，1984年生于澳大利亚悉尼，是一位作家和艺术家。他从挪威的卑尔根国立艺术学院获得艺术硕士学位，目前生活在荷兰的阿姆斯特丹，在那里从事关于阿比·瓦尔堡（Aby Warburg）的《记忆图集》（Mnemosyne Atlas）的研究。本书中收集的悲伤地名都曾出现在其社交媒体Instagram的个人网页上。 · 凯特琳娜·迪达克，1990年生于乌克兰，是一位插画师和版画家，尤其擅长蚀刻、单字铸排、水彩画和数字艺术。她从乌克兰国立美术与建筑艺术学院获得版画与书籍插画硕士学位，目前生活在基辅。

An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will...Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent...(展开全部)

The German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde, and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker of a generation that includes Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Luciano Berio. His radically new electronic and instrumental music converted Igor Stravinsky to serialism in the 1950s, and has contin...(展开全部)

The phenomenon of retrograde motion is based on our Earth-centered view of the solar system, but the movement and cycles of retrograde planets are based entirely on the apparent motion of the Sun through the zodiac. Erin Sullivan organizes and explains retrograde motion from a systems viewpoint -- the system of the Sun and planets -- and interprets retrograde planets natally, b...(展开全部)

Don is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation - yet no single planet can claim him as its own. His mother was born on Venus and his father on Earth, and Don himself was born on a spaceship in trajectory between planets. And he fights for the rights of this curious citizenship in very curious ways. Heinlein reveals in a dashing fast-moving style what can happen when politics...(展开全部)

达娃•索贝尔（Dava Sobel）曾担任《纽约时报》科学专栏的记者，是《经度》、《伽利略的女儿》和《致父亲的信》等书的作者。她在三十年的科学新闻记者生涯中，多次为《奥杜邦》（Audubon）、《发现》、《生活》和《纽约客》等几家杂志撰稿，并担任过《哈佛杂志》和《全知》（Omni）的特约编辑，还与人合著了六部著作，其中包括与天文学家弗兰克•德雷克（Frank Drake）合著的《那里有人吗？》（Is Anyone Out There ?）以及与威廉•安德鲁斯（William J. H. Andrewes）合著的《经度图解》（The Illustrated Longitude）。 索贝尔女士长期致力于增进民众对科学的理解，因此荣获了美国国家科学委员会享有崇高声誉的 “个人公众服务奖”、波士顿科学博物馆颁发的布拉德福德•沃什波恩奖（Bradford Wa...(展开全部)

With her blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter , Dava Sobel used her rare and luminous gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story to garner rave reviews and attract readers from across the literary spectrum. Now, in The Planets , Sobel brings her full talents to bear on what is perhaps her most ambitious subjec...(展开全部)

With unmitigated honesty, a touch of humor, and sensitive illustrations by Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen explores the experience of sadness in a way that resonates with us all. Sometimes I'm sad and I don’t know why. It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me up. Sad things happen to everyone, and sometimes people feel sad for no reason at all. What makes Michael Rosen ...(展开全部)