Saigon’s Edge explores life in Hóc Môn, a district that lies along a key transport corridor on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. Erik Harms puts forth a revealing perspective on how rapid urbanization impacts people living at the intersection of rural and urban worlds and opens a window on Vietnam’s larger turn toward market socialism and the celebration of urbanization.

What do they all mean - the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protuding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, w...(展开全部)

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors.” Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and he...(展开全部)

“Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.”–The Sunday Times A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults. Ferrante’s writing has been described as compulsive (The Times) and astonishing (Guardian), her novels have sold m...(展开全部)

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors.” Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and he...(展开全部)

“Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.”–The Sunday Times A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults. Ferrante’s writing has been described as compulsive (The Times) and astonishing (Guardian), her novels have sold m...(展开全部)

Matt Scudder returns in a tense mystery in which he remorselessly tracks downa young midwestern girl missing in the Big Apple.

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provide...(展开全部)

吉姆·艾尔—哈利利 ● 英国萨里大学物理学教授，最具影响力的量子生物学家。 ● 1989年，在英国萨里大学获得核反应理论博士学位。 ● 1992年，在英国工程和自然科学委员会的资助下，开始了为期五年的研究工作，他差不多每两个月就发表一篇论文，有些论文的引用次数超过500次。 ● 从20世纪90年代末开始，研究领域转向量子生物学，“量子隧穿”是他的研究重点。1999年，他与生物学家约翰乔·麦克法登联合发表了量子生物学方面的论文。2012年，在英国工程和自然科学委员会的资助下，他与约翰乔·麦克法登共同主办了量子生物学研讨会，并获得极大成功。2015年，他以量子生物学为主题做了TED演讲。 ● 2005—2007年，他参与拍摄BBC的纪录片《爱因斯坦大脑之谜》和《原子》，广受好评，他于2011年开始在BBC制作广播节目《生命科学》，每周吸引的听众数量高达2...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)