Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget and seven days to get it all back again... From the author of The Perfect Find, this is a witty, romantic, and sexy-as-hell new novel of two writers and their second chance at love. Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic,...(展开全部)

Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the movement of the cosmos and as a home to deities and imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw an outpouring of visual materials depicting Heaven, the concept of Heaven encompassed...(展开全部)

Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the movement of the cosmos and as a home to deities and imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw an outpouring of visual materials depicting Heaven, the concept of Heaven encompassed...(展开全部)

Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with tr...(展开全部)

Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with tr...(展开全部)

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student who subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her torm...(展开全部)

[ 日本 ] 川上未映子 出生于大阪，是当代日本文坛极具国际影响力的作家之一，她以诗意的文风及对女性身体的洞察、对伦理道德悖论和现代社会困境的省察而闻名。 出道之前，为偿还家庭债务并筹措弟弟的学费，川上做过酒吧侍应、书店店员等工作。在打工的同时，她开始了自己的音乐生涯。与一家大型唱片公司签约，并搬到了东京。然而，她不能写自己的歌词，专辑的销售情况也不理想，于是她彻底辞职，转而从事文学创作。最初 她是一名博客作者，后来在文学杂志上发表诗歌，正式开始文学创作。作为演员的她曾拿下日本电影旬报最佳新人女演员奖。她对于性别、家庭和女性的坦率思考，为她收获了大量渴望获得理智与独立的女性读者，日点击量高达 20 万次。 川上以诗人的身份在文坛出道，并于 2007 年出版了她的第一部中篇小说《我的自我、我的牙齿和世界》。她的作品曾拿下了日本文坛各大奖项，包括芥川奖（...(展开全部)

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student who subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her torm...(展开全部)

[ 日本 ] 川上未映子 出生于大阪，是当代日本文坛极具国际影响力的作家之一，她以诗意的文风及对女性身体的洞察、对伦理道德悖论和现代社会困境的省察而闻名。 出道之前，为偿还家庭债务并筹措弟弟的学费，川上做过酒吧侍应、书店店员等工作。在打工的同时，她开始了自己的音乐生涯。与一家大型唱片公司签约，并搬到了东京。然而，她不能写自己的歌词，专辑的销售情况也不理想，于是她彻底辞职，转而从事文学创作。最初 她是一名博客作者，后来在文学杂志上发表诗歌，正式开始文学创作。作为演员的她曾拿下日本电影旬报最佳新人女演员奖。她对于性别、家庭和女性的坦率思考，为她收获了大量渴望获得理智与独立的女性读者，日点击量高达 20 万次。 川上以诗人的身份在文坛出道，并于 2007 年出版了她的第一部中篇小说《我的自我、我的牙齿和世界》。她的作品曾拿下了日本文坛各大奖项，包括芥川奖（...(展开全部)

The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakam...(展开全部)