A searing exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late-twentieth-century America, Little Bird of Heaven returns to the emotional and geographical terrain of acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates's previous bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and The Gravedigger's Daughter . When young wife and mother Zoe Kruller is found brutally m...(展开全部)

Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, romantic, and captivating tale, set in the Great Lakes region of upstate New York—the territory of her remarkably successful New York Times bestseller The Gravedigger's Daughter . Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragi...(展开全部)

In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thro...(展开全部)

In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thro...(展开全部)

The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As Finn Brunton explains in Spam, it is produced and shaped by many differe...(展开全部)

The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As Finn Brunton explains in Spam, it is produced and shaped by many differe...(展开全部)

乔什·玛勒曼 （Josh Malerman） 小说家、摇滚乐队“The High Strung”唱作歌手。 乔什·玛勒曼来自美国著名的音乐之乡底特律，1998年以歌手身份出道，至今发表了二十多张专辑，每年公演多达250场，是绝对酷炫的全职摇滚歌手。 音乐不是他唯一的创作方式，玛勒曼很早就在表演间隙、巡演路上创作短篇小说。2014年，首部长篇小说《鸟盒》出版后由Netflix投资翻拍成电影《蒙上你的眼》，桑德拉·布洛克、莎拉·保罗森主演，2018年上映之后成为当年播放量冠军的恐怖电影。

在线阅读本书 New York Times bestselling author Richard Knaak writes of a Sorceror's search for wealth in a once magical, mysterious lost city...After a lifetime of research and calculation, the Vizerei sorcerer Quov Tsin, thinks he has figured out the secret behind the ruins of the lost city of Ureh. He hires a pack of mercenaries from the West and they set out to search for the w...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 New York Times bestselling author Richard Knaak writes of a Sorceror's search for wealth in a once magical, mysterious lost city...After a lifetime of research and calculation, the Vizerei sorcerer Quov Tsin, thinks he has figured out the secret behind the ruins of the lost city of Ureh. He hires a pack of mercenaries from the West and they set out to search for the w...(展开全部)

Stephen Moss's book is the first to trace the history and development of birdwatching on both sides of the Atlantic, from Gilbert White, the country parson who wroteThe Natural History of Selbornein the 18th century, through the British servicemen who studied black redstarts from their German prisoner-of-war camp, to today's driven "life-listers" and twisters who think nothing ...(展开全部)