简介：语录

简介：语录

菲利帕·梅里曼（Philippa Merriman），高级职业银器匠人，梅里曼银器公司董事，对银子的历史与制作工艺有着深入的研究。在从事制银行业之前，为哲学讲师。

The curious course of silver through human history unfolds in this rich and engaging book, accompanied by striking illustrations from the British Museum. Philippa Merriman takes the reader back to the earliest uses of silver: in ingots and coins, dowries, hoards, and college plate. She shows us how silver demonstrated status--whether for an individual, as ornament, furnishings...(展开全部)

The Water Knife is a 2015 science fiction novel by Paolo Bacigalupi. It is Bacigalupi's sixth novel, and is based on his short story, The Tamarisk Hunter, first published in the news magazine High Country News. It takes place in the near future, where drought brought on by climate change has devastated the Southwestern United States. --------------------------- Central characte...(展开全部)

The Water Knife is a 2015 science fiction novel by Paolo Bacigalupi. It is Bacigalupi's sixth novel, and is based on his short story, The Tamarisk Hunter, first published in the news magazine High Country News. It takes place in the near future, where drought brought on by climate change has devastated the Southwestern United States. --------------------------- Central characte...(展开全部)

斯蒂文•米尔豪瑟（Steven Millhauser，1943－），美国重量级作家，曾获美第契外国文学奖（1975年）、世界奇幻文学奖（1990年）、普利策奖（1997年）等多项大奖。米尔豪瑟的小说极具创新精神，涵盖侦探、哥特、爱情、奇幻等各种题材，故事可读性强，且寓意深刻；他的叙事技巧多变，语言凝练，受到厄普代克尊崇。其短篇小说《魔术师艾森海姆》（Eisenheim the Illusionist）曾被拍成电影《魔术师》（The Illusionist），获得巨大成功。其代表作有：《艾德文•穆尔豪斯》、《马丁•德塞勒：一位美国梦幻家的传说》、《飞刀表演者》、《危险的大笑》等。

“Dublin’s clammy atmosphere and its oppressive social and religious mores are a convincing backdrop to a moving drama conveyed by a master writer.” -------- The Times Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1 950s, that low, dishonorable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired i...(展开全部)