Quantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be in two places at once. Indeed, that particle is also a wave, and everything in the quantum world can be described entirely in terms of waves, or entirely in terms of particles, whichever you prefer. All of this was clear by the end of the 1920s. But to the great distress of many physicists, let alone ordinary mortal...(展开全部)

From the likes of Robert Randisi, Peter Crowther, and Max Rittenberg, these 30 stories of bizarre and impossible crimes will fascinate and intrigue the reader who grapples with their intricate puzzles. A man alone in an all-glass phone booth, visible on CCTV and with no one near him, is killed by an ice pick. A man sitting alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only onceov...(展开全部)

“…a landmark anthology, which establishes that the crafting of brilliant short impossible crime fiction is not an exclusively Anglo-American endeavor.” Publishers Weekly (Starred review) Here is a groundbreaking collection of 26 impossible crime stories from over 20 countries, demonstrating the global reach of this most fiendishly ingenious tale. Several stories appear here for...(展开全部)

What is it that persuades us to camp outside Apple stores to be the first to buy an iPhone? Why is it that a generation ago a typewriter might have lasted someone a lifetime, but now we write on computers that we upgrade every couple of years to shinier, faster, sleeker models? Why do the clicks of some car doors sound “expensive”? We live in a world drowning in objects. But wh...(展开全部)

A brilliant exposé of the interaction between art, design, and commerce. What is it that persuades us to camp outside Apple stores to be the first to buy an iPhone? Why is it that a generation ago a typewriter might have lasted someone a lifetime, but now we write on computers that we upgrade every couple of years to shinier, faster, sleeker models? Why do the clicks of some ca...(展开全部)

Elisabetta Lattanzio Illy was born in Trieste and received her degree in International Economics from Trieste University. She has been a journalist since 1999 and writes regularly for BMM (a quarterly magazine on culture and lifestyle), Monsieur, Spirito diVino, and I Viaggi del Sole (a monthly supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore).

The experience of the impossible churns up in our epoch whenever a collective dream turns to trauma: politically, sexually, economically, and with a certain ultimacy, ecologically. Out of an ancient theological lineage, the figure of the cloud comes to convey possibility in the face of the impossible. An old mystical nonknowing of God now hosts a current knowledge of uncertaint...(展开全部)

乔治·普罗尼克（George Prochnik） 小说家，人物传记作家，自由编辑，曾在耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授英美文学。著有《追求宁静》《普特南隐身之所》等。

乔治·普罗尼克（George Prochnik） 小说家，人物传记作家，自由编辑，曾在耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授英美文学。著有《追求宁静》《普特南隐身之所》等。

耶尔多·杨·德伦特（Jelto Jan Drenth 1946-）荷兰著名性学家。接受各种性学领域的培训，1994年注册为荷兰性学协会的性学医生。现为荷兰《性学余志》大学副刊编辑委员会委员；荷兰《性学杂志》编辑委员会委员兼顾问。曾任荷兰性学协会主席，第十届世界性学大会秘书等。《作为问题的性》、系列录像节目《你的情欲和你的生活》的主要作者：参与编写《医生专用性学》和《性学教科书》；2002年出版的专著《世界的渊源——女人性器官的真相与神话》，迄今已被译为多种语言。