尼尔•盖曼（Neil Gaiman） 当代大师级幻想小说家，1960年生于英国。尼尔·盖曼是当代欧美文坛耀眼的新星，被《文学传记辞典》誉为十大后现代作家之一。 1989年，盖曼以漫画《睡魔》开始了创作之路。其后，他的创作逐渐涵盖了小说、漫画、诗歌、剧本等多个领域，代表作有《美国众神》《北欧众神》《坟场之书》《星尘》等。因其作品的独特风格和想象力，《迈阿密新时报》认为他已经成为“文学界的摇滚明星”；惊悚小说大师斯蒂芬·金则认为他“创作力之丰沃与作品水准之高，既神奇又吓人”。 《烟与镜》共收录盖曼29个经典短篇故事，涵盖其在惊悚小说、奇幻小说、同人小说以及叙事诗领域的佳作。 在《烟与镜》中，盖曼笔下的奇幻世界摒弃人类世界的道德标准和文明，将数千年来被压抑的人性彻底释放。故事诡异而有趣，让人看得头皮发麻。

A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . </p> In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . . </p> In a Hugo Award-winni...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night. . . . In a Hugo Awardwinning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal murder in a strangely altered Victorian England. . . . Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams—and nightmares. . . . These marvelous...(展开全部)

尼尔·盖曼（Neil Gaiman） 当代大师级幻想小说家，1960年生于英国。尼尔·盖曼是当代欧美文坛耀眼的新星，也是幻想文学的代名词，被《文学传记辞典》誉为十大后现代作家之一。 1989年，盖曼以漫画《睡魔》开始了创作之路。其后，他的创作逐渐涵盖了小说、漫画、诗歌、剧本等多个领域，代表作有《美国众神》《北欧众神》《烟与镜》《坟场之书》。因其作品的独特风格和想象力，《迈阿密新时报》认为他已经成为“文学界的摇滚明星”；惊悚小说大师斯蒂芬·金则认为他“创作力之丰沃与作品水准之高，既神奇又吓人”。 《高能预警》共收录盖曼24个经典短篇故事，囊括其在恐怖小说、奇幻小说、同人小说以及暗黑童话领域的佳作。 在《高能预警》中，盖曼笔下的奇幻世界再次摒弃人类世界的道德标准和文明，将被压抑了数千年的原始人性彻底释放。故事诡异而有趣，让人看得后背发凉。

The era of buying and holding stocks is gone -- and will not return for some time. Now is the time to learn to target where the market is going to be, not where it has been, so you can invest successfully. Financial expert John Mauldin makes a powerful, almost irrefutable case regarding the future direction of the markets. He then details a new approach to investing that will a...(展开全部)

Everyone has a role to play in software testing -- even people outside a project team. Testers, developers, managers, customers, and users shape the process and results of testing, often unwittingly. Rather than continue to generate stacks of documents and fuel animosity, testers can cultivate rich opportunities and relationships by integrating an effective testing mentality in...(展开全部)

A thinking person's guide to reality." "The science of perspective has informed the representational and decorative arts since their inception, and its gradual perfection during the Renaissance was as important an event as any of the other mathematical and scientific developments of the time. Beginning with the evolution of visual perspective, Phoebe McNaughton reveals how and ...(展开全部)

哈罗德•布鲁姆，当代美国极富影响的文学理论家、批评家。1930年生于纽约，曾执教于耶鲁大学、纽约大学和哈佛大学等知名高校。主要研究领域包括诗歌批评、理论批评和宗教批评，代表作有《西方正典》（1994）、《如何读，为什么读》（2000）、《影响的剖析》（2001）等。被誉为“西方传统中最有天赋、最具原创性和最富煽动性的一位文学批评家”。

In Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala argue that, contrary to Donald Norman's famous dictum, we do not always want our computers to be invisible "information appliances." They say that a computer does not feel like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner; it feels like a medium that is now taking its plac...(展开全部)