Thompson's ( The Paper Bag Prince ) haunting picture book is both serious and witty. The deceptively simple story opens with the death of the young narrator's grandfather, a raffish sailor. Responding to the death, Titanic the parrot says, "Hello, sailor," a contrary comment that sets up the narrator's contrarily successful search for mythical Atlantis. It is all around, Grandf...(展开全部)

全書蘊含詩意且文學性豐，跳脫驚悚概念，可說是史蒂芬金寫作生涯最好的嚴肅作品之一，充分顯露他對美國歷經越戰時期的悲憫之心與深刻記憶，完全呈現一個成熟小說家的文學風采！ 《勿忘我》，收錄五個橫跨1960至1999年的故事，分別發生在美國新英格蘭地區深受越戰遺毒的五個小鎮，故事之間好像各自獨立，卻又互有關聯，彼此交織出一整個龐大的故事架構，揭露了小孩子之間的純真友誼、成人醜惡的掠奪世界，以及美國人在越戰之後對抗不安的生存法則。危險、焦慮、還有人性最深層的蠢蠢慾望與期待救贖的希望，讓你置身其中、無法抽離……，深刻體驗史蒂芬‧金說故事鬼才的超凡魅力。而書中所介紹的經典電影、流行歌曲和書本，將美國的六○ 年代重新編織在讀者的眼前！ 史蒂芬金的《勿忘我》，承襲1998年《白骨袋》以來益發純熟的文學技巧，鋪陳出他自己最滿意的一種敘事氛圍。這一部小說收錄五...(展开全部)

Francis Bacon, long considered a minor figure in the founding of modern political thought, is now recognized as one of its foremost thinkers. Bacon not only championed a new type and method of scientific inquiry, he also developed a plan for how modern society could be re-ordered to accommodate and promote scientific progress. Bacon's scientific writings cannot be wholly unders...(展开全部)

"Let us listen to the counsels of American engineers. But let us beware of American architects!" declared Le Corbusier, who like other European architects of his time believed that he saw in the work of American industrial builders a model of the way architecture should develop. It was a vision of an ideal world, a "concrete Atlantis" made up of daylight factories and grain ele...(展开全部)