彼得·门德尔桑德（Peter Mendelsund） 世界知名书籍装帧设计师、作家、古典钢琴演奏家。毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学文学与哲学专业，是《大西洋月刊》的创意总监，曾担任美国克诺夫出版社艺术副总监、万神殿书局艺术总监。他操刀的封面有《情人》、卡夫卡作品系列、卡尔维诺作品系列等。 《纽约时报》称他为“如今活跃着的最顶尖的设计师”。《华尔街日报》称他的作品为“当代小说封面中最具辨识度与代表性的设计”。

彼得·门德尔桑德（Peter Mendelsund） 世界知名书籍装帧设计师、作家、古典钢琴演奏家。毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学文学与哲学专业，是《大西洋月刊》的创意总监，曾担任美国克诺夫出版社艺术副总监、万神殿书局艺术总监。他操刀的封面有《情人》、卡夫卡作品系列、卡尔维诺作品系列等。 《纽约时报》称他为“如今活跃着的最顶尖的设计师”。《华尔街日报》称他的作品为“当代小说封面中最具辨识度与代表性的设计”。

塔米姆•安萨利 历史学家、专栏作家，美国历史上最悠久的旧金山作家工作坊（San Francisco Writers Workshop）的指导人。 1948年生于阿富汗，1964年移居美国，拥有阿富汗和美国两国血统，现居旧金山。他长期在《旧金山纪事报》《洛杉矶时报》《沙龙》等报刊上发表文章和评论，著有《喀布尔以西，纽约以东》《中断的天命》等。

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim ...(展开全部)

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim ...(展开全部)

Here are rhyming riddles that challenge readers to find objects hidden throughout bright, cluttered photographs.

“Renault’s best historical novel yet.... Every detail has solid historical testimony to support it.”– New York Review of Books After Alexander’s death in 323 B.C .his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives, and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increa...(展开全部)

Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive exp...(展开全部)

The first years of the poker boom were fueled by the interest in no-limit hold em tournaments. Recently, however, players have been gravitating to another, even more complex form of hold em no-limit cash games. In Harrington on Cash Games: Volume I, Dan Harrington teaches you the key concepts that drive deep-stack cash game play. You ll learn how to tailor your selection of s...(展开全部)