托尼·霍维茨（Tony Horwitz,1958-2019） 美国记者、作家。曾长期供职于《华尔街日报》，报道中东、非洲和巴尔干地区的战争和冲突，并于1995年获普利策新闻奖（美国）国内报道奖。在成为专职作家之前，亦为《纽约客》杂志撰稿。 霍维茨独特的报界工作经历使他在写作时乐于将旅途中的故事与真实历史结合起来。除本书外，他还著有《阁楼上的邦联军》（Confederates in the Attic）、《蓝色纬度》（Blue Latitudes）等类似风格的畅销作品。

Long before the Pilgrims, other Europeans pioneered North America, seeking land, converts and cities of gold. By exploring Americas lost, or often repressed, heritage, award-winning writer Tony Horwitz unmasks the countrys founding myths. A Voyage Long and Strange opens with the Vikings in ad 1000, but focuses on the neglected period in early American history between Columbuss ...(展开全部)

托尼·霍维茨（Tony Horwitz,1958-2019） 美国记者、作家。曾长期供职于《华尔街日报》，报道中东、非洲和巴尔干地区的战争和冲突，并于1995年获普利策新闻奖（美国）国内报道奖。在成为专职作家之前，亦为《纽约客》杂志撰稿。 霍维茨独特的报界工作经历使他在写作时乐于将旅途中的故事与真实历史结合起来。除本书外，他还著有《阁楼上的邦联军》（Confederates in the Attic）、《蓝色纬度》（Blue Latitudes）等类似风格的畅销作品。

Sandeep is an only child living in a Bombay high-rise and in this book makes two long visits to his extended family in Calcutta. This novel tells the story of the atmosphere in the small house where they live. Chaudhuri writes precisely and carefully trying to capture in the rhythms of his prose the faded happiness of things, the strange, pure remembered moments.

Otto Penzler’s collection of mystery, crime, suspense, espionage, and detective fiction was generally regarded as the best in the world. The result of decades spent obsessively acquiring the best and rarest books in the field, its unique contents and immense scope will never be replicated. In late 2018, this magnificent library was disassembled and sent to auction, scattering i...(展开全部)

From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. As a result he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep deprivation and eventually blown up by a car bomb which cost him his right arm and the sight of an eye. His experiences provoked an outpouring of creative thought on the role of law as a protector of human dign...(展开全部)

A window-crashing, high-flying, globe-traveling, ghost-battling adventure from the earliest days of Doctor Strange's training in the mystic arts! Part Indiana Jones, part Lord of the Rings, thrill to this new tale of how a selfish, arrogant surgeon collided with a hot-headed martial artist to become the greatest team the mystic arts have ever seen! If only they can stop hitting...(展开全部)

One of our most original thinkers addresses the scientific world's premier question: What is the nature of consciousness? In recent years the nature of consciousness-our immediately known experiences-has taken its place as the most profound problem that science faces. Now in this brilliant and thoroughly accessible new book Colin McGinn takes a provocative position on this per...(展开全部)

An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honor. 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...' For Leil...(展开全部)