胡安·何塞·米利亚斯 Juan José Millás 西班牙当代小说家、记者和专栏作家。 一九四六年生于西班牙瓦伦西亚，作品常见于西班牙各报章媒体，目前是西班牙第一大报《 报》专栏作家。一九八三年以青少年小说《浸湿的纸》扬名文坛，书评给予极高肯定，并成为西班牙教育部指定的中学生读物。一九九○年以《这就是孤独》获得极受推崇的“纳达尔文学奖”，本书已被译介成英、法、德等多国语言，米利亚斯也以此书跃上 文坛。目前已创作二十多部小说，包括一九八六年《在你的名字里失序》、一九九○年《回家》、一九九八年《按照字母顺序》等，二○○二年则以《两个女子，在布拉格》获颁 “春天小说奖”。他的短篇小说亦颇获好评，一九九二年出版《寡妇的另一个春天》，一九九四年出版的《她的想象……》曾被改编成舞台剧，在西班牙及拉丁美洲各地巡演。

史蒂夫·克卢格，美国剧作家、小说家，生于1952 年，属二战后的“婴儿潮世代”，在披头士音乐的孕育中长大。克卢格的作品多以棒球、历史（尤其是二战）题材而著称，曾为《今日美国》等报纸撰写社论；除了写作，他长年投身民权运动，并致力于辅导青少年各类成长问题。写作、棒球和他的九个侄子侄女是他的至爱。

田纳西•威廉斯（Tennessee Williams，1911—1983），美国二十世纪最伟大的剧作家之一，与尤金•奥尼尔、阿瑟•米勒并称为美国戏剧三大家，同时也是全世界范围内作品流传最广的美国文学大师之一——主要通过舞台剧演出，尤其是电影。他一生创作了六十余部戏剧、小说和诗歌作品，以心理深度、象征手法和南方哥特风格著称，1948年和1955年分别以《欲望号街车》和《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》两度赢得普利策奖和纽约戏剧评论奖，《玻璃动物园》和《鬣蜥之夜》也分别于1945年和1961年拿下纽约戏剧评论奖，1952年《玫瑰文身》获得托尼奖最佳戏剧奖，1979年荣获肯尼迪中心荣誉奖（终身成就奖）。 田纳西•威廉斯一生饱受抑郁症、酗酒与药物成瘾的困扰，但他将痛苦转化为创作动力，他说：“写作是我能想象的最根本的救赎之道。”他以诗意的语言、深刻的同理心与无畏的真相揭示，...(展开全部)

"Last Days of Summer" is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third baseman for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome the extreme attention of a persistent young fan with an o...(展开全部)

This is a collection of the best predictions made by "Popular Mechanics" writers between 1903 and 1969. It features original, visually stunning artwork & a free poster. Each chapter is introduced by astrophysics professor and former NASA advisor Gregory Benford. Between 1903 and 1969, scientists and other experts made hundreds of predictions in "Popular Mechanics" about what th...(展开全部)

Alexei Yurchak is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full...(展开全部)

Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon is considered the towering figure of modern Hebrew literature. With this collection of stories, reissued in paperback and expanded to include additional Agnon classics, the English-speaking audience has, at long last, access to the rich and brilliantly multifaceted fictional world of one of the greatest writers of the last century. This broad selection...(展开全部)

"In the fifty-eight images of this handsome ... monograph, Sturges sustains a delicate balance on a very precarious wire ... His struggle is to observe and render his subjects in all of their complexities, trembling on the cusp of change. The result of this long-term, communal effort is one of the most clear-eyed, responsible investigations of puberty and the emergence of sexua...(展开全部)

那个期待爱的夏季就这样从指尖匆匆溜走 最初得到的感动 最末得到的失望 不要说你未曾爱过，只因为那是你与我爱的誓言。 那个落泪的瞬间，她仿佛听到了男孩的呢喃低语.. 解除爱情的诅咒的唯一方法就是去爱 用尽所有力气，更用力的去爱！