Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in forms and length, have appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Threepenny Review, T...(展开全部)

卡罗琳·帕克丝特，美国著名畅销书作家。毕业于美利坚大学创作研究所。大学毕业后，曾经在书店工作三年，而后才全心投入创作。她的作品散见于《北美评论》、《明尼苏达评论》、《夏威夷评论》、《新月评论》。《巴别塔之犬》是她正式出版的第一部小说，甫一出版即引起热烈回响，有书评家说她具有强烈的阿言德风格：雾气浓重的鬼魅深夜、古老的民间传说、给予人如梦般的阅读历程；更有书评家赞许她是美国新生代作家之中最耀眼的一位。卡罗琳．帕克斯特现今与丈夫及儿子住在华盛顿特区，第二本小说Lost & Found也已经在美出版。 何致和，1967年生于台北。文化大学英文系，东华大学创作与英语文学研究所毕业。短篇小说曾获联合报文学奖、宝岛小说奖、教育部文艺创作奖。着有小说集《失去夜的那一夜》、长篇小说《白色城市的忧郁》。另有《酸臭之屋》、《恶梦工厂》、《时间线》、《人骨拼图》、《战争魔...(展开全部)

Ramona's third evil ex-boyfriend, Todd Ingram, is currently dating the former love of Scott Pilgrim's life! Envy Adams broke Scott's heart a year and a half ago. Now she and her evil art-rock band are back, and they're getting Scott's band to open a show two days from now! That's just enough time for Scott to fight Todd, keep Ramona happy, fend off demented ex-girlfriends, and ...(展开全部)

Scott Pilgrim just turned 24, and things couldn't possibly be better! This means things are about to get infinitely worse. Suddenly, TWO of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends are in town, and they're playing dirty. His band is in turmoil, and his own exes aren't making things any easier. And what's up with Ramona, anyway? She's been acting kinda weird ever since they moved in together...(展开全部)

The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in "significant otherness." In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not just surrogates for theory, she says; they are not here just to think with. Neither are they just an alibi for other themes; dogs are f...(展开全部)

斯坦利·科伦(Stanlev Coren)，畅销小说作家，不列颠哥伦比亚大学心理学教授及著名犬类行为学专家，多年来一直站在犬类研究的最前沿，曾主持电视节目《好狗》(Good Dog)。他和家人居住在加拿大温哥华，和他们一起生活的还有他妻子的猫和他的一只比格犬、一只查理土王小猎犬和一只斯科舍诱鸭寻回犬。

Cat Warren is a university professor and former journalist with an admittedly odd hobby: She and her German shepherd have spent the last seven years searching for the dead. Solo is a cadaver dog. What started as a way to harness Solo’s unruly energy and enthusiasm soon became a calling that introduced Warren to the hidden and fascinating universe of working dogs, their handlers...(展开全部)