"I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them." With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the nove...(展开全部)

"I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them." With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the nove...(展开全部)

约翰•斯卡尔齐（John Scalzi） 美国当红科幻作家，美国科幻与奇幻作家协会前会长。三次获得雨果奖，十次入围。2005年，他以《老人的战争》成名，获得2006年约翰•W.坎贝尔优秀新人奖。2013年，他凭借《红衫》包揽雨果奖、轨迹奖两项大奖。 斯卡尔齐深受罗伯特·海因莱因、奥森·斯科特·卡德等人的影响，题材多以惊险刺激的军事科幻为主，擅长运用对话推动情节发展，人物风格各异，语言辛辣幽默。其作品已被翻译成二十多种语言，深受各国读者的欢迎。 “老人的战争”六部曲是斯卡尔齐的代表作，该系列一共五次入围雨果奖、轨迹奖，并多次获得日本星云赏、以色列格芬奖等国际大奖。《万物的终结》是“老人的战争”六部曲的终结篇。历经十年创作的“老人的战争”六部曲以及“老屁帮”成员们的太空冒险故事在本书中迎来大结局。

Service of All the Dead is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the fourth novel in his Inspector Morse series. The novel describes a series of murders in and around St Frideswide's Church, Cornmarket, which corresponds to St Mary Magdalen Church, Magdalen Street rather than the much smaller St Michael's Church, Cornmarket. The original church of St Frideswide was at the Priory of St...(展开全部)

"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT." --The New York Times Book Review This time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the crime--the brutal killing of a suburban churchwarden...(展开全部)

The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution. Chief Inspector Morse was alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest in the quiet parish of St Frideswide's. Most people could still remember the churchwarden's murder. A fe...(展开全部)

With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual. DNA does not make us who we are. “Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence,” he writes. “In recent years, a mountain of scientific ...(展开全部)

Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was a man of faith: by evening he led the family Bible study, and by day he manipulated infinite series and assigned limits also by faith, if not by sight. Lacking clear definitions and useful theorems for the concepts of function, limit, and convergence, unencumbered by logical rigor, and despite progressive blindness, Euler did not hesitate to inve...(展开全部)

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what is the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? This question has preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there was a time, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when scientists and mathematicians felt they could provide the a...(展开全部)

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what "is" the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? Is it the world that operates the most efficiently? Or the one in which most people are comfortable and content? Questions such as these have preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there...(展开全部)