A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a ...(展开全部)

A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a ...(展开全部)

Humorous and undeniably original, this witty satire of religion and morality centers around a small town in Colombia that boasts two especially interesting residents: the idiot sons of the town priest's illegitimate daughter, Marcianita, who have been blessed with super sexual potency. Their ability to "cure" the ailing brings pilgrims to the town—as well as the media and sever...(展开全部)

Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development ...(展开全部)

"That one was the most beautiful machine I had ever laid eyes on." In a world where humans are the minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall. The stories that Ibis speaks are of the "seven novels...(展开全部)

The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books of the Year. Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, t...(展开全部)

戴夫·特朗伯，Collider.com网站的编辑，也是一名自由科学作家。 唐娜·J·纳尔逊，博士，俄克拉何马大学的化学教授，曾任美国化学学会主席，也是《绝命毒师》的科学顾问。 译者简介 单雯，西安外国语大学文学学士、应用语言学及测试学硕士，硕士期间于加州州立大学学习英语写作与应用语言学。中美富布莱特外语助教项目—犹他谷大学访问学者。现任西安建筑科技大学英语教师。 柯遵科，北京大学哲学博士，中国科学院大学人文学院副教授，中科院《自然辩证法通讯》杂志社编辑部副主任。主要从事科学史和科学哲学的研究。著作有《博尔赫斯与科学史》。

Robert Kagan gives us a picture of the world today in all its complexity and its simplicity. This is a world where America is dominant but cannot dominate, where the struggle for power and prestige goes on as it always has. Power is at the service of ideas, but the key ideas are also ideas about power: democracy and autocracy. All this in a hundred pages, with style, energy and...(展开全部)

Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict, and a new contest between weste...(展开全部)