From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage. Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't.As a result, readers are guided along the astoni...(展开全部)

威廉·布莱克斯通生于1723年，死于1780年。他是中下层英国人中的一个，完全由于自己的才华横溢而出人头地。孩童时，他设法进了英国有名的公立学校之一——查特豪斯公学；离开那里他进了牛津大学（在幼小的15岁时），并爱上了大学生活。他与其他一些像约翰逊博士、戴维·加里克和乔舒亚·雷诺兹爵士那样的杰出人物一起，都是牛津杰姆布洛克学院的学员。如同约翰逊所言：“我们是一窝欢唱的鸟”——其中就有布莱克斯通这位布商的孩子，他极其热爱经典文学和学者悠然自得的生活。附带说明一下，那是一个“未经改革的牛津大学”的年代，该大学由于其“喝高酒精度的波尔园葡萄酒的教师——后来布莱克斯通自己也变成了人所共知的“一天两瓶的酒鬼”——以及“墙壁讲师”，也即讲课时绕空四壁、无人听讲的教师而声名狼藉。布莱克斯通在牛津大学的环境中茁壮成长，在那里他学习民法。1745年，由于他以持续饱满的...(展开全部)

A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.

◾️【内容简介】 《The Book》是日本推理作家乙一根据漫画家荒木飞吕彦的漫画《JOJO的奇妙冒险》创作的一部全新长篇推理小说，故事由杜王町一只浑身沾满血的猫展开，四个不同角度的故事线逐渐汇集，构建起一个热烈而又悲戚的短暂人生。少年莲见琢马为给母亲飞来明里复仇而在杜王町展开了一系列行动，琢马拥有“替身使者”的奇特能力，使用这个能力的工具就是书中出现的“The Book”，他因为对妈妈遭受的屈辱痛苦感同身受，于是决定运用自己的能力为母亲复仇。少年广濑康一奔走调查，漫画家岸边露伴目睹着一切，少女双叶千帆用爱和善意陪伴着琢马，真相逐渐浮现，一出复仇悲剧铺展。 乙一用冷静的笔触呈现了双线并行的故事，带领读者进入他构建的异世界，随着真相的一点点揭秘，感受到故事中人物的辛酸悲苦和孤独无助。如同人类的善恶在一念之间，“The Book”的存在，可以仅仅是记忆的...(展开全部)

Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia’s most important literary award) for being “a masterpiece of its time.” Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her ...(展开全部)

Tara Selter’s epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia’s most beloved writers. The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap ...(展开全部)

Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia’s most important literary award) for being “a masterpiece of its time.” Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her ...(展开全部)