An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sist...(展开全部)

An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sist...(展开全部)

This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century — and his discoveries went on to shape the twe...(展开全部)

The diary of a young Victorian boy born with clairvoyance.

The diary of a young Victorian boy born with clairvoyance.

In this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce. And when, on the boy's behalf, Tom Ripley is drawn from his lovely estate in the French countryside to Berlin's seamy underworld and into a kidnapping plot that requires the most bizarre methods--and sinister acumen--for intervention, the icily amoral Ripley is transf...(展开全部)

Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction dra...(展开全部)

威廉•坎宽巴 1987年8月5日出生于非洲马拉维的多瓦小镇。他14岁辍学，开始自学物理，摸索风车发电机的发明的制作方法，三年后试验成功，随后不断改进，19岁时被美国教授发现，他发明风车的事迹广为人知，得到重回校园的机会。20岁时，他受邀参加世界顶级精英汇聚的TED（科技、娱乐与设计）论坛，21岁时，在世界经济论坛非洲会议上发表演讲。如今他就读于美国新罕布什尔州的达特茅斯学院。 布赖恩•米勒 自由撰稿人，另著有《为生存而斗争：刚果的战争和救援故事》等。曾做过新闻记者，在《哈泼斯》和《君子》等知名杂志任职。

威廉•坎宽巴 1987年8月5日出生于非洲马拉维的多瓦小镇。他14岁辍学，开始自学物理，摸索风车发电机的发明的制作方法，三年后试验成功，随后不断改进，19岁时被美国教授发现，他发明风车的事迹广为人知，得到重回校园的机会。20岁时，他受邀参加世界顶级精英汇聚的TED（科技、娱乐与设计）论坛，21岁时，在世界经济论坛非洲会议上发表演讲。如今他就读于美国新罕布什尔州的达特茅斯学院。 布赖恩•米勒 自由撰稿人，另著有《为生存而斗争：刚果的战争和救援故事》等。曾做过新闻记者，在《哈泼斯》和《君子》等知名杂志任职。