作者：雷蒙·斯尼奇（本名丹尼尔·汉德勒） 是位编故事的高手。1970年，他出生于美国，1998年开始用雷蒙·斯尼奇这个笔名创作《波特莱尔大遇险》系列小说，并一举成名，盘踞《纽约时报》畅销榜长达600多周，受到《纽约时报》《美国新闻和世界报道》等一众主流媒体的高度评价。而由此系列小说改编的电影《雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险》上映后，更是受到读者观众的追捧。从此，他便用小说里的这个人物的名字开始一系列的创作。他不仅会写故事，在音乐和电影方面也有很高的造诣。因此他的作品所呈现的画面感极强，阅读时经常会有身临其境的感觉。他了解孩子的内心世界，所以才能把儿童的心理活动及感受描写的那么透彻。 绘者：乔恩·克拉森 出生于1981年的加拿大新锐画家。他的第一本自写自画图画书《我要把我的帽子找回来》，一经面世，便受到了读者的喜爱。被《纽约时报书评》评为“2011年度10本最...(展开全部)

In this highly original novel Slauerhoff (1898-1936) reprises major themes from his poetry (erotic obsession, nomadism, persecution and confused identity) within a more ambitious formal framework. The book interweaves three narratives, separated in time but linked by a common association with the 'forbidden kingdom' of China. The first of these is the brutal and bloody founding...(展开全部)

There were two Norman Conquests. John Julius Norwich is writing about the 'other' one, the conquest of Sicily. When on Christmas Day 1130, Roger de Hauteville had himself crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was as brilliant as it was cosmopolitan; to an i...(展开全部)

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in the presence of the bishop of Paris and a number of...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet-in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport-these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe. The...(展开全部)

Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's "The Dark Ship", we experience an extraordinary new voice in fiction, which tells us the story of the kind of trauma and striving that leads a man from religious extremism to a vain hope fo...(展开全部)

麦家，现居成都。出版有长篇小说，《解密》《暗算》，小说集《紫密黑密》《地下的天空》《让蒙面人说话》等多部。其笔下人物均系一群智力超凡的天才特工，其文风智性灵异，偏执不羁，是中国“新智力小说”和“特情小说”的开创者。根据其同名小说改编的电视剧《暗算》深受观众喜爱。

《三体2：黑暗森林》叙述了面对前所未有的危局，地球人组建起同样庞大的太空舰队，同时利用三体人思维透明的致命缺陷，制订了神秘莫测的“面壁计划，精选出四位“面壁者”。三体人自身虽无法识破人类的诡谲计谋，却依靠由地球人中的背叛者挑选出“破壁人”，与“面壁者”展开智慧博弈。作为面壁者之一的罗辑发现了黑暗森林法则，通过这一法则，罗辑想到了对付三体文明入侵的办法。