克里斯托弗•奈特（Christopher Knight）从事广告和营销工作已长达30多年，是顾客心理学和市场研究方面的专家。他曾花7年时间研究共济会仪式(Freemasonic rituals)的起源。后来，似乎是在不经意间，奈特开始了写作生涯。迄今为止，他和罗伯特•洛马斯（Robert Lomas）已合著出版4本书。奈特的处女作《海勒姆密钥》（The Hiram Key）于1996年出版，甫一面市，便位列英国畅销书榜单前十名，并连续保持8周之久。此书已经译成37种语言，全球总销售量高达100多万册，在数个国家成为畅销书。现在，奈特把时间和精力集中于两个方面：一是担任营销顾问；二是为写书进行历史研究。 阿兰•巴特勒（Alan Butler）是执业工程师，但一直痴迷历史，是占星术和天文学方面的专家。1990年以来，他一直在研究古代文化和多神教，并对不同...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗•奈特（Christopher Knight）从事广告和营销工作已长达30多年，是顾客心理学和市场研究方面的专家。他曾花7年时间研究共济会仪式(Freemasonic rituals)的起源。后来，似乎是在不经意间，奈特开始了写作生涯。迄今为止，他和罗伯特•洛马斯（Robert Lomas）已合著出版4本书。奈特的处女作《海勒姆密钥》（The Hiram Key）于1996年出版，甫一面市，便位列英国畅销书榜单前十名，并连续保持8周之久。此书已经译成37种语言，全球总销售量高达100多万册，在数个国家成为畅销书。现在，奈特把时间和精力集中于两个方面：一是担任营销顾问；二是为写书进行历史研究。 阿兰•巴特勒（Alan Butler）是执业工程师，但一直痴迷历史，是占星术和天文学方面的专家。1990年以来，他一直在研究古代文化和多神教，并对不同...(展开全部)

The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we've lost. "A deft blend of nostalgia, humor and devastating insights."--People Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from t...(展开全部)

The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we've lost. "A deft blend of nostalgia, humor and devastating insights."--People Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from t...(展开全部)

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him---new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael ConnellyBack when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every c...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•鲍德温（1924—1987），美国著名小说家、散文家、诗人、剧作家和社会活动家，生于纽约哈莱姆区，童年坎坷，生父有毒瘾问题，后母亲嫁给牧师大卫·鲍德温，又生育8个孩子。 1938年，受其严苛的继父的影响，14岁的鲍德温成为了哈莱姆地区的一名牧师。17岁时，鲍德温决定脱离教会。19岁生日那天，其继父去世，当天哈莱姆地区也发生了暴动。 1948年，对美国的种族现实极度失望的鲍德温选择移居法国。1953年，鲍德温出版了带有很强的自传色彩的处女作《向苍天呼吁》。此后的三十年里，他陆续出版了《 土生子札记》《乔万尼的房间》《另一个国度》《下一次将是烈火》《告诉我火车开走了多久》《如果比尔街会说话》等著名作品。 1957年，鲍德温回到美国，投入当时如火如荼的黑人解放运动。1987年12月1日， 鲍德温因肺癌在法国去世。他一生著有六部长篇小说、四部剧本、十...(展开全部)