西蒙娜•德•波伏瓦（Simone de Beauvoir 1908.1.9—1986.4.14)，20世纪法国最有影响的女性之一，存在主义学者、文学家。波伏瓦一生著作甚丰，其中以荣获龚古尔文学奖的长篇小说《名士风流》、被奉为女权主义圣经的理论著作《第二性》和鸿篇巨制的回忆录《波伏瓦回忆录 第一卷：端方淑女》《第二卷：岁月的力量》《第三卷：事物的力量》《第四卷：归根到底》最为突出。20世纪50年代，波伏瓦访问中国，遂有《长征》（1957）问世。此外，其他重要作品有《女宾》《他人之血》《存在主义与民族智慧》等。 陈筱卿，1963年毕业于北京大学西语系法语专业，国际关系学院教授、研究生导师，享有国务院政府特殊津贴，国家人事部考试中心专家组成员。翻译出版法国名家名著多部，达八百多万字，有：拉伯雷的《巨人传》、卢梭的《忏悔录》、雨果的《巴黎圣母院》、大仲马的《...(展开全部)

The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts.

在线阅读本书 Book Description She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatically change the course of world events -- if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient and mysterious assassin, a...(展开全部)

The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts.

在线阅读本书 Book Description She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatically change the course of world events -- if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient and mysterious assassin, a...(展开全部)

Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today.

Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War Two raging around her, one young girl is struggling to make sense of her life. Then she is given a book of ancient Norse legends and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Intensely autobigraphical and linguistically stunning, this book is a landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's truly great writers....(展开全部)

A.S.拜雅特，1936年生于英国，1990年凭借近50万字的长篇小说《隐之书》摘获英国布克小说奖，2008年跻身《泰晤士报》评选的“1945年以来英国最重要的50位作家”之列。 主要作品有长篇小说《太阳影子》（1964）、《游戏》（1968）、《花园处子》（1978）、《宁静生活》（1985）、《隐之书》（1990），以及中短篇小说集《夜莺眼中的精灵》等。 她的作品因处于大众阅读和严肃阅读之间，常常引起评论界和读者的剧烈争论。但是，因其文学功底的博大精深、作品架构的宏阔气魄、情节的奇绝、文字的精巧，又常常令人在惊叹之余，纷纷放弃争论。

In the footsteps of Margaret Atwood''s bestselling Penelopiad comes an intensely autobiographical and timely tale from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and The Children''s Book. Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose...(展开全部)