In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force. A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever―and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she m...(展开全部)

'Zesty' Daily Mail 'A real gem of a book' Stylist A wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de Janeiro Euridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While Antenor is busy congratulating himself on his excellent catch, Euridice spends her humdrum days ironing his shirts and removing t...(展开全部)

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Costa Award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world. 16-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his older brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children; he watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by a wealthy cou...(展开全部)

齐斯•德福林 Keith Devlin ： 2004国际毕达哥拉斯奖（International Pythagoras Prize）、2007卡尔•沙根科普奖（Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popluarization）得主，斯坦福大学人文科学与 先端科技研究中心（H-STAR）共同创办人及资深研究员，同时也是该校Media X研究计划的创立人之一。人称“Math Guy”的德福林教授研究领域广泛，包括数学认知、推理模式与信息理论等，并钻研以不同媒介传授数学予多元大众，致力推广“软数学的”观念。已出版著作近三十本，发表论文逾八十篇。目前居于加州帕洛阿尔托（Palo Alto）市。

齐斯•德福林 Keith Devlin ： 2004国际毕达哥拉斯奖（International Pythagoras Prize）、2007卡尔•沙根科普奖（Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popluarization）得主，斯坦福大学人文科学与 先端科技研究中心（H-STAR）共同创办人及资深研究员，同时也是该校Media X研究计划的创立人之一。人称“Math Guy”的德福林教授研究领域广泛，包括数学认知、推理模式与信息理论等，并钻研以不同媒介传授数学予多元大众，致力推广“软数学的”观念。已出版著作近三十本，发表论文逾八十篇。目前居于加州帕洛阿尔托（Palo Alto）市。

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss - it's time to go a-pirating! "The Invisible Hook" takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. Why did pirates fly flag...(展开全部)

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating "The Invisible Hook" takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. Why did pirates fly flags...(展开全部)

The 'invisible masterpiece' is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. This book shows the variety of ways in which the status and meaning of the masterpiece have been elevated and denigrated since the early nineteenth century. The ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of a...(展开全部)

As everyone knows, the United States Constitution is a tangible, visible document. Many see it in fact as a sacred text, holding no meaning other than that which is clearly visible on the page. Yet as renowned legal scholar Laurence Tribe shows, what is not written in the Constitution plays a key role in its interpretation. Indeed some of the most contentious Constitutional deb...(展开全部)

Emili Rosell, the young owner of one of Barcelona's top galleries, receives an old manuscript written by an Italian architect about the 'Invisible City' - an ambitious project dreamt up by King Charles III to build an alternative capital city in the Ebro delta. The manuscript tells of a lost masterpiece by the Venetian painter Tiepolo, and the site of the Invisible City is wher...(展开全部)