Jennet is the daughter of the Witchfinder of Mercia and East Anglia. Whilst her father roams the countryside in search of heretics, Jennet is left behind to be schooled by her aunt Isobel in the New Philosophy principally expounded by Isaac Newton. But her aunt's style of scientific enquiry soon attracts the attention of the witchfinders. To save her aunt, Jennet travels to Cam...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 詹姆斯·莫罗（James Morrow）美国作家，星云奖最佳短篇小说和最佳中篇小说奖得主，并两度摘得世界奇幻奖最佳长篇小说奖。 莫罗被公认为科幻界最独树一帜的作家，他敢于挑战宏大题材，从不惧怕打破常规，其作品注重剖析宗教、人文主义、无神论等话题，充满奇幻元 素。但和一般奇幻作家不同的是，莫罗为这些元素设定了合理的科学解释，从而在“科幻”与“奇幻”之间达到了微妙的平衡。 莫罗自称为一名“科学人文主义者”“迷惑的朝圣者”“启蒙运动之子”，目前已出版十部长篇小说、三部中篇小说及若干短篇故事集。他历时九年写出《最后的猎巫人》这部气势恢宏的历史小说。 ◆作者曾获奖项 1988年 星云奖·最佳短篇小说奖 1991年 世界奇幻奖·最佳长篇小说奖 1992年 星云奖·最佳中长篇小说奖 1995年 世界奇幻奖·最佳长篇小说奖 2005年 乌托邦终身成就奖...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Nine years in the making, Morrow's richly detailed, cerebral tale of rationality versus superstitious bigotry is set in late-17th-century London and colonial New England, a time when everyday actions were judged according to the rigid Parliamentary Witchcraft Act and suspect women were persecuted for alleged acts of sorcery. Inquisitive, "...(展开全部)

Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller uses his evocative powers and the insight gained by four years in the forests of the Wolong and Tangjiahe panda reserves to document the pli...(展开全部)

Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.

Struggling stage actor Tommy Jump knows he has to stop chasing applause and start chasing greenbacks. But then he's offered the role of a lifetime: $150,000 for a six-month acting gig. With a newly pregnant fiancee depending on him, it's an opportunity he can't refuse, even though the offer comes from the strangest employer imaginable: the FBI. The feds won a small victory when...(展开全部)

Having already plundered Hitchcockian wrong-man scenarios (Why Are You Doing This?), zombie flicks (The Living and the Dead) and alternate history paradoxes (I Killed Adolf Hitler) for his own sardonic purposes, Jason goes this time for a multigenre mash-up that proves to be one of his most enjoyable books yet. In The Last Musketeer, Athos is still alive in modern-day Paris, a ...(展开全部)

希瓦娜•达玛利（Silvana De Mari）： 早年在意大利任外科医师，后辗转欧洲和非洲各地行医，改任心理治疗师，对人性有敏锐的观察与独到的剖析，著有《月亮左边最后一颗星星》、《野兽与美女》、《现实世界的喷火龙》等。 《最后的精灵》是她的第一本长篇小说，一出版即获国际文坛肯定，赢得意大利安徒生小说金奖、法国幻想文学小说组首奖、美国年度外国小说奖等多个重量级奖项。每个人心中都住了一个不愿意长大的孩子，在抗拒进入成人世界的日子里，这个孩子就是我们最大的慰藉和精神寄托。那个纯真、善良、孤独、勇敢、渴望爱和关怀的孩子值得我们重新认识，重新体会。

The best-selling textbook in its field, "The Last Dance" offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying. Integrating the experiential, scholarly, social, individual, emotional, and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, this acclaimed text provides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives. The ninth e...(展开全部)