In every story Clyde Clason has written he has woven his mystery around an unusual background of subject, and in this book, he surpassed himself. Nobody but he could so convincingly have woven into a modern American mystery story the strange customs and weird rites of colorful Tibet. Adam Merriweather, a Chicago collector, buys an eighth century sacred Tibetan manuscript. This ...(展开全部)

At once a pop culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch’s work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar but inscrutable. No less than his art, Lynch’s life also evades simple categorization, ...(展开全部)

The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds itself caught in a web of alliances and dangerous warmongering. To help tip the balance in their favour Britain aims to draw Russia in...(展开全部)

His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. He had many weapons at his command, but the most dangerous were the love of a beautiful young woman longing for the end of innocence, and the passion of a high-born lady demanding satisfaction at any price. Against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, ...(展开全部)

帕特里克•莫迪亚诺，法国当代著名作家，2014年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。 莫迪亚诺1945年生于巴黎郊外布洛涅—比扬古地区，父亲是犹太金融企业家，母亲是比利时演员。1968年莫迪亚诺在伽利玛出版社出版处女作《星形广场》一举成名。1972年的《环城大道》获法兰西学院小说大奖，1978年的《暗店街》获得龚古尔奖。1996年，莫迪亚诺获得法国国家文学奖。他还分别于2010年和2012年获得法兰西学院奇诺•德尔杜卡基金会世界奖和奥地利欧洲文学奖这两项终身成就奖。 莫迪亚诺的小说常常通过寻找、调查、回忆和探索，将视野转回到从前的岁月，描写“消逝”的过去；也善于运用象征手法，通过某一形象表现出深远的含义。 自1968年至今，莫迪亚诺已经创作近三十部小说，在三十多个国家出版。

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases and nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man: John von Neumann. Born in Budapest at the turn of the century, von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived. His colleagues believed he had th...(展开全部)

An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann. Born in ...(展开全部)

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases and nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man: John von Neumann. Born in Budapest at the turn of the century, von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived. His colleagues believed he had th...(展开全部)