麦家 继鲁迅、钱钟书、张爱玲后入选“企鹅经典文库”的当代作家。 . 1964年生于浙江富阳。 1986年写作，著有《人生海海》《风声》《解密》《暗算》等长篇小说。作品被译成三十多种语言。 2008年《暗算》获第七届茅盾文学奖。 2014年《解密》英文版被英国《经济学人》杂志评为“全球年度十佳小说”，2017年被英国《每日电讯报》选入“全球二十部间谍小说”。 2019年《人生海海》上市，首年发行量便破百万册。 . 《风声》是麦家代表作之一，作品具有奇异的想象力和独创性，人物内心幽暗神秘，故事传奇曲折，充满灵魂不可思议的力量。曾获《人民文学》杂志优秀长篇小说奖，麦家个人也因之获得华语文学传媒盛典年度小说家奖。根据小说改编的电影《风声》，掀起了中国当代谍战影视的狂潮，影响巨大。

Mark Richards是一位造诣颇深的作者和会议演讲者，他是金融服务行业的实战型SOA和企业体系结构师。除了发表大量文章之外，他还是《Java Transaction Design Strategies》（C4Media）的作者，以及《97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know》（O’Reilly）和《No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology Volumes 1 and 2》（Pragmatic Bookshelf）的丛集著者。他是消息传送机制、面向服务体系结构和事务管理领域的公认权威。Mark是NFJS软件研讨会（NFJS Software Symposium）系列的固定演讲者，并在世界各地的会议上发表演说。 Richard Monson-Haefel是《Enterprise...(展开全部)

Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, picks it up during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with: My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I a...(展开全部)

Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, picks it up during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with: My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I a...(展开全部)

Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that was identified as the afterglow of the big bang had to admit that it was more by accident than intention. At first its discoverers mistook the readings for the disruption caused by the droppings of pigeons that had nested in their t...(展开全部)

The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

It is 1936 in Berlin, Nazi Germany. A Japanese reporter named Sohei Tohge is covering the Berlin Olympic Games for the Japanese press. As he sits in the Japanese press box watching the many track and field events of the day, he receives a call from his younger brother Isao, who has been studying in Germany as an international student. The two make plans to meet as Isao mentions...(展开全部)

“Anyone whose life needs a course correction would be fortunate to be guided by The Wisdom of Insecurity . My life still is, some thirty years later." —Deepak Chopra, from the Introduction Alan W. Watts’s “message for an age of anxiety” is as powerful today as it waswhen this modern classic was first published. We spend too much time trying to anticipate and plan for the fut...(展开全部)