Comnbining dark humor, Hitchcock-like suspense, and film-noir prose, these three unique novels--united--form a powerful and thought-provoking puzzle.

Paul Auster’s signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room—haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of sociolinguistic research, bringing the reader up to date on its methods, findings and achievements. In over thirty pages of n...(展开全部)

A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman Quinn writes mysteries." The Washington Post" has described him as a "post-existentialist private eye." An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print. Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphic...(展开全部)

摩根•福尔克纳（Morgan Falconer），艺术评论家，常驻纽约记者，为Art Review，The New Statementsman，Modern Painters等众多报刊撰写文章。

罗宾·内葛（Robin Nagle）自2006年起，任纽约市清洁部人类学家。她是纽约大学人类学与城市研究的临床教学副教授，负责人文学科与社会思想专业的德雷珀跨学科硕士项目。

New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quickly as it accumulates, it's hauled away. But who makes that happen? What's life like for the workers with careers built around garbage? In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle takes us inside New York City's Department of Sanitation, a largely unseen and often unloved ar...(展开全部)

A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an is...(展开全部)

让—雅克·桑贝（1932—），法国国宝级插画大师，长期为《纽约客》杂志供稿。出身清贫的他自学成才，利用工作闲暇为不同的报纸和杂志供稿，逐渐成长为顶尖插画师。和勒内·戈西尼共同创作的《小淘气尼古拉》系列在全世界范围内售出1500万册。