Scalzi is at heart a humorist — his novel The Android's Dream opens with a chapter-long fart joke — though the difficulties of marketing humorous science fiction have often caused publishers to downplay that. But Redshirts, which is being advertised as a Star Trek parody, may signal that Scalzi has achieved a profile sufficient enough to be beyond such worries. Redshirts concer...(展开全部)

Scalzi is at heart a humorist — his novel The Android's Dream opens with a chapter-long fart joke — though the difficulties of marketing humorous science fiction have often caused publishers to downplay that. But Redshirts, which is being advertised as a Star Trek parody, may signal that Scalzi has achieved a profile sufficient enough to be beyond such worries. Redshirts concer...(展开全部)

南非天才编剧家，小说家，全球出版商和好莱坞电影公司眼中“还未长成的J•K罗琳”。 《从天而落》是她的首部小说，还未出版便以其奇特性与震撼力深深打动了全球出版界，版权售至全球21个国家，电影版权被好莱坞6大影视公司热抢。 本书故事的叙述采取仿纪实手法，讲述不可思议的坠机事件以及事件发生后更加不可思议的后续，与现实生活中地球上发生的空难事件有着惊人的相似，读来让人特别感同身受。紧张的情节和对人性深刻的拷问可谓是撼人心魄，对人类各种情感的刻画深沉细腻。 美国恐怖小说天王级人物斯蒂芬•金的盛赞，称她为“迈克尔•克莱顿和秀莉•杰克逊的完美融合”。而著名的科克斯书评评论《从天而落》“并非浅薄的毛骨悚然，而是全球政治、宗教、人性、社会结构的深思。 如今本书的续集正在写作中。

In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness - and with equal good humor - the insights of Western social science, feminist politics,...(展开全部)

THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh...(展开全部)

This volume presents a collection of Martine Francke's photographs - her own favourites - grouped within themes of childhood, the theatre, the Orient, old age, portraits, museums and landscapes. In creating her pictures, which range from portraits of Michel Foucault and Marc Chagall, Franck sees the camera as "a frontier...that one is constantly breaking down so as to get close...(展开全部)

In the wake of his enormously popular books The Armchair Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex , Slate columnist and Economics professor Steven Landsburg uses concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: What is real? What can we know? What is the difference between right and wrong? And how should we live? Landsburg begins with ...(展开全部)

This book describes how one can use The Scientific Method to solve everyday problems including medical ailments, health issues, money management, traveling, shopping, cooking, household chores, etc. It illustrates how to exploit the information collected from our five senses, how to solve problems when no information is available for the present problem situation, how to increa...(展开全部)

This book describes how one can use The Scientific Method to solve everyday problems including medical ailments, health issues, money management, traveling, shopping, cooking, household chores, etc. It illustrates how to exploit the information collected from our five senses, how to solve problems when no information is available for the present problem situation, how to increa...(展开全部)

When it comes time for the three little wolves to go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the big bad pig. But the little wolves' increasingly sturdy dwellings are no match for the persistent porker, who has more up his sleeve than huffing and puffing. It takes a chance encounter with a flamingo pushing a wheelbarrow full of flowers...(展开全部)