The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a ...(展开全部)

How did the universe grow from a tiny fireball to its present size? Where did life on earth come from? How do planets form? How will it end? And how do we even know all this anyway? John Gribbin, one of Britain's most popular writers about science and the people who made it happen, has decided to create a biography of the greatest subject of all: the universe itself, from begin...(展开全部)

约翰·格里宾是当今最伟大的科普作家，他所著的畅销书包括《寻找薛定谔的猫》、《星尘》、《科学史》、《深刻的简单性》和《科学家》等。他善于用简单的语言传递复杂的思想。他曾说他写作的目的（他的多数作品都是与妻子玛丽·格里宾共同创作的）是与读者分享他对于宇宙陌生性所怀有的好奇。格里宾毕业于剑桥大学，专业是天体物理学。目前他是苏塞克斯大学天文学专业的访问学者。业余时间他还喜欢从事科幻小说创作。他的大部分作品都是在家里后花园里的小棚子下完成的。

The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel—a particular packaging of bits—conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture i...(展开全部)

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)

The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Its reviews have generally recognized its excellence and it was named a New York Times Editor's Choice. The novel fits the expectations of a number of different novel genres: immigrant, mystery, political, ...(展开全部)

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twen...(展开全部)

A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misinterprets the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could l...(展开全部)

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award An American Library Association Notable Book Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Str...(展开全部)

保罗·比第（Paul Beatty），生于1962年，美国当代著名作家、诗人，先后获得波士顿大学心理学学士学位、布鲁克林大学艺术硕士学位。 20世纪90年代，保罗·比第以诗人身份崭露头角，出版诗集《大银行收了小银行》《小王，大王，2》等；90年代中期投入小说创作，1996年出版小说处女作《白人男孩曳步舞》，被《纽约时报》称赞为“天赋之作”，随后出版《岩石》《梦乡》。 2015年，出版耗时五年写就的小说《背叛》，于当年捧回全美书评家协会奖，横扫《纽约时报》等数十家媒体年度书榜，次年一举拿下布克奖，成为美国历史上第一位获得布克奖的作家。 保罗·比第现居纽约，在哥伦比亚大学教授创意写作。