Abby wants a baby more than anything. But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future. That is, until her personal assistant Monica makes a generous offer that will make all of Abby's dreams come true. Or all of her nightmares. Because it turns out Monica isn't who she says she is. The woman ...(展开全部)

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a com...(展开全部)

This title is part of the fabulous new hardback library of 22 Vladimir Nabokov books, publishing over the coming year, with an elegant new jacket and text design. The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of tho...(展开全部)

弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫，纳博科夫是二十世纪公认的杰出小说家和文体家。 一八九九年四月二十三日，纳博科夫出生于圣彼得堡。布尔什维克革命期间，纳博科夫随全家于一九一九年流亡德国。他在剑桥三一学院攻读法国和俄罗斯文学后，开始了在柏林和巴黎十八年的文学生涯。 九四〇年，纳博科夫移居美国，在韦尔斯利、斯坦福、康奈尔和哈佛大学执教，以小说家、诗人、批评家和翻译家身份享誉文坛，著有《庶出的标志》《洛丽塔》《普宁》和《微暗的火》等长篇小说。 一九五五年九月十五日，纳博科夫的代表作品《洛丽塔》由巴黎奥林匹亚出版社出版并引发争议。 一九六一年，纳博科夫迁居瑞士蒙特勒；一九七七年七月二日病逝。

奇迹降临到她头上，她得到的远超预期。 艾比渴望一个孩子，胜过一切。 但多年来，不孕不育治疗失败，领养计划也屡屡受挫，她似乎对未来遥不可及。 直到她的私人助理莫妮卡慷慨解囊，提出为她代理。这份提议将使艾比的所有梦想成真。 但很快，怪事接踵而至。莫妮卡的真面目被揭开。如今，这位怀着艾比孩子的女人，背后隐藏着一个不可告人的秘密。 为了得到她想要的东西，她会不择手段。 《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的作者芙蕾达·麦克法登，倾情奉献了这部引人入胜的作品，重新定义了家庭的意义…… She was promised a miracle. She got more then she bargained for. Abby wants a baby more than anything. But after years of failed infertility treat...(展开全部)

The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In "The Sinister Way", Richard von Glahn examine...(展开全部)

The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In "The Sinister Way", Richard von Glahn examine...(展开全部)

In Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies, from sex robots and military drones to sharing-economy platforms, Atanasoski and Vora show how liberal str...(展开全部)

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。