Book Description The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly engaging novel is launched into a world of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantine conspiracies that whirl across the steppes and forlorn frontier towns of Turkey. And with The New Life, Pamuk himself vaults from the forefront of his country's writers into the arena of world literature. Through the single act of rea...(展开全部)

洛里·斯皮尔曼 美国人气作家，曾为语言病理学家和指导顾问，现居密歇根州东兰辛。 本书自出版以来，受到广泛关注，上市一个月，版权已授意大利、法国、德国、西班牙等29国，截止2015年中，累计销量已超过一百万册。同时，电影版权被二十世纪福克斯公司竞得，目前正在拍摄中。 《生命清单》是她首部小说。

The Life Divine is a major philosophical work of Sri Aurobindo.Sri Aurobindo presents a theory of evolution,which will culminate in the transformation of the human being and the advent of a divine life upon earth. The Life Divine first appeared serially in the monthly review Arya.The first edition and the first Volume of this monumental work was published in 1939.New Editions i...(展开全部)

Sri Aurobindo's principal philosophic work, a theory of spiritual evolution culminating in the transformation of man from a mental into a supramental being and the advent of a divine life upon earth.

With color, irony and sensitivity, Pulitzer prize-winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication absurdity, and daring that is the writer's life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, The Writing Life offers deeper insight into one of the most mysterious of professions.

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; ...(展开全部)

Erik H. Erickson's remarkable insights into the relationship of life history and history began with observations on a central stage of life: identity development in adolescence. This book collects three early papers that - along with "Childhood and Society" - many consider the best introduction to Erikson's theories.

Metamorphosis 2 is a collection of imaginative & pop-surrealist figurative art, executed by some of the finest and most influential artists working today. It features 50 contemporary artists, including HR Giger (right, front cover), Ron English, Robert Williams, Chris Mars, Lori Earley, Tiffany Bozic, Shawn Barber, David M. Bowers (left, back cover), Heidi Taillefer, David Stou...(展开全部)

大卫·古德赛尔（David S. Goodsell） 美国加州斯克里普研究中心（The Scripps Research Institute）分子生物学系教授，当代最为著名的科学插画师之一。 他的作品最令人着迷之处是：利用X射线晶体学技术获得准确的分子结构，然后用水彩画将它们完美地展现出来，使人们获得对分子精微世界的具象认识如此感性而又具有科学的准确性。作为一名分子生物学家，古德赛尔在承袭了欧洲数世纪以来科学绘画的伟大传统的同时，利用现代尖端技术获得分子世界的准确数据，将这些新科学、新技术所揭示的自然存在一一展现在科学家和普罗大众面前。他的著作包括《The Machinery of Life》《Our Molecular Nature》《Bionanotechnology: Lesson from Nature》等。

What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a...(展开全部)