The young man and woman ordered a basin each of the mixture, steaming hot, and sat down to consume it at leisure. This was very well so far, for furmity, as the woman had said, was nourishing, and as proper a food as could be obtained within the four seas; though, to those not accustomed to it, the grains of wheat swollen as large as lemon-pips, which floated on its surface, mi...(展开全部)

What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a statement of the "hard problem" of consciousness...(展开全部)

The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one a 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of humanity. Narrated by a child - from the age of two and a half up until her third birthday - this novel reveals that the move from deity to ordinary member of the human race can be a very difficult thing indeed from whic...(展开全部)

What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions and many others. Starting with a statement of the "hard problem" of consciousness...(展开全部)

The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one a 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of humanity. Narrated by a child - from the age of two and a half up until her third birthday - this novel reveals that the move from deity to ordinary member of the human race can be a very difficult thing indeed from whic...(展开全部)

In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not "how clever we are to have found it out, but . . . how clever...(展开全部)

In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not "how clever we are to have found it out, but . . . how clever...(展开全部)

◆ 普利策奖得主 ◆ 美国国家事务最佳新闻解说奖得主 ◆《华盛顿邮报》首席记者兼特别调查队成员 乔比•沃里克钻研国家安全事务已有16 年，曾因报道了一系列有关政治和环境污染的问题而荣获普利策奖，后又因报道国际核扩散威胁的消息而荣获美国国家事务最佳新闻解说奖。 《三重间谍》是其对“中情局霍斯特血案”进行了一年多的调查，在查看了大量官方文件和全部的现场录像，走访了众多罹难特工的家属及生还涉事人员的基础上创作的纪实性军事小说。《三重间谍》甫一出版，立刻成为超级畅销书，引起众多政府官员的重视，称本书“真实地反映了反恐历程的跌宕起伏与险象环生” 重磅推荐 马鼎盛 著名香港军事评论员 报刊资深军事专栏作家 乔比•沃里克的纪实小说《三重间谍》真实地反应了反恐战争的复杂、特殊和血腥。奥巴马竞选连任美国总统的一张王牌，是他消灭了本•拉登，报了“9•11”袭击的血海深仇...(展开全部)

A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who had infil...(展开全部)

Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of this century. While her novels masquerade as witty comedies of manners, set in the lavish country houses of the Anglo-Irish or in elegant London homes, they mine the depths of private tragedy with a subtle ferocity and psychological complexity reminiscent of Henry James.The Death of the Heart, a story o...(展开全部)