Technology never works well the first time. Or even the second. Army veteran John Reiff is living proof. John is revived in the back of a dilapidated ambulance, on the run from a shadowy organization that is desperate to take him back. He is the first one, their archetype, and they need to know what happened after his escape. What is happening to his body and his mind. And they...(展开全部)

In What Makes Civilization?, archaeologist David Wengrow provides a vivid new account of the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (today's Iraq). These two regions, where many foundations of modern life were laid, are usually treated in isolation. Now, they are brought together within a unified history of how people first created cities, kingdoms, and monume...(展开全部)

W.奥拉夫·斯塔普雷顿（1886—1950），英国科幻小说大师、哲学家，以创作宏大、奇异的幻想文学作品而著称，2014年入选“科幻奇幻名人堂”。主要作品包括《最后与最初的人》（1930）、《奇怪的约翰》（1936）、《造星主》（1937）和《天狼星》（1944）等。作为现代幻想小说的先驱和杰出代表，斯塔普雷顿不仅深刻影响了阿瑟·克拉克、斯坦尼斯拉夫·莱姆等科幻小说大师的创作，也受到博尔赫斯、多丽丝·莱辛等文学大师的一致推崇。

An immediate success, it became an acknowledged watershed in Brazilian literature, catapulting it into the literary arena of European modernism.

Clarice Lispector's sensational， prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana， from her wild， creative childhood， as the 'little egg' who writes poems for her father， through her marriage to the faithless Otávio and on to her decision to make her own way in ...(展开全部)

An immediate success, it became an acknowledged watershed in Brazilian literature, catapulting it into the literary arena of European modernism.

Clarice Lispector's sensational， prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana， from her wild， creative childhood， as the 'little egg' who writes poems for her father， through her marriage to the faithless Otávio and on to her decision to make her own way in ...(展开全部)