What exactly are the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the achi...(展开全部)

What exactly are the ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The ‘weird’ and the ‘eerie’ are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the achi...(展开全部)

[美] 迈克尔·西姆斯（Michael Sims） 现居美国，以写作非虚构作品著称。著有《阿波罗之火:地球上自然和想象的一天》和《图书馆杂志》评出的最佳科学读本《达尔文的交响乐团》。曾主编企鹅经典系列《阿奇和梅宝评注本》及《侠盗吕潘》。同时也是许多文学精选集的编者，其作品包括《煤气灯罪行的企鹅之书》《德古拉伯爵的访客》《死者之证》《幽灵马车》等。他的作品曾登载于《洛杉矶时报》《华盛顿邮报》《美国考古》《新政治家》《高等教育纪事报》等多家期刊杂志，他还是广播电台的常客。另外，西姆斯还是呼吁人类与大自然和谐共处的发言人，广受赞誉。

An illuminating and entertaining history of the law's treatment of animals Trespassing bees, murderous zebras, reasonable cows ... Ever since Biblical times, animals have been clashing with human laws. What to do with animals that injure or kill people, in particular, has long troubled humans. In medieval Europe, 'killer' animals - horses, cattle and most often pigs, which were...(展开全部)

In a deepening of the thinking begun in The Myth of Analysis and Re-Visioning Psychology , James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams since Freud and Jung.

Previously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism , The Old, Weird America is Greil Marcus's widely acclaimed book on the secret music (the so-called "Basement Tapes") made by Bob Dylan and the Band while in seclusion in Woodstock, New York, in 1967--a folksy yet funky, furious yet hilarious music that remains...(展开全部)

As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. In 2005 he was finally elevated from pulp status to the classical literary canon with the release of a Li...(展开全部)

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses the science of simplicity and complexity, describing the intricate interrelationships that exist in nature between the simple (a quark in an atom) and the complex (the jaguar prowling its jungle environment). 25,000 first printing.

From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers, and other complex adaptive systems. Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann offers a uniquely personal and unifying vision of the relationship between the ...(展开全部)