A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday item...(展开全部)

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelf...(展开全部)

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End.

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelf...(展开全部)

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End.

安东尼·伯克莱（1893－1971） 推理小说史上的先知。1922年，他开始创作高水准的古典推理小说，并一手创建了著名的“侦探俱乐部”。在古典推理大行其道之时，伯克莱反而预测：“纯粹以解谜为主，重视情节却忽略人物塑造、缺乏文风和幽默感的传统推理小说时日不多。未来的推理小说，心理成分在吸引读者方面将超过数学成分。”而今，这一预言自是全部命中。1939年，伯克莱宣布停止推理小说的创作，但依然活跃于评论界，直至1971年去世。

安东尼·伯克莱（1893－1971） 推理小说史上的先知。1922年，他开始创作高水准的古典推理小说，并一手创建了著名的“侦探俱乐部”。在古典推理大行其道之时，伯克莱反而预测：“纯粹以解谜为主，重视情节却忽略人物塑造、缺乏文风和幽默感的传统推理小说时日不多。未来的推理小说，心理成分在吸引读者方面将超过数学成分。”而今，这一预言自是全部命中。1939年，伯克莱宣布停止推理小说的创作，但依然活跃于评论界，直至1971年去世。

安东尼·伯克莱（1893－1971） 推理小说史上的先知。1922年，他开始创作高水准的古典推理小说，并一手创建了著名的“侦探俱乐部”。在古典推理大行其道之时，伯克莱反而预测：“纯粹以解谜为主，重视情节却忽略人物塑造、缺乏文风和幽默感的传统推理小说时日不多。未来的推理小说，心理成分在吸引读者方面将超过数学成分。”而今，这一预言自是全部命中。1939年，伯克莱宣布停止推理小说的创作，但依然活跃于评论界，直至1971年去世。

安东尼·伯克莱（1893－1971） 推理小说史上的先知。1922年，他开始创作高水准的古典推理小说，并一手创建了著名的“侦探俱乐部”。在古典推理大行其道之时，伯克莱反而预测：“纯粹以解谜为主，重视情节却忽略人物塑造、缺乏文风和幽默感的传统推理小说时日不多。未来的推理小说，心理成分在吸引读者方面将超过数学成分。”而今，这一预言自是全部命中。1939年，伯克莱宣布停止推理小说的创作，但依然活跃于评论界，直至1971年去世。

Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond Geuss challenges this assumpti...(展开全部)