She investigates missing persons - now she is one. Private investigator Jessica Shaw is used to getting anonymous tips. But after receiving a photo of a three-year-old kidnapped from Los Angeles twenty-five years ago, Jessica is stunned to recognize the little girl as herself. Eager for answers, Jessica heads to LA’s dark underbelly. When she learns that her biological mother w...(展开全部)

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fi...(展开全部)

A.M.吉布斯是悉尼麦考瑞大学的英语荣誉教授，同时也是澳大利亚人文学院的一名成员。他先后毕业于墨尔本大学和牛津大学，是罗氏研究生奖学金的获得者，以及莫德林学院的成员之一。他在斯特林和利兹的阿德莱德大学担任讲师，接着又在新南威尔士的纽卡斯尔大学，以及后来的麦考瑞大学担任教授。他是世界上首屈一指的萧伯纳权威，他发表了诸多关于萧伯纳的书籍和文章，并且是国际萧伯纳社团协会的创始人之一。他出版的主要作品包括：《威廉•达文南特爵士：短诗以及戏剧与假面剧中的歌曲》（Sir William Davenant: The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques）； 《萧伯纳的艺术与思想：批评文章》（The Art and Mind of Shaw: Essays in Criticism）；《萧伯纳：访谈与...(展开全部)

凯芮•妮•道欷缇生于北爱尔兰的德里，当时是北爱问题的高峰期，她在一幢斑驳破旧的老房子里长大，房子处在城镇最混乱的地带。但对她和其他许多家庭而言，那里并没有什么平静的地带。她父母中的一方是天主教徒，另一方则是新教徒。在一年中他们两次被赶出家门，而在她11岁的时候一枚自制的汽油炸弹从她卧室的窗口被扔了进来。恐怖主义者充斥着城市的每一个角落，而对像凯芮家这样身处那身份裂缝中的家庭而言，更是无处可逃。 在《稀薄之地》这部揉合回忆录、历史及自然的作品中，凯芮将带读者探索大自然是如何让她保持神智清晰、帮助她从伤痛中痊愈，我们也可以在她的故事里看见兼具暴力与贫穷、希望与美的环境中，也能看见有时人们试图建立并稳住自己的城墙，却又允许恐惧和暴力在里头再次肆虐。凯芮让我们通过语言和学习重新构建了我们所生活其中的图景，并让我们记住我们不断斗争的土地不仅仅是地图上的线条和住...(展开全部)

Was it fate that put Krakauer—at once a crack climber, a seasoned journalist, and a sensitive conscience—on the world's highest mountain during that notorious 1996 season? Unpredictable weather, human folly, and a mind-set committed to client satisfaction killed 12 people on Everest that year, while the whole world watched. Krakauer showed us what it really meant: the traffic j...(展开全部)

Was it fate that put Krakauer—at once a crack climber, a seasoned journalist, and a sensitive conscience—on the world's highest mountain during that notorious 1996 season? Unpredictable weather, human folly, and a mind-set committed to client satisfaction killed 12 people on Everest that year, while the whole world watched. Krakauer showed us what it really meant: the traffic j...(展开全部)

The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss’s understanding of man and society in terms of individuals—kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.

卡尔·奥韦·克瑙斯高（Karl Ove Knausgård） 1968年生于挪威奥斯陆。1998年以首部小说《出离世界》（Ute av verden）获得挪威文学评论奖，2004年第二部小说《万物皆有时》（En tid for alt）又获得北欧文学奖。2009年至2011年间，克瑙斯高出版了六卷本自传小说《我的奋斗》（Min Kamp），获得挪威最高文学奖项布拉哥文学奖。在挪威，每十个人就有一人读过《我的奋斗》。知名作家莉迪亚·戴维斯、扎迪·史密斯、杰弗里·尤金尼德斯、乔纳森·勒瑟姆等也表示读《我的奋斗》成瘾，迫不及待地一本接一本读下去。2015年9月，克瑙斯高获得德国《世界报》文学奖（Welt-Literaturpreis，2014年得主是村上春树）。另著有随笔集《在秋天》（Om høsten，2015年）。 译者简介 林后，生于成都，长在重庆，...(展开全部)

The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss’s understanding of man and society in terms of individuals—kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.