Why We Can’t Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman’s midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be. Tabitha Carvan was a new mother, at home with two young children, when she fell for the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. You know the guy: strange name, alien f...(展开全部)

安娜·韦尔特曼是一名来自美国加利福尼亚州的教师，她一直满怀热情地给孩子们教授数学知识，讲解数学如何构成我们周围世界的一部分，说明数学如何在音乐和美术中呈现出来。安娜除了喜欢与别人分享自己对数学的热爱，还喜欢美术、手工、烹饪和作曲。

安娜·韦尔特曼是一名来自美国加利福尼亚州的教师，她一直满怀热情地给孩子们教授数学知识，讲解数学如何构成我们周围世界的一部分，说明数学如何在音乐和美术中呈现出来。安娜除了喜欢与别人分享自己对数学的热爱，还喜欢美术、手工、烹饪和作曲。

What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the...(展开全部)

Since her debut in 1989, A. M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years. This Book Will Save Your Life is a v...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description Richard Novak is a modern-day Everyman, a middle-aged divorce trading stocks out of his home in the surreal promised land of Los Angeles. Having done such a good job getting his life under control, he now needs no one - except his trainer, nutritionist, and housekeeper. He is functionally dead and doesn't even notice until two incidents - an attack of...(展开全部)

A.M.赫美斯， 美国当代女小说家，现居伦敦，是格兰塔旗下文学女神，备受媒体盛赞的代表作家，也是她这一代最具大胆创新精神的文坛新声音。著有短篇小说集《你应该知道的所有事》《物的安全》、长篇小说《折磨人的音乐》《爱丽丝的终结》《在一个母亲的国家》《杰克》和回忆录《杰克的女儿》。她同时也是美国著名生活类杂志《名利场》的特约编辑。

在线阅读本书 In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between musicits performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy itand the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals: How composers produce som...(展开全部)

A fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind—and the role of melodies in shaping our lives Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emergin...(展开全部)