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丹尼斯•勒翰，1966年生于美国，八岁便立志成为专职作家。在获得文学学士和硕士学位后，做过心理咨询师、侍者、代客停车小弟、礼车司机、卡车司机、书店店员等。 1994年以小说《战前酒》出道，创造了冷硬男女私探搭档“帕特里克／安琪”系列。黑色幽默的对白；家庭、暴力、童年创伤的题材引起读者极大反响，五年内拿下美国推理界夏姆斯、安东尼、贝瑞、戴利斯奖等多项大奖，外销十余国版权，并以此系列在北美写下130万、全球240万册的销售成绩。 译者 尤传莉，译有《图书馆的故事》《达•芬奇密码》《天使与魔鬼》《隔离岛》《雨的祈祷》《杀人排行榜》《依然美丽》《骗子的游戏》等。

斯蒂芬·温伯格 诺贝尔物理学奖得主，曾获美国国家科学奖章、刘易斯•托马斯奖等多项殊荣。曾任得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校教授，并兼任美国国家科学院院士、伦敦皇家学会外籍会员、美国哲学学会会员等。 温伯格出版了多部影响力很大的理论物理教材。在专业领域之外，他致力于将科学理念与人文知识相结合，著有《最初三分钟》《终极理论之梦》《仰望苍穹》等书。

Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view of the work as a whole. His methodological starting-point is to see Wittgenstein's work as a response to Frege'...(展开全部)

Through a continuous and deliberate juxtaposition of materials from Europe and Melanesia, Andrew J. Strathern shows that, from one viewpoint, the ways in which the life-worlds of other cultures have been portrayed have inevitably been influenced by European categories of understanding; while, from another viewpoint, there are indeed similarities between, e.g., the humoral medic...(展开全部)

The Art of Heikala: Works and Thoughts is the first major publication by popular Finnish illustrator Heikala. Heikala’s artwork combines traditional watercolor painting and inks with a fresh, enchanting approach - fans love her charming characters and scenes that are largely influenced by Finnish and Japanese cultures. This combined with her in-depth sharing of her processes an...(展开全部)

In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today's image-saturated culture. Emphasizing our corporeal rather than our intellectual engagements with film and other media, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visua...(展开全部)

Thoughts is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo which together constitute a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind. Yablo offers penetrating discussions of such topics as the relation between the mental and the physical, mental causation, the possibility of disembodied existence, the relation between conceivability and possibility, var...(展开全部)

Synopsis This is a breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of "The Alchemist", offers his personal reflections on a wide range of subjects from archery and music to elegance, travelling and the nature of good and evil. An old woman explai...(展开全部)

Some Thoughts concerning Education, originally published in 1693, is one of John Locke's major works, the culmination of a decade's writings on the subject. It mainly concerns moral education and its role in creating a responsible adult, and the importance of virtue as a transmitter of culture. But Locke ranges also over such practical topics as the effectiveness of physical pu...(展开全部)