玛格丽特·杜拉斯（Marguerite Duras, 1914-1996），法国当代最著名的女小说家、剧作家和电影艺术家。她于1914年4月4日出生在越南嘉定，父母都是小学教师。四岁时丧父，童年的苦难和母亲的悲惨命运影响了她的一生。 杜拉斯以小说《厚颜无耻之辈》（1943）开始她的文学生涯。她的作品不仅内容丰富，体裁多样，而且尤其注重文体，具有新颖独特的风格。早期小说《抵挡太平洋的堤坝》（1950）充分反映了童年时代的贫困生活，还有不少作品也是以印度支那的社会现实为题材的。《直布罗陀海峡的水手》（1952）等作品充满了镜头般的画面和口语式的对话，因此不少都被改编成影片；后来的小说如《塔尔奎尼亚的小马》（1953），《琴声如诉》（1958），《洛尔·V.斯坦的迷醉》（1964）等则善于打破传统的叙述模式，把虚构与现实融为一体，因而使她一度被认为是新小说...(展开全部)

玛格丽特·杜拉斯（Marguerite Duras, 1914-1996），法国当代最著名的女小说家、剧作家和电影艺术家。她于1914年4月4日出生在越南嘉定，父母都是小学教师。四岁时丧父，童年的苦难和母亲的悲惨命运影响了她的一生。 杜拉斯以小说《厚颜无耻之辈》（1943）开始她的文学生涯。她的作品不仅内容丰富，体裁多样，而且尤其注重文体，具有新颖独特的风格。早期小说《抵挡太平洋的堤坝》（1950）充分反映了童年时代的贫困生活，还有不少作品也是以印度支那的社会现实为题材的。《直布罗陀海峡的水手》（1952）等作品充满了镜头般的画面和口语式的对话，因此不少都被改编成影片；后来的小说如《塔尔奎尼亚的小马》（1953），《琴声如诉》（1958），《洛尔·V.斯坦的迷醉》（1964）等则善于打破传统的叙述模式，把虚构与现实融为一体，因而使她一度被认为是新小说...(展开全部)

Twelve visions of the future―by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant―from new and established voices in science fiction. In this book, new and established voices in science fiction come together to offer original stories of the future. Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that hijacks our empathy; Elizabeth Bear shows us a smart home tricked into kidnapping its owner; ...(展开全部)

From the New York Times bestselling author of The New Revelations and Conversations with God comes a galvanizing vision of spirituality unlike anything you've experienced before.... Humanity is about to create a new form of spirituality on earth. Neale Donald Walsch believes that this New Spirituality will allow humans to express their natural impulse toward the Divine wi...(展开全部)

Tomorrow's Lawyers predicts fundamental and irreversible changes in the world of law. For Richard Susskind, best-selling author of The End of Lawyers?, the future of legal service will be neither Grisham nor Rumpole. Instead, it will be a world of virtual courts, Internet-based global legal businesses, online document production, commoditized service, legal process outsourcing...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly From "Soccer Moms," the legendary swing voters of the mid-1990s, to "Late-Breaking Gays" such as former Gov. Games McGreevey (out at age 47), Burson-Marsteller CEO (and campaign adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton) Penn delves into the ever-splintering societal subsets with which Americans are increasingly identifying, and what they mean. For instance, becaus...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly From "Soccer Moms," the legendary swing voters of the mid-1990s, to "Late-Breaking Gays" such as former Gov. Games McGreevey (out at age 47), Burson-Marsteller CEO (and campaign adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton) Penn delves into the ever-splintering societal subsets with which Americans are increasingly identifying, and what they mean. For instance, becaus...(展开全部)

In modern agricultural politics, organic farming and genetic engineering occupy opposite ends of the spectrum. In the Ronald-Adamchak household, the world is not so black and white. Ronald is a professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis. Adamchak manages the student-run organic farm on campus. Together, they're exploring the juncture where their met...(展开全部)

Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take the reader inside their lives for roughly a year, allowing us to look over ...(展开全部)

Written as part memoir, part instruction, and part contemplation, Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, welcome us int...(展开全部)