林伍德·巴克利，国际畅销小说家。 巴克利自幼便对侦探小说很感兴趣，从特伦特大学获得英语文学学位后，辗转至加拿大发行量第一的主流媒体《多伦多星报》，担任记者、编辑，并撰写幽默专栏，广受好评。 2007年，出版推理小说《无暇道别》，在全球迅速畅销百万册，获得亚瑟·埃利斯奖、巴瑞奖、国际惊悚作家协会最佳小说等多项大奖。巴克利一跃成为加拿大最成功的当代作家之一，此后便退休专职写作。 《目击症人》是巴克利的代表作之一，被评为《图书馆杂志》年度之书，《波士顿环球报》年度最佳犯罪小说，获美国巴瑞奖年度最佳小说提名。

林伍德·巴克利，国际畅销小说家。 巴克利自幼便对侦探小说很感兴趣，从特伦特大学获得英语文学学位后，辗转至加拿大发行量第一的主流媒体《多伦多星报》，担任记者、编辑，并撰写幽默专栏，广受好评。 2007年，出版推理小说《无暇道别》，在全球迅速畅销百万册，获得亚瑟·埃利斯奖、巴瑞奖、国际惊悚作家协会最佳小说等多项大奖。巴克利一跃成为加拿大最成功的当代作家之一，此后便退休专职写作。 《目击症人》是巴克利的代表作之一，被评为《图书馆杂志》年度之书，《波士顿环球报》年度最佳犯罪小说，获美国巴瑞奖年度最佳小说提名。

林伍德·巴克利，国际畅销小说家。 巴克利自幼便对侦探小说很感兴趣，从特伦特大学获得英语文学学位后，辗转至加拿大发行量第一的主流媒体《多伦多星报》，担任记者、编辑，并撰写幽默专栏，广受好评。 2007年，出版推理小说《无暇道别》，在全球迅速畅销百万册，获得亚瑟·埃利斯奖、巴瑞奖、国际惊悚作家协会最佳小说等多项大奖。巴克利一跃成为加拿大最成功的当代作家之一，此后便退休专职写作。 《目击症人》是巴克利的代表作之一，被评为《图书馆杂志》年度之书，《波士顿环球报》年度最佳犯罪小说，获美国巴瑞奖年度最佳小说提名。

Karl Pillemer is a professor of human development at Cornell University and Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College. An internationally renowned gerontologist, his research examines how people develop and change throughout their lives. He has authored five books and over 100 scientific publications, and speaks throughout the world on aging-rela...(展开全部)

'...visually stunning and mentally stimulating' - "Scientific American". 'the author of "What Painting Is" (1998) has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire us 'to learn to see anything.' It's a tall order, to be sure, but one that the author pulls off admirably!. "How to Use Your Eyes" is a wondrous visual tour that Elkins hopes wi...(展开全部)

I hope this book will inspire every reader to stop and consider things that are...so clearly meaningless that they never seemed worth a second thought.... Grass, the night sky, a postage stamp, a crack in the sidewalk, a shoulder. Ordinary objects of everyday life. But when we look at them--really look at them--what do we see? In the tradition of John Berger's bestselli...(展开全部)

From an award-winning chronicler of our nation’s history and its legends comes his much-anticipated novel about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. ...(展开全部)

Piotr Sztompka here presents a major work of social theory, which gives a comprehensive theoretical account of trust as a fundamental component of human actions. Professor Sztompka's detailed and systematic study takes account of the rich evolving research on trust, and provides conceptual and typological clarifications and explications of the notion itself, its meaning, founda...(展开全部)

From an award-winning chronicler of our nation’s history and its legends comes his much-anticipated novel about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. ...(展开全部)

The gaze of others is our gratification, and the measure of our inadequacy. We are willing to shift our whole lives to show only our best side, knowing full well our worst lurks nearby. Pietro and Teresa's love is tempestuous. After yet another argument, Teresa comes up with an idea: "tell me something you've never told anyone," she suggests, "tell me the thing you're most asha...(展开全部)