The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener―stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial―left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she...(展开全部)

The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener―stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial―left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she...(展开全部)

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A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others—and how and why we do it. “I wouldn’t have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who’s just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it.” So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statem...(展开全部)

A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others—and how and why we do it. “I wouldn’t have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who’s just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it.” So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statem...(展开全部)

Nine Stories is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.) The storie...(展开全部)

A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; and a shy dreamer makes a deal with the Devil. In these sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy, Nabokov displays an astonishing range of inventiveness, with dazzling sleight of hand, fantastica...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had th...(展开全部)

In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchan...(展开全部)

威廉•特雷弗 （1928－2016） 爱尔兰当代文学大师，被《纽约客》誉为“当代英语世界最伟大的短篇小说家”。出生于爱尔兰科克郡米切尔斯敦一个中产阶级新教家庭，在外省度过童年时代，后到都柏林圣三一学院历史系求学，毕业后先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案。从一九五四年起，和妻子移居英国。 自一九五八年出版第一部长篇小说《行为标准》以来，已创作近二十部中长篇小说、数百篇短篇小说，还著有多部戏剧剧本、童书及散文集。先后三次获得英国惠特布雷德图书奖，五次入围布克奖，一度是诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选。二○○二年，英国女王伊丽莎白二世授予骑士爵位。二○○八年，获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖。 二○一六年十一月，病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。