胡安·何塞·米利亚斯 Juan José Millás 西班牙当代小说家、记者和专栏作家。 一九四六年生于西班牙瓦伦西亚，作品常见于西班牙各报章媒体，目前是西班牙第一大报《 报》专栏作家。一九八三年以青少年小说《浸湿的纸》扬名文坛，书评给予极高肯定，并成为西班牙教育部指定的中学生读物。一九九○年以《这就是孤独》获得极受推崇的“纳达尔文学奖”，本书已被译介成英、法、德等多国语言，米利亚斯也以此书跃上 文坛。目前已创作二十多部小说，包括一九八六年《在你的名字里失序》、一九九○年《回家》、一九九八年《按照字母顺序》等，二○○二年则以《两个女子，在布拉格》获颁 “春天小说奖”。他的短篇小说亦颇获好评，一九九二年出版《寡妇的另一个春天》，一九九四年出版的《她的想象……》曾被改编成舞台剧，在西班牙及拉丁美洲各地巡演。

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full...(展开全部)

This is a collection of the best predictions made by "Popular Mechanics" writers between 1903 and 1969. It features original, visually stunning artwork & a free poster. Each chapter is introduced by astrophysics professor and former NASA advisor Gregory Benford. Between 1903 and 1969, scientists and other experts made hundreds of predictions in "Popular Mechanics" about what th...(展开全部)

What, if anything, do the most spectacular, high-performance periods of the twentieth-century stock market have in common? And most importantly: Can we predict when they will occur again?In this fascinating investigation, acclaimed author and financial authority Martin S. Fridson probes the past, leading an exhilarating tour through each of the twentieth-century stock market's ...(展开全部)

Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon is considered the towering figure of modern Hebrew literature. With this collection of stories, reissued in paperback and expanded to include additional Agnon classics, the English-speaking audience has, at long last, access to the rich and brilliantly multifaceted fictional world of one of the greatest writers of the last century. This broad selection...(展开全部)

Synopsis A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, How Late It Was, How Late opens one Sunday morning in Glasgow, Scotland, as Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting, awakens in a lane and tries to remember the two-day drinking binge that landed him there. Then, things only get worse. Sammy gets in a fight with some soldiers, lands in jail, and ...(展开全部)

Synopsis A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, How Late It Was, How Late opens one Sunday morning in Glasgow, Scotland, as Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting, awakens in a lane and tries to remember the two-day drinking binge that landed him there. Then, things only get worse. Sammy gets in a fight with some soldiers, lands in jail, and ...(展开全部)

Great writing isn’t born, it’s built—sentence by sentence. But too many writers—and writing guides—overlook this most important unit. The result? Manuscripts that will never be published and writing careers that will never begin. In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great—and oth...(展开全部)

The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet — from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both. Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sin...(展开全部)

秋风送来的不是丰收，而是永无止尽的寒冬 慢节奏末世对话小说，作者最为认真构思的项目之一，不喜勿喷