Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer continues his "wildly though- provoking" science fiction saga of a sentient World Wide Web. Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH-the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the Unite...(展开全部)

Caitlen Decter could never have anticipated what was coming when she first sensed a strange presence on the internet Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended blind mathematics genius Caitlin Decter and has grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH - the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any th...(展开全部)

Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, them ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the most current and accurate version available of Oates' seminal work.          A novel ab...(展开全部)

乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨（Joyce Carol Oates,1938— ）　1938年6月16日出生在纽约州洛克波特市附近伊利县一个工人家庭，从小寄养在务农的外祖父家，在只有一间教室的学校里上学，过着“非常悲惨的日子”。直到高中时，进布法罗市郊一中学学习，才受到较为正规的教育，并开始爱好文学。1956年，奥茨考入纽约州的锡拉丘兹大学，主修英国文学。期间开始学习写作，曾获得女大学生小说创作比赛一等奖。1960年，她以第一名的成绩毕业于锡拉丘兹大学，一年后，获得威斯康星大学文学硕士学位。1962年入底特律大学任教并进行创作。1967年移居加拿大，1978年回国，当选为美国文学艺术院院士，此后即在普林斯顿大学任驻校作家、客座教授，讲授文学创作。奥茨是一位多产作家，自1963年第一部短篇小说集《北门畔》问世以来，迄今已出版长篇小说28部，短篇小说集17部，诗...(展开全部)

When it comes to viewing art, living in the information age is not necessarily a benefit. So argues Michael Findlay in this book that encourages a new way of looking at art. Much of this thinking involves stripping away what we have been taught and instead trusting our own instincts, opinions, and reactions. Including reproductions of works by Mark Rothko, Paul Klee, Joan Miró,...(展开全部)

Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer continues his "wildly though- provoking" science fiction saga of a sentient World Wide Web. Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH-the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the Unite...(展开全部)

The Night Watch series has caused a sensation never before seen in Russia -- its popularity is frenzied and unprecedented, and driven by a truly great, epic story. In 2005 Fox Searchlight announced it had acquired the Russian film adaptation for an American release. Interest in the books here is now set to reach a fever pitch. Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a ...(展开全部)

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.' For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last, the f...(展开全部)

费正清（John King Fairbank）是世界上最负声望的中国问题观察家。在第二次世界大战期间，他曾在中国研读、旅行、教学。1955-1973年费正清担任哈佛大学东亚研究中心主任，并担任哈佛的希根森（Francis Lee Higginson）历史讲座教席。直至他逝世前（1991年），他领导着美国的中国问题的学术研究。当今美国诸多有影响的中国问题专家皆出于其门下。在中美正式建立外交关系前夕，两国高层领导人案头摆放的就是他的《美国与中国》。 费正清的主要著作有：《美国与中国》（The United States and China），《伟大的中国革命（1800-1985年）》（The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985)、《观察中国》（China Watch）及《中国：传统与变迁》（China:Tradition...(展开全部)

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.' For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last, the f...(展开全部)