“You should be here; he’s simply magnificent.” These are the final words a biologist hears before his wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the Kaiju (Japan’s giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. “The Return to Monsterland” opens Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, a collection of twelve fabuli...(展开全部)

Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. "A combination of the mystical, magical, and marvelous, Sequoia Nagamatsu weaves a collection of bold, hysterical, and moving tales into an unforgettable debut. From shape- shifters, to star-makers, to babies made of snow, the characters in WHERE WE GO WHEN ALL WE WERE IS GONE form a community of longing, of the surreal, of wonder. What ...(展开全部)

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the ...(展开全部)

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the ...(展开全部)

保罗·比亚克 （Paul Babiak） 工业与组织心理学家，兼HRbackoffice公司的总裁——这是一家教练与咨询公司，尤其擅长管理发展与继任计划领域。他的作品经常刊登在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》和《哈佛商业评论》上。 罗伯特·黑尔（Robert D.Hare） 黑尔博士是当代病态人格研究之父，心理变态领域世界公认的顶尖专家之一，不列颠哥伦比亚大学的心理学教授。他编制了“心理变态核查表”，它随即作为一种标准工具，迅速被世界各地的研究者和治疗师广泛采用。他的著作和学术论文对整个世界产生了巨大的影响。

石黑一雄，日裔英国小说家，1954年生于日本长崎，与奈保尔、拉什迪并称为“英国文坛移民三雄”。石黑一雄的作品并不多，但几乎每部作品都获得重要的文学奖项：《远山淡影》获温尼弗雷德•霍尔比纪念奖，《浮世画家》获惠特布莱德年度最佳小说奖，《长日将尽》获布克奖，《无可慰藉》获切尔特纳姆文学艺术奖，《浮世画家》《我辈孤雏》和《莫失莫忘》均入围布克奖决选名单；1995年英女王授予石黑一雄文学领域的大英帝国勋章，1998年获法国文学艺术骑士勋章，2017年因“以其巨大的情感力量，发掘了隐藏在我们与世界的虚幻联系之下的深渊”而获诺贝尔文学奖。

The remarkable story of the scientific revolution that made the new economy possible-software-told through the unsung heroes of programming and their achievements. In the 1950s, just before John Backus's team developed the Fortran language that revolutionized the first generation of programming, it took dozens of full-time programmers and operators to run and debug each of t...(展开全部)

Is it impossible to let go -- despite the pain? - Do you yearn for someone who is not physically or emotionally available to you?- Do you believe that if you love him enough he will have to love you?- When you feel insecure, does it drive you only to want her more?- Do you find yourself phoning repeatedly or waiting long hours for the phone to ring? Do you wish someone would le...(展开全部)

Is it impossible to let go -- despite the pain? - Do you yearn for someone who is not physically or emotionally available to you?- Do you believe that if you love him enough he will have to love you?- When you feel insecure, does it drive you only to want her more?- Do you find yourself phoning repeatedly or waiting long hours for the phone to ring? Do you wish someone would le...(展开全部)