Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from h...(展开全部)

Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon. “A charmer...satisfyingly quirky.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Books to Breeze Through This Summer” "This wacky, charming novel...draws you in with humor, then turns out to contain both a suspenseful subplot and a sweet romance….Hilarious and moving."—People No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be bet...(展开全部)

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from h...(展开全部)

Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon. “A charmer...satisfyingly quirky.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Books to Breeze Through This Summer” "This wacky, charming novel...draws you in with humor, then turns out to contain both a suspenseful subplot and a sweet romance….Hilarious and moving."—People No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be bet...(展开全部)

The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay, a startlingly original interpretation of Proust. By way of Neo-platonism, Buddhism, and the work of Melanie Klein, Sedgwick establishes the sense of refreshmen...(展开全部)

For over three decades, the great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: ...(展开全部)

雷·库兹韦尔他曾发明了盲人阅读机、音乐合成器和语音识别系统。为此他获得许多奖项：狄克森奖、卡耐基梅隆科学奖。1988年，麻省理工学院提名他为“当年杰出发明家“。他曾获9项名誉博士学位，2次总统荣誉奖。库兹韦尔也是一名成功的企业家，他用他的发明创办了自己的企业，开发出多项造福人类的高科技产品。库兹韦尔是多部畅销书的作者。他1990年出版的《智能机器的时代》成功地预言了电脑将在1998年战胜棋王，该书获得了美国出版协会“最优秀的计算机科学著作”奖。 库兹韦尔现任奇点大学校长。

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines , he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and mac...(展开全部)

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines , he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and mac...(展开全部)

雷·库兹韦尔他曾发明了盲人阅读机、音乐合成器和语音识别系统。为此他获得许多奖项：狄克森奖、卡耐基梅隆科学奖。1988年，麻省理工学院提名他为“当年杰出发明家“。他曾获9项名誉博士学位，2次总统荣誉奖。库兹韦尔也是一名成功的企业家，他用他的发明创办了自己的企业，开发出多项造福人类的高科技产品。库兹韦尔是多部畅销书的作者。他1990年出版的《智能机器的时代》成功地预言了电脑将在1998年战胜棋王，该书获得了美国出版协会“最优秀的计算机科学著作”奖。 库兹韦尔现任奇点大学校长。