Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is an ambitious novel. Genetics, eugenics, gender, race, class and history are the book's themes but Zadie Smith is gifted with the wit and inventiveness to make these weighty ideas seem effortlessly light. The story travels through Jamaica, Turkey, Bangladesh and India but ends up in a scrubby North London borough, home of th...(展开全部)

Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is an ambitious novel. Genetics, eugenics, gender, race, class and history are the book's themes but Zadie Smith is gifted with the wit and inventiveness to make these weighty ideas seem effortlessly light. The story travels through Jamaica, Turkey, Bangladesh and India but ends up in a scrubby North London borough, home of th...(展开全部)

An aging ruler, an oppressive police state, a restless polarized people seething with paranoia: it’s a dangerous time for poets. Two of them—the great Kit Marlowe and the up-and-comer Will Shakespeare—meet in the back room of a pub to collaborate on a history play cycle, navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime, and flirt like young men with everything to lose. On...(展开全部)

埃勒里·奎因（ElleryQueen），推理小说史上一个非凡的名字，实指弗雷德里克·丹奈（FredericDannay，1905—1982）和曼弗里德·李（ManfredLee，1905—1971）这对表兄弟作家。他们的创作时间长达半个世纪，作品多达数十部，全球销量约计两亿册；他们曾五获埃德加·爱伦·坡奖；他们的四部“悲剧系列”和九部“国名系列”作品被公认为推理小说史上难以逾越的佳作；他们于1941年创办的《埃勒里·奎因神秘杂志》（EQMM）成为劳伦斯·布洛克、迈克尔·康柰利等推理大家起飞的平台，迄今仍是最专业、最权威的推理文学杂志之一；他们出资设立“密室研讨小组”，定期与约翰·狄克森·卡尔、克雷顿·劳森等推理大师交流、切磋……他们成就的不仅仅是自己，更为成就推理小说的黄金时代书写了浓墨重彩。

迈克尔·克莱顿（1942—2008） Michael Crichton 作家、编剧、导演。他是“科幻惊悚小说之父”，《侏罗纪公园》系列电影和美剧《西部世界》的原作者。曾在哈佛学院学文学，转系后获得人类学学士学位，后毕业于哈佛医学院。1992 年被《人物》杂志评选为“世界极富魅力的50 人”之一。 他早年的研究为他积累了人类学、医学、生物学和神经学领域的渊博知识，为他日后的文学创作奠定了坚实的基础。20世纪90 年代他的作品《侏罗纪公园》被好莱坞导演斯蒂芬? 斯皮尔伯格搬上银幕，之后成为家喻户晓的经典电影。他自己导演的《西部世界》，上映时万人空巷，成为科幻电影里程碑式作品。2016 年，这部影片被改编为同名美剧《西部世界》，包揽包括艾美奖在内的26 个大奖。他还是曾获艾美奖的电视连续剧《急诊室的故事》的编剧与制片人。 克莱顿一生创作了多部小说，作品被译...(展开全部)

"White" is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of "White," which he sees as being closely related to the origin of Japanese aesthetics a " symbolizing simplicity and subtlety. The central concepts discussed by Kenya Hara in this publication are emptiness and the absolute void. Kenya Hara also sees his work as a designer as a form of...(展开全部)

"White" is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of "White," which he sees as being closely related to the origin of Japanese aesthetics a " symbolizing simplicity and subtlety. The central concepts discussed by Kenya Hara in this publication are emptiness and the absolute void. Kenya Hara also sees his work as a designer as a form of...(展开全部)

Brother turns on brother. The throne of England is at stake. The deadly Wars of the Roses have begun. . . . They ruled England before the Tudors, and now internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings the Plantagenets to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women. Elizabeth Woodville, a woman of extraordinary beau...(展开全部)

Brother turns on brother. The throne of England is at stake. The deadly Wars of the Roses have begun. . . . They ruled England before the Tudors, and now internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings the Plantagenets to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women. Elizabeth Woodville, a woman of extraordinary beau...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•塞耶（James Thayer），畅销小说排行榜的常客。他曾在华盛顿州立大学和芝加哥大学法学院就读，成绩优异，还是华盛顿州律师协会的成员，专业训练与职业经历都为写作奠定了良好基础。 这位被《纽约时报》书评评价为“写得流畅清晰，没有任何冗言”的作家，自处女作《赫斯隘口》一举成名后佳作不断，至今已有12本书问世，除《白星》外均为带有浪漫色彩的间谍小说。