John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Si...(展开全部)

P. D. 詹姆斯（P. D. James, 1920—2014） 英国作家，被誉为“当代推理小说女王”，推理小说界两大至高终生成就奖——“钻石匕首奖”“大师奖”得主，也是继柯南•道尔、阿加莎•克里斯蒂之后，第三位被请进“世界推理小说名人堂”的作家。 P.D.詹姆斯的作品在推理性和文学性上都成就非凡：她前半生任职于医院、警局、刑法部门，积累了丰富素材；她拥有伦敦大学等八所高校的荣誉博士学位，曾担任英国作家协会会长，文学观深刻独到。 P.D.詹姆斯早年在刑法部门负责青少年犯罪案件，《无辜之血》深受这段经历的影响，以一个“寻母悲剧”探讨了血缘、救赎、自我认知的深刻主题。1980年，本书惊艳美国文坛，P.D.詹姆斯自此风靡大西洋彼岸，成为举世闻名的“推理女王”。

Innocent Blood (1980) is a crime novel by English writer P. D. James. Unlike her Adam Dalgliesh mysteries it is not a detective story but closer to a psychological thriller and was the first of James' novels to step outside the detective genre. (She had published a non-fiction account of a real crime, The Maul and the Pear Tree, in 1971.) It follows the story of a young woman s...(展开全部)

A gripping new novel from international bestseller Harlan Coben, author of the New York Times bestsellers Just One Look, No Second Chance, Gone for Good, and Tell No One.

Lee Alexander McQueen (1969–2010), whose design combined visionary aesthetics, emotional power, and extraordinary craft, was known for staging provocative shows that were as much performances as venues to display his couture creations. Charged with energy, informed by history and culture, and filled with fresh concepts, McQueen's shows have become legends not only of fashion bu...(展开全部)

Lee Alexander McQueen (1969–2010), whose design combined visionary aesthetics, emotional power, and extraordinary craft, was known for staging provocative shows that were as much performances as venues to display his couture creations. Charged with energy, informed by history and culture, and filled with fresh concepts, McQueen's shows have become legends not only of fashion bu...(展开全部)

The great 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn left us so many arresting self-portraits, painted at every stage in his eventful life, that his distinctive face and bearing are a familiar part of the 20th-century cultural landscape, a recognizable presence in galleries across Europe and North America. Nonetheless, the artist himself remains an enigma. Rembrandt was a not...(展开全部)

"Animal Eyes" aims to provide a comprehensive account of all known types of eye. It takes the diversity of optical mechanisms as a framework, but many other aspects of the structure and function of eyes are examined. Visual ecology, for example, the way that eyes are specifically adapted to the lifestyles of the animals that bear them, is another important theme. The 'design ph...(展开全部)

Marguerite Duras about her films, filming, film aesthetics, cinema and spectators, about Godard, Chaplin, Woody Allen and Tati, Renoir, Bresson and Cocteau, on May 1968, about books in general and about her own books.

Leonard Marnham is assigned to a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin. His intelligence work—tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow—offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. Leonard's relationship with Maria Ec...(展开全部)