WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg Since she...(展开全部)

卡蜜儿是报社记者，在上司的安排下，被迫回到家乡，追踪报道两起女童离奇死亡案。

《利器》與《鉛筆》是波卓斯基以設計發明為主題、充滿知識趣味和文明風情的作品。在《利器》之中，作者耙梳上下古今，一一說明湯匙、刀、叉、迴紋針、拉鍊、鎚子、鋸子、瓶子、銀器、鈕扣、3M立可貼、罐頭、易開罐、速食包裝、開瓶器…等等日常用品的發明演進過程，人類文明追求成就、舒適、方便和信賴的努力，盡在其中。書中附有42張極富價值的圖片。

身上的一个个字，组成一幅路线图，清晰记载着卡蜜儿的前半生。 她的臀部有字，她的胸前有字。 卡蜜儿是报社记者，在上司的安排下，被迫回到家乡，追踪报道两起女童离奇死亡案。 她的膝盖有字，她的腿上有字。 自从八年前离开家乡，卡蜜儿就打定主意，摆脱童年的创伤回忆，永不回头。 然而命运又再度把她带回小镇，在这里，母亲的豪宅依旧阴森诡异，而她童年的悲剧，正在同母异父的妹妹身上如出一辙地上演。 她的手腕有字，她的脚踝有字。 当卡蜜儿一点点探寻这些罪案的真相时，她吃惊地发现，自己与受害者有着密不可分的联系。当线索渐渐揭开，死亡的阴影也向她步步逼近。 尖锐的物品，刻在身上的字，会让人上瘾，那是她的心魔，驱之不散。 ★畅销书《消失的爱人》作者吉莉安·弗琳惊艳文坛处女作，让惊悚天王斯蒂芬?金（著有《肖申克的救赎》）辗转反侧，手不释书！ ★入围侦探小说中的“奥斯卡奖”——“...(展开全部)

卡蜜儿是报社记者，在上司的安排下，被迫回到家乡，追踪报道两起女童离奇死亡案。

In this provocative and wide-ranging study, Douglas Mao argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production's dangers lay at the heart of literary modernism. Focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens, Mao shows that modernists were captivated by physical objects, which, regarded as objec...(展开全部)

In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because they don't have direct access to their objects. Hence philosophy shares the same fate as art in being compelled...(展开全部)

Four charming, witty novelsincluding The Nutmeg Treefrom the ';highly gifted' New York Timesbestselling author of Cluny Brown (The New Yorker). A master of the twentieth-century comedy of manners, Br

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. The first section of the book discusses the interpretation of objects, setting the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation. Papers are included which dis...(展开全部)