香水不只是種產品，更是幾世紀以來，人類用來保持神奇與奧秘氣氛的方法之一。 作者研究香水並實地演練如何製造香水，從而體會出香水的藝術是種心靈的運作過程，也是美學的養成過程。它一度是神聖、卻也是世俗的，既屬於精神層次又是物質面，既神秘又現代，真實可觸卻又難以捉摸，奧妙精深卻也極端膚淺。

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to...(展开全部)

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to...(展开全部)

伊恩·特里吉利斯是一位大胡子江湖医生和某个名誉扫地的塔罗牌预言师的儿子。他还是另一位大胡子乔治·马丁的天才徒弟。 他在明尼苏达州出生长大，他的父母为了躲避一位佛兰德亲王的怒火而逃到了那里。(按他的说法，详细的故事还会牵扯到一艘荷兰不定期货船与一匹偷来的马。)如今他和妻子与一只饮食过量的猫住在新墨西哥州，而他在那里与作家、科学家及其他“恶党”为伍。 伊恩·特里吉利斯毕业于明尼苏达州州立大学，物理学博士。现就职于美国洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室。代表作品：“炼金术战争”系列，“神魔二战”系列。

Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of chaos and the consequences of its principal findings -- that actual, precise rules may govern such apparently random behavior -- has been a major part of the work of Edwar...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appe...(展开全部)

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materialit...(展开全部)

A brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sen...(展开全部)

The first volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage.Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, starring Sean Bean. Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.It will stretch ...(展开全部)