The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.

Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions.

The development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to the next great innovation revolution. The past half-century has been a digital age, based on the microchip, computer, and internet. Now we are entering a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.

Should we use our new evolution-hacking powers to make us less susceptible to viruses? What a wonderful boon that would be! And what about preventing depression? Hmmm…Should we allow parents, if they can afford it, to enhance the height or muscles or IQ of their kids?

After helping to discover CRISPR, Doudna became a leader in wrestling with these moral issues and, with her collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Her story is an “enthralling detective story” (Oprah Daily) that involves the most profound wonders of nature, from the origins of life to the future of our species.

<b>From the author of <i>Steve Jobs</i> and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.</b><br /><br />When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.<br /><br />His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive.<br /><br />At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. “I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,” he said.<br /><br />It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.<br /><br />For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?

For readers of Empire of Pain and Dopesick , an arresting deep dive into how Alzheimer’s disease treatment has been set back by corrupt researchers, negligent regulators, and the profit motives of Big Pharma.

Nearly seven million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease, a tragedy that is already projected to grow into a $1 trillion crisis by 2050. While families suffer and promises of pharmaceutical breakthroughs keep coming up short, investigative journalist Charles Piller’s Doctored shows that we’ve quite likely been walking the wrong path to finding a cure all along—led astray by a cabal of self-interested researchers, government accomplices, and corporate greed.

Piller begins with a whistleblower—Vanderbilt professor Matthew Schrag—whose work exposed a massive scandal. Schrag found that a University of Minnesota lab led by a precocious young scientist and a Nobel Prize–rumored director delivered apparently falsified data at the heart of the leading hypothesis about the disease. Piller’s revelations of Schrag’s findings stunned the field and the public.

From there, based on years of investigative reporting, Doctored exposes a vast network of deceit and its players, all the way up to the FDA. Piller uncovers evidence that hundreds of important Alzheimer’s research papers are based on false data. In the process, he reveals how even against a flood of money and influence, a determined cadre of scientific renegades have fought back to challenge the field’s institutional powers in service to science and the tens of thousands of patients who have been drawn into trials to test dubious drugs. It is a shocking tale with huge ramifications not only for Alzheimer’s disease, but for scientific research, funding, and oversight at large.

❤️‍🔥我渴望被世界理解，哪怕徒劳无功
🧙‍♀️27岁华裔女作家匡灵秀斩获科幻界诺奖星云奖，轨迹奖，英国国家图书奖
🪄语言即魔法，翻译即背叛
🎆设定新颖的银条奥秘，小人物撼动帝国根基
🧚‍♂殖民主义、身份认同、语言翻译、暗黑学院……堪称“工业革命时期的哈利·波特”
【内容简介】
19世纪20年代，瘟疫席卷广州，男孩罗宾全家惨死，而他死里逃生，神秘的洛弗尔教授出手相救，把他带往大洋彼岸的英国伦敦培养成人，只为使他有资格进入巴别塔内学习。
巴别塔是这个世界的翻译中心，也是魔法的中心。塔中精通多门语言的学者借助翻译使魔法生效。翻译不可能完美，所以在翻译过程中丢失或扭曲的含义就被银条捕捉并展现。刻字的银条是帝国力量的源泉，它使英国的舰队所向披靡，促使白银工业革命诞生，还帮助英国把全世界的白银卷入囊中。
随着学习的深入，罗宾沉醉于翻译魔法，却不知道自己和同伴即将卷入一场酝酿已久的阴谋当中……消失的学生，诡秘的社团，当恶意、嫉妒、贪婪和暴力充斥这座理想之塔，是忠于自己母语与故土，还是在异国他乡继续苟活，他们必须做出抉择。
【编辑推荐】
一、语言即魔法。设定新颖的魔法奥秘，它来源于翻译时丢失的语义，只要一个词翻译出来与原意有所差异，魔法就会在银条上生效。
咒语：囫囵吞枣/To accept without thinking。
效果：甜腻滋味充斥着他的口腔。他快要被蜜枣噎死了。喉咙堵得严严实实，他无法呼吸——
咒语：无形/invisible。
效果：他们没有了形态，飘荡着，扩张着。他们是空气，是砖墙，是鹅卵石地面。
二、史诗般的恢宏叙事，真实还原的牛津古老校园，渺小的人物如何撼动帝国的根基，孤独无助的时刻只有依靠友谊。
电报的发明、照相机的诞生，人们的衣食住行都与白银魔法息息相关。它是英国工业革命的背后推手，是协助帝国殖民扩张的帮凶。当人物的选择与历史的走向相互重叠，小说的厚重由此显现。作者参照牛津史与过往学习经历，还原了古老的牛津校园。《巴别塔》的另一大特色是它的人物塑造，尤其是对主角罗宾的塑造。在小说结束时，试着回顾一下小说的开头，你会发现罗宾的变化有多大。他的悲伤、愤怒、进退两难、挣扎、善良以及相对短暂的幸福时刻都让人感觉如此真实。他要战胜的嫉妒、贪婪、人物的善良一次次遭受着考验。幸运的是，罗宾还有陪伴他的三个小伙伴。
三、翻译即背叛。语言不是涵盖一整套普世概念的术语表，翻译也不存在一一对应的关系，它是戴着镣铐舞蹈，是遗憾的艺术，是巴别塔的诅咒。
翻译意味着对原意的损毁，还意味着对母语的欺骗。当罗宾发觉自己所钟爱的翻译魔法，成为帝国侵略的帮凶，他陷入迟疑与犹豫。是遵循内心的道德指引投身反抗，还是苟且偷生享受荣华富贵？
四、封面沿用美版封面，主视觉巴别塔气势恢宏。书名采用烫金工艺，内封专色印金工艺，封面魔法能量线往塔尖汇聚象征着巴别塔在这个世界魔法中心的地位。
【名人推荐】
韩松、姚海军、何平、苗炜、陈楸帆、肖鼠击掌推荐
《巴别塔》的作者是出生在广州的匡灵秀，敏锐捕捉到了语言学习和帝国贸易及战争的关系，她安排男主角罗宾前往牛津学语言，然后安排另一位主角来劝诫罗宾——你要认识到殖民者与帝国的不公正与非正义，你要反抗。罗宾陷入两难境地，他不想破坏平静的学习生活，也不愿违背良心。小说前两百页可能有太多关于语言学习的内容了，读者期待看到更多魔法，可作者偏偏不停地讲语言学习和翻译理论。但如果你有耐心，会发现这个故事的迷人之处，语言不就是魔法吗？这本以牛津大学为背景的小说，会激起你对语言学习的兴趣。
——作家 苗炜
《巴别塔》如同一件自我指涉的精巧艺术品，展现了一个以翻译为魔法的架空世界，同时又无比犀利地借助充满代入感的角色与扣人心弦的剧情，揭露了语言作为一种强大的权力武器，如何被帝国主义用于殖民、操控、混淆并创造新的现实。匡灵秀完美地平衡了现实与虚构，学术与通俗，野心勃勃地打破类型界限，堪称杰出。
——科幻作家 陈楸帆
匡灵秀笔下奇妙的魔法设定，开启一段关于贸易和殖民、文化和技术的另类历史。跟随主人公在学术体制中的成长之路，读者也被那些经典问题不断敲打：知识生产和权力运作拥有怎样纠缠不清的关系？巴别塔为拥有边缘身份和语言天赋的年轻人提供的学术舞台，也正是逐渐觉醒的主人公和他的伙伴们不得不痛苦正视的庇护所。无疑，这庇护是由暴力的砖瓦严丝合缝地构筑而成。从何反抗？正如所有“弑父”的动作一样，主人公必然从他所处的巨大结构的内部找到缝隙，进而引爆——而人内心最本真的愤怒和屈辱，则是这结构中早已暗藏的引信。
——科幻播客“惊奇”主播 肖鼠

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet

More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today—and one of the very few women in her field— Into the Planet  blends science, adventure, and memoir to bring readers face-to-face with the terror and beauty of earth’s remaining unknowns and the extremes of human capability.

Jill Heinerth—the first person in history to dive deep into an Antarctic iceberg and leader of a team that discovered the ancient watery remains of Mayan civilizations—has descended farther into the inner depths of our planet than any other woman. She takes us into the harrowing split-second decisions that determine whether a diver makes it back to safety, the prejudices that prevent women from pursuing careers underwater, and her endeavor to recover a fallen friend’s body from the confines of a cave. But there’s beauty beyond the danger of diving, and while Heinerth swims beneath our feet in the lifeblood of our planet, she works with biologists discovering new species, physicists tracking climate change, and hydrogeologists examining our finite freshwater reserves.

 

Written with hair-raising intensity,  Into the Planet  is the first book to deliver an intimate account of cave diving, transporting readers deep into inner space, where fear must be reconciled and a mission’s success balances between knowing one’s limits and pushing the envelope of human endurance.

☆★中國第一起互聯網求助事件☆★
本書是朱令事件迄今最完整的紀錄……我所著迷的，除了故事本身，還在於環繞在這個無辜殘損的生命四周的，豐富的時代細節，它像微縮膠片一樣記錄了中國的過去，並不太久的過去，也讓我們理解中國的現在。──李志 德
從未遺忘，不敢遺忘，希望有生之年看到真相
──一名中國網友對清大女學生朱令被下毒事件所下的注解
「一九九四年十二月五號感到腹痛，繼而發展為全身劇痛。持續三天後開始脫髮，顏面神經麻痺，中樞眼肌麻痺，呼吸障礙，目前已失去自主呼吸能力。」
一九九五年，北京清華女學生朱令罹患怪病已四個月，從秀逸且多才多藝的學霸，變成躺在協和醫院加護病房、全身插滿儀器的病患。她的高中同學姑且試著以不甚流利的英文，將上述文字傳上當時在中國才剛起步的互聯網求援。不久後，回覆紛至，這些訊息帶來一個令人疑惑的詞：Thallium（鉈，有毒化合物），這是一種罕見的化學物質，並不是生活中隨便就可以接觸得到的。
之後半個月，全球專家共寄來七百七十六份電郵，其中一百零六份明確指出朱令是鉈中毒。朱令父母要求協和醫院為朱令進行铊中毒測試遭拒，請求學校協助未獲正面回應，甚至連朱令宿舍都莫名遭竊……一切的一切，都顯示整個事件正往詭譎的方向前進：協和不希望自身權威被挑戰；校方的不作為，則是不願承擔毒物管理不善、現場保護不力的失職責任；更恐怖的是，兇手極可能就是清華的學生、朱令的室友孫維──她是朱令身邊唯一能接觸到铊的人。
之後，朱令和她父母的人生就在醫療單位、公安部門以及法院間來回拉扯。即使諸多事證都指向孫維正是下毒者，然因為她的高幹家庭背景，此事件始終無法真正破案。如果不是一般市民、互聯網和海內外無數網友的持續關注與無私援助，朱令不可能存活到現在。
朱令的四十五年，講述的是網路社群、小市民與難以撼動的權力結構對抗的故事，也是在巨大的絕望中，看見不間斷的善意與微小希望的故事。

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits -- just behind a Raman airlock door.

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.

For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. The question should have an obvious yes or no. But once you try to find life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life?

As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a uniquely specialized toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In Alien Earths , she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analyzing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search. With infectious enthusiasm, she takes us on an eye-opening journey to the most unusual exoplanets that have shaken our worldview - planets covered in oceans of lava, lonely wanderers lost in space, and others with more than one sun in their sky! We also see the imagined worlds of science fiction and how close they come to reality.

We live in an incredible new epoch of exploration. As our witty and knowledgeable tour guide, Dr. Kaltenegger shows how we discover not merely new continents, like the explorers of old, but whole new worlds circling other stars and how we could spot life there. Worlds from where aliens may even be gazing back at us. What if we're not alone?

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"A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe. Since its publication, however, there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world, confirming many of Professor Hawking's predictions. Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these observations, Hawking has written a new introduction, updated chapters throughout, and added an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel.
"A Brief History of Time" has guided nonscientists everywhere to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe, taking them to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions — as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. This anniversary edition makes vividly clear why Professor Hawking's eloquent classic has transformed our view of the universe.
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Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God."
--Therese Littleton
From Library Journal
A new edition?with pictures?for those who couldn't fathom the original.
About Author
Stephen Hawking, who was born on the anniversary of Galileo's death in 1942, holds Isaac Newton's chair as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, he is also the author of Black Holes and Baby Universes, a collection of essays published in 1993, as well as numerous scientific papers and books.
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作为四大名著之一的《西游记》，自成书以来，对其研究、整理代不乏人。本次校注《西游记》，以世德堂本为底本，参校本为杨闽斋本、朱鼎臣本、李卓吾评本、唐僧西游记、唐三藏出身全传、西游证道书和新说西游记等。就其中的思想、名物、典制、文化现象等加以详细注释：订正了工具书、旧注中的错误；采用各种途径，利用不同学科知识对小说中的疑难之处加以释读；充分利用历代研究成果，尽量搜集整理，并择善而从；对其中的宗教内容进行了尽可能详尽的探究。这个最新的注释本可以帮助现代读者深入了解和理解《西游记》这部生动的神魔小说。

#1 New York Times Bestseller

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents

“An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story…Gripping.”—The Washington Post

“One of the most consequential and most prominent [careers] in American medicine in the past fifty years.”—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker

Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous – and most revered – doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through Covid (and through the torrents of Trump) earned him the trust of millions during one of the most terrifying periods in modern American history, but this was only the most recent of the global epidemics in which Dr. Fauci played a major role. His crucial role in researching HIV and bringing AIDS into sympathetic public view and his leadership in navigating the Ebola, SARS, West Nile, and anthrax crises, make him truly an American hero.

His memoir reaches back to his boyhood in Brooklyn, New York, and carries through decades of caring for critically ill patients, navigating the whirlpools of Washington politics, and behind-the-scenes advising and negotiating with seven presidents on key issues from global AIDS relief to infectious disease preparedness at home. ON CALL will be an inspiration for readers who admire and are grateful to him and for those who want to emulate him in public service. He is the embodiment of “speaking truth to power,” with dignity and results.

The much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy.

In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order.

Some embrace the change, others fear the unknown; none have control of their fate.

The Silo is still in danger.

There are those set on its destruction.

Jules knows they must be stopped.

The battle has been won.

The war is just beginning.

In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the sequel to the New York Times best-selling Wool series.

This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived late to the party and who wish to save a dollar or two while picking up the same stories in a single package.

The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more. Without you, none of this would exist. Your demand created this as much as I did.

This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.

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“Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review)

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.

“Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune

嫌疑人杀人抛尸，却因意外在大庭广众之下被当场抓获。现场至少有几百个目击证人，嫌疑人对整个犯罪经过也供认不讳。人证、物证、口供，证据链齐全。就在检察机关对嫌疑人正式提起公诉之时，案情却陡然生变……
这样一桩铁板钉钉的杀人抛尸案背后，究竟隐藏着怎样令人震惊的案情？温文尔雅的知名律师、声名狼藉的前检察官、暴躁偏激的“坏警察”……各自扮演着什么角色？
为了查清真相，“他”历经十年光阴，付出了青春、事业、名声、前途、家庭，甚至，还包括生命。

When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son--and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly cat.
But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth--more terrifying than death itself...and hideously more powerful.

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.
April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet’s delicate ecology. With the images of the abandoned homes and playgrounds beyond the barbed wire of the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone, the rusting graveyards of contaminated trucks and helicopters, the farmland lashed with black rain, the event fixed for all time the notion of radiation as an invisible killer.
Chernobyl was also a key event in the destruction of the Soviet Union, and, with it, the United States’ victory in the Cold War. For Moscow, it was a political and financial catastrophe as much as an environmental and scientific one. With a total cost of 18 billion rubles—at the time equivalent to $18 billion—Chernobyl bankrupted an already teetering economy and revealed to its population a state built upon a pillar of lies.
The full story of the events that started that night in the control room of Reactor No.4 of the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant has never been told—until now. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, journalist Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story, including Alexander Akimov and Anatoli Dyatlov, who represented the best and worst of Soviet life; denizens of a vanished world of secret policemen, internal passports, food lines, and heroic self-sacrifice for the Motherland. Midnight in Chernobyl, award-worthy nonfiction that reads like sci-fi, shows not only the final epic struggle of a dying empire but also the story of individual heroism and desperate, ingenious technical improvisation joining forces against a new kind of enemy.

《进入空气稀薄地带:登山者的圣经》是美国著名记者和畅销书《走入荒芜》的作者乔恩·科莱考尔对珠穆朗玛峰历史上死亡人数最多的攀登季节所做的权威性记述。为完成《外界》杂志报道珠峰日益商业的任务，出色的登山者科莱考尔作为世界上最优秀的高山向导罗布·霍尔的顾客前往喜马拉雅山脉。纤瘦的35岁的新西兰人霍尔在1990年至1995年间4次登临珠峰顶。与霍尔队伍同时攀登的还有由40负的美国人斯科特·费希尔率领的登山队。斯科特有着传奇般的力量和精神，并于1994年在不借助氧气瓶的状态下登上了峰顶。但是霍尔和费希尔都没能发生在1996年5月的那场捉弄人的暴风雪……
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Was it fate that put Krakauer—at once a crack climber, a seasoned journalist, and a sensitive conscience—on the world's highest mountain during that notorious 1996 season? Unpredictable weather, human folly, and a mind-set committed to client satisfaction killed 12 people on Everest that year, while the whole world watched. Krakauer showed us what it really meant: the traffic jams on the summit ridge; guides bending their own rules to get exhausted clients to the top. He showed us the consequences of disrespect for this formidable goddess, Chomolungma, as the Sherpas call her. And Krakauer is as hard on himself as he is on the rest. Whereas Annapurna is the record of a triumph, Into Thin Air is the postmortem of a debacle—less inspiring, but no less powerful. As the most widely read mountaineering work in recent history, it has profoundly shaped our idea of extreme adventure and who and what it is for.