《虚构集》是小说集，给博尔赫斯带来巨大声誉。发表于1944年，含《小径分岔的花园》和《杜撰集》。博尔赫斯令人耳目一新的文风得到了最大限度的体现。

本书收有“女人的身体”、“光笼罩你”、“我记得你往日的样子”、“陶醉在松林中”等诗歌。

故事发生在冬天的东京，时间跨度只有晚上12点到早晨6点七个小时，采用两条平行线结构，分别叙述一对年轻的姐妹，一个在黑夜中昏睡，一个在思考和行动。
女孩十九岁，漂亮，是由不法中国人偷运到日本被迫接客的“妓女”。小说开始不久，悲惨场景就出现了：天黑以后她在情爱旅馆接客时，因突然来了月经而被一个叫白川的日本人打得鼻青脸肿，衣物也被抢走，赤身裸体蜷缩在墙角吞声掩泣，床单上满是血迹。半夜在餐馆里独自看书的女主人公玛丽因为会讲中国话，通过吹长号的大学生高桥的介绍，被旅馆女经理找来当翻译处理这场“麻烦”，故事情节由此铺展开去。

本书收入艾特玛托夫六十年代中后期创作的四部小说。其中，《永别了，古利萨雷！》通过一个牵着一匹老马走在路上的老人一夜的回忆，再现了人与马一生的遭遇，塑造出骏马古利萨雷和耿直倔强的老牧民塔纳巴伊的生动形象，讴歌了普通劳动者真诚善良美好的内心世界。和作家其他十余部中篇一样，这部小说也被拍成电影，并获得一九六八年苏联国家奖。另一部中篇《母亲一大地》还被改编成歌剧。

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics,  an essential and  paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.
Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.

Book Description
A Council on Foreign Relations Book

China’s spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country’s natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.

Drawing on historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China, Economy traces the economic and political roots of China’s environmental challenge and the evolution of the leadership's response. She argues that China’s current approach to environmental protection mirrors the one embraced for economic development: devolving authority to local officials, opening the door to private actors, and inviting participation from the international community, while retaining only weak central control. The result has been a patchwork of environmental protection in which a few wealthy regions with strong leaders and international ties improve their local environments, while most of the country continues to deteriorate, sometimes suffering irrevocable damage. Economy compares China’s response with the experience of other societies and sketches out several possible futures for the country.

Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion? In this explosive book, Tim Jackson - a top sustainability adviser to the UK government - makes a compelling case against continued economic growth in developed nations. No one denies that development is essential for poorer nations. But in the advanced economies there is mounting evidence that ever-increasing consumption adds little to human happiness and may even impede it. More urgently, it is now clear that the ecosystems that sustain our economies are collapsing under the impacts of rising consumption. Unless we can radically lower the environmental impact of economic activity - and there is no evidence to suggest that we can - we will have to devise a path to prosperity that does not rely on continued growth. Economic heresy? Or an opportunity to improve the sources of well-being, creativity and lasting prosperity that lie outside the realm of the market? Tim Jackson provides a credible vision of how human society can flourish - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. Fulfilling this vision is simply the most urgent task of our times. This book is a substantially revised and updated version of Jackson's controversial study for the Sustainable Development Commission, an advisory body to the UK Government. The study rapidly became the most downloaded report in the Commission's nine year history when it was launched earlier this year.

建筑学专业的洛克先生从大学开始就因为不遵循传统说教而被开掉，而听话的另一位先生顺利的毕业并且找到一份好差事。所有人都不喜欢洛克先生，甚至专栏作家也时不时的老羞辱他，洛克爱着的姑娘——也不出所料的跟了那位听话的好好先生……洛克先生活着就是麻烦不断。 在一次政府建筑项目中，那位他的同学，听话的好好先生居然同意了洛克先生独立自主的设计。如果洛克先生能因此获得荣誉，获得成功，并获得尊敬，由此改变世界对他的看法，那真是美好的生活啊。可洛克先生并为因此获得好运气：公众一如既往的反对混子洛克设计建设的这个项目，政府也因此推翻了这个项目，而两位设计者也无法控告政府，政府是无权被告的。洛克先生又一次显示了他混子本色，他搞了一些炸药把那做了一半的楼给炸成一堆碎瓦片子。他也因此而上了法庭，对于自己的行为，他是这么说的：创造是自己的私事，是天赋的权利，维护创造也是同样的天赋个人的权力……
Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.

Annie und Duncan könnten eine ganz normale Ehe führen, hätte Duncan noch ein anderes Thema als die Musik des Songschreibers Tucker Crowe. Als dieser ein uraltes Album neu veröffentlicht und Annie keinerlei Begeisterung zeigt, spitzt die Lage sich zu.After "A Long Way Down" a great new novel about the nature of creativity and obsession, and how two lonely people can gradually find each other.

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.

The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea.

Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of questions that need an answer, and soon. His girlfriend has just left him. Can he really go on living in a poky flat surrounded by vinyl and CDs or should he get a real home, a real family and a real job? Perhaps most difficult of all, will he ever be able to stop thinking about life in terms of the All Time Top Five bands, books, films, songs – even now that he’s been dumped again, the top five break-ups? Memorable, sad and very, very funny, this is the truest book you will ever read about the things that really matter.

在写法上，《从一到无穷大》与其他常见的按主题分类来写作的科普著作不同，伽莫夫完全是一种大家的写作风格，把数学、物理乃至生物学的许多内容有机地融合在一起，仿佛作者是想到哪说到哪，将叙述的内容信手拈来，其实，仔细思考，就会感觉到其中各部分内容之间内在的紧密关系。一般科普读物，往往怕数学太“枯燥”和“艰深”而不敢使用它，只局限于做定性的概念描述。这本书则恰恰相反，全书都用数学贯穿起来，先漫谈一些基本的数学知识，然后用一些有趣的比喻，阐述了爱因斯坦的相对论和四维时空结构，并讨论了人类在认识微观世界（如基本粒子、基因等）和宏观世界（如太阳系、星系等）方面的成就。

For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple：he has，in his own words，‘issed his life away’.And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all …But not，as it happens，alone.Because first single-mum Maureen，then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party.They've stolen his idea-but brought their own reasons.
Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you.A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies.But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living？
‘Hornby pins down the age in which we live with precision and comic brilliance’.