Thousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. There are things that must not be discussed. Like going outside. Never mention you might like going outside. Or you'll get what you wish for. What the press is saying: Boing Boing's Official Review: "This story is terrific. I was completely immersed, watching Howey slowly paint a picture of a society gone wrong through the eyes and discovery of some truly compelling characters." Wired.com's Official GeekDad Review: "Howey is among a growing list of authors who are making successful careers of publishing without the assistance of agents and traditional publishing houses. The traditional argument has been that if a book couldn’t find a publisher it probably wasn’t worth reading. However, just as iTunes changed how consumers found music and the way in which bands made their bread, ebook readers, and in particular the Kindle, are changing the ways in which authors find their readers and make a living. All of this means the old assumptions about indie books no longer hold true, and readers need to be prepared to adjust their expectations accordingly. The Wool Omnibus is a great book and deserves recognition as a full fledged contribution to the science fiction genre."

俄裔美国作家安·兰德（Ayn Rand，1905一1982）的科幻小说《地球战栗》（Atlas Shrugged），这部著作中着重于对虚无主义主题的描写。在当代文学中，虚无主义主题在科特·沃尼格特（Ku rt Vonnegut）的书中也可见。罗伯特·斯通（Robert Stone）也是一位经常以虚无主义为主题的美国当代作家。在他的小说“日落之旗”（A Flag for Sunrise）（1981年）中，主角霍利维尔（Holliwell）挣扎着对抗他自己的虚无主义倾向。另一位书写虚无主义的是美国作家恰克·帕拉涅科（Chuck Palahniuk）。如在他1996年的小说“斗阵俱乐部”中，“毁灭计划”的终极目的就是摧毁现代文明以重建人性。然而帕拉涅科声称他并没有故意写虚无主义。 由于这部小说，兰德不再仅仅被称为“最畅销小说家”，而且还被称为“最具影响力的思想家”。在其“后记”中，兰德写道：我的哲学，就其精髓而言，是关于英雄般地生活着的人的概念，他以自身感受的幸福作为他人生的唯一道德目标，他以创造性的生产劳动作为他唯一高尚的活动，他以理性作为他唯一接受的绝对准则。 但是“幸福”，作为一种激情，兰德相信，它来自具有客观价值的成就感。这种成就以及达到它们的手段，我们只能凭借理性，从大千世界中去寻找和辨识。在这一探索过程中，为达到我们命定的目标，我们还需要具备一些美德——独立、诚实、正直、骄傲、一致性与创造性。 安.兰德的“客观主义”哲学从下述“公理”出发，她自己称之为“存在的首要事实”（the primacy of existence），或者，又可称为“形而上学现实主义”——世界独立于人的意识而存在，它是现实的，真实的，是存在的首要事实。这意味着事物就是事物本身（物自体）。当然，也就意味着，人只能感知和想象他所处的这一客观的世界。这一“公理”，兰德认为，是一切属于人的知识的出发点。作为对比，我援引金岳霖先生的知识论——首先有“主体－认知关系－客体”这一思想图案，其次有客观的“所与”（the given）以及所与在官觉内的呈现，再次有基于所与呈现的意像与思想。 一方面，由于采取了雅理士多德以来西方传统哲学的“主－客”两分的立场，还由于承认生存于特定时空的个人的理性能力是有限的，兰德相信，主体对客体的认知是以“局部的”，每当我们的思想图像变得足够大从而难以被记忆的时候，我们就创造一个“概念”——通常以“符号”形式——来代表这一思想图像。故而，概念是知识的“单元”。另一方面，或许受到伯格森的影响，兰德相信，当认知主体试图对每一概念里包含着的无数可能的具有某种相似性的事物时，他自身必须具有“同一性”，他自己的人格不应是分裂的，在他的意识里主体是统一的，否则，这概念就是支离破碎的，从而不成为知识的单元。 所以，人能够把无数可能的事物根据它们之间的某种相似性分类为“概念”，首先因为人有理性——在“主体－认知关系－客体”这一思想图案内主体从所与呈现中发现各种关系的能力，其次因为人有尊严——首先是身体的同一性，继而是思想的独立性，再而是生活的完整性。 在西方思想传统里，兰德的上述立场被称为是“客观主义”的，与此相应，兰德的社会理论是个人主义的，是有着至高无上的尊严的主体对客体的认知并由此获得升华的过程。在中国思想传统里，金岳霖先生称他自己的立场“既非主观主义的也非客观主义的”，他努力要做到的，是“事与理并重”的态度，是“既求真实又求通理”的认识论，是“有能有式”的本体论。 兰德的立场与金岳霖先生的立场，有一点是相通的，那就是对“真”的尊重——我们对外物的真实感要求这外物独立于我们的意识，要求它不随我们意志的改变而改变，同时还要求我们关于外物所建立的通理是公的而非私的。金先生说，上述三项条件缺一则“真”取消。缺乏真，我们会感到人生不是圆融的，而是支离的，是疏远的，是荒唐的。 求真实的人生，兰德由此认为，要求每一个人努力成就一些真实的而非虚幻的事情。人的这种要把生命的真实感表达出来的努力，被称为“生产”，也称为“创造”。

Dark America is experiencing an age of profound economic inequality. Employee protections have been decimated, and state welfare is virtually non-existent, while hedge fund billionaires are grossly under-taxed and big businesses make astounding profits at the expense of the environment and of their workers. How did this come about, and who were the driving forces behind it? In this powerful and meticulously researched work of investigative journalism, Jane Mayer, a staff writer for The New Yorker , exposes the network of billionaires trying to buy the U.S. electoral system―and succeeding.

唐天宝三年，元月十四日，长安。大唐皇都的居民不知道，上元节辉煌灯火亮起之时，等待他们的，将是场吞噬一切的劫难。突厥、狼卫、绑架、暗杀、烈焰、焚城，毁灭长安城的齿轮已经开始转动。而拯救长安的全部希望，只有一个即将被斩首的独眼死囚和短短的十二个时辰……

恩仇泯！共業絕！ 戰爭往往告訴我們一件事：這世界，沒有絕對的好人，也沒有絕對的壞人。 天魔已死，武滄瀾行將就木，原以為一切止息，沒想到卻殺出個「女帝」！ 更兇殘！更冷血！更泯滅人性！她要的，究竟是什麼？ 親情、友情、愛情，手足別離、摯友過招、首次告白， 孫武在這最後關頭的三項考驗，能得到圓滿結果嗎？ 他的「武境」又終將達到何種境地？ 域外考察團將再度啟程，但這一次是……

《龙蛇演义1》内容简介：不为大众熟悉的非常世界——黑帮争斗、黑拳搏命、国际大鳄绞杀他国经济与政治的秘密，尽被原本怯懦而又平凡的混混儿揭开。 他，就是，王超。 结缘秘密组织唐门掌舵人唐紫尘后，王超靠着非凡的毅力与顿悟一步步走上武学巅峰，拳战各派武学大师，加入又背叛神秘组织，游走于各方势力之间。 王超将演绎一个怎样波诡云谲的传奇，铸就怎样一段曲折离奇的人生！！

Continuing the story begun in DAY OF THE DRAGON, WELL OF ETERNITY is the tale of the maverick mage Rhonin and his dragon ally Krasus as they are propelled through time into their world's dangerous and mysterious past.

THE AGE OF DRAGONS IS OVER. Uncertainty plagues Azeroth's ancient guardians as they struggle to find a new purpose. This dilemma has hit Kalecgos, youngest of the former Dragon Aspects, especially hard. Having lost his great powers, how can he-or any of his kind-still make a difference in the world? The answer lies in the distant past, when savage beasts called proto-dragons ruled the skies. Through a mysterious artefact found near the heart of Northrend, Kalecgos witnesses this violent era and the shocking history of the original Aspects: Alexstrasza, Ysera, Malygos, Neltharion, and Nozdormu. In their most primitive forms, the future protectors of Azeroth must stand united against Galakrond, a bloodthirsty creature that threatens the existence of their race. But did these mere proto-dragons face such a horrific adversary alone, or did an outside force help them? Were they given the strength they would become legendary for ...or did they earn it with blood? Kalecgos's discoveries will change everything he knows about the events that led to the ...DAWN OF THE ASPECTS

The shocking techno-thriller that cements Daniel Suarez’s status as the heir to Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy—a terrifying, breathtaking, and all-too-plausible vision of the world’s near future. Unmanned weaponized drones already exist—they’re widely used by America in our war efforts in the Middle East. In Kill Decision, bestselling author Daniel Suarez takes that fact and the real science behind it one step further, with frightening results. Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned—and thanks to her research, automated—drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without human intervention. Together, McKinney and Odin must slow this advance long enough for the world to recognize its destructive power, because for thousands of years the “kill decision” during battle has remained in the hands of humans—and off-loading that responsibility to machines will bring unintended, possibly irreversible, consequences. But as forces even McKinney and Odin don’t understand begin to gather, and death rains down from above, it may already be too late to save humankind from destruction at the hands of our own technology.

Dirk t'Larien journeys to the planet Worlorn, site of the great Festival of Worlds, and, in the desolate twilight descending on the once bright planet, struggles to save his former lover, Gwen, from an alien nobleman. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old. Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did — how I did what I had to do — not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes. It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.

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Well hello to you dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that adulthood offers no refuge from the unexpected horrors, peculiar lack of physical coordination and sometimes unexplained nudity, that accompanied childhood and adolescence? Does everybody struggle with the hazards that accompany, say, sitting elegantly on a bar stool; using chopsticks; pretending to understand the bank crisis; pedicures - surely it's plain wrong for a stranger to fondle your feet? Or is it just me? I am proud to say I have a wealth of awkward experiences - from school days to life as an office temp - and here I offer my 18-year-old self (and I hope you too dear reader) some much needed caution and guidance on how to navigate life's rocky path. Because frankly where is the manual? The much needed manual to life. Well, fret not, for this is my attempt at one and let's call it, because it's fun, a Miran-ual. I thank you.

一直以來，獵命師都弄錯了一件事。獵命師以為自己是靠命格作戰，獵到越強的命格，戰鬥能力就越強。其實真相還是在於，人。只有當人的意志力超越命運的時候，命運的力量，才會被帶往更高的地方。這種空前的覺悟感，令這些獵命師的眼睛，看見了他們一直拒絕看見的…… 猎命师首部曲，完结。

Once upon a time, in small-town India, there lived two intelligent boys. One wanted to use his intelligence to make money. One wanted to use his intelligence to create a revolution. The problem was, they both loved the same girl. Welcome to Revolution 2020. A story about childhood friends Gopal, Raghav and Aarti who struggle to find success and love in Varanasi. However, it isn’t easy to achieve this in an unfair society that rewards the corrupt. As Gopal gives in to the system, and Raghav fights it, who will win?

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves.

This is a terrifying series about a young boy training to be an exorcist. Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins.

你问我为什么魏家坟有妖怪？为什么说粮房店胡同是凶宅？209号坟墓到底有多瘆人？白记棺材铺的老掌柜为啥说自家屋里藏了要命的宝贝？这得从“桥下水怪”说起。 话说一个小水贼在三岔河口下了绝户网，无意中带出了小孩的尸身。“铁三角”郭师傅、丁卯、李大愣历经辗转，终在“金头蜈蚣穴”中将一眼双瞳的真凶抓捕。至此，郭师傅“河神”的名号就传开了。一天，郭师傅家的灶王爷画像被毁，按张半仙的话说是破了风水，要走背字儿，此画像瞬间变成凶卦，直对北方。而北方有闹鬼的粮房店胡同，有门上被贴封条的白记棺材铺，而最瘆人的，是传说镇压在白记棺材铺里那个“不得了的东西”，那东西一旦出来，定会水漫海河，不过究竟是什么，张半仙也推算不出……

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, readers will learn: • Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep. • Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health. • Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower • Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control. • Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control. • Willpower failures are contagious-you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends­­-but you can also catch self-control from the right role models. In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work. Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., is an award-winning psychology instructor at Stanford University, and a lecturer and program developer at the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. She is also the author of The Joy of Movement, The Upside of Stress, and Yoga for Pain Relief. McGonigal lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

本书是由黄晓阳编写的长篇官场小说《二号首长》。《二号首长》的内容简介如下： 传媒王子唐小舟，在报社受到总编辑的无情打压，在家里，老婆谷瑞丹红杏出墙。自认为可以和美女记者徐雅宫发展一场轰轰烈烈的暧昧情事，却被委婉拒绝。 正当人生处于低谷时，省委办公厅一纸调令，调他担任新任省委书记赵德良的秘书，命运曲线迅速触底反弹，总编辑的谄媚，谷瑞丹的温驯，徐雅宫的柔情，接踵而至。一幅全景式官场画卷，在他的生命中展现，而他以特殊的视角，发现官场之上，每一件小事，都闪射着政治智慧的光芒。