Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old. But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl. In fact, nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brou...(展开全部)

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers as depraved as the psychotic "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky". Here, guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none have ever seen the bru...(展开全部)

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers as depraved as the psychotic "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky". Here, guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none have ever seen the bru...(展开全部)

Rightly fearing that unscrupulous rulers would break them up, seize their resources, or submit them to damaging forms of intervention, strong networks of trust such as kinship groups, clandestine religious sects, and trade diasporas have historically insulated themselves from political control by a variety of strategies. Drawing on a vast range of comparisons over time and spac...(展开全部)

Rightly fearing that unscrupulous rulers would break them up, seize their resources, or submit them to damaging forms of intervention, strong networks of trust such as kinship groups, clandestine religious sects, and trade diasporas have historically insulated themselves from political control by a variety of strategies. Drawing on a vast range of comparisons over time and spac...(展开全部)

Rightly fearing that unscrupulous rulers would break them up, seize their resources, or submit them to damaging forms of intervention, strong networks of trust such as kinship groups, clandestine religious sects, and trade diasporas have historically insulated themselves from political control by a variety of strategies. Drawing on a vast range of comparisons over time and spac...(展开全部)

Rightly fearing that unscrupulous rulers would break them up, seize their resources, or submit them to damaging forms of intervention, strong networks of trust such as kinship groups, clandestine religious sects, and trade diasporas have historically insulated themselves from political control by a variety of strategies. Drawing on a vast range of comparisons over time and spac...(展开全部)

威廉·立德威尔（William Lidwell） 主要从事以设计和工程心理学为主题的写作、演讲与咨询工作。对跨学科的设计、组织创新方法及制度化创新尤其感兴趣。另著有《解构产品设计》（Deconstructing Product Design）和《卓越管理准则》（Guidelines for Excellence in Management）。经常为热门设计类报刊撰写文章。目前在美国德克萨斯州休斯敦市定居和工作。 克里蒂娜·霍顿（Kritina Holden） 现任美国国家航空航天局约翰逊太空中心“使用性测试与分析设备”（UTAF）的技术指导与执行经理，负责提案、项目规划、人员任务分配与指导及UTAF技术质量监督。她也以专家身份，为猎户座宇宙飞船驾驶舱小组提供人类因素工程学支持，协助需求开发、任务分析、成员评估等工作。她目前在休斯敦大学明湖分校担任副教...(展开全部)

威廉·立德威尔（William Lidwell） 主要从事以设计和工程心理学为主题的写作、演讲与咨询工作。对跨学科的设计、组织创新方法及制度化创新尤其感兴趣。另著有《解构产品设计》（Deconstructing Product Design）和《卓越管理准则》（Guidelines for Excellence in Management）。经常为热门设计类报刊撰写文章。目前在美国德克萨斯州休斯敦市定居和工作。 克里蒂娜·霍顿（Kritina Holden） 现任美国国家航空航天局约翰逊太空中心“使用性测试与分析设备”（UTAF）的技术指导与执行经理，负责提案、项目规划、人员任务分配与指导及UTAF技术质量监督。她也以专家身份，为猎户座宇宙飞船驾驶舱小组提供人类因素工程学支持，协助需求开发、任务分析、成员评估等工作。她目前在休斯敦大学明湖分校担任副教...(展开全部)