The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians bu...(展开全部)

Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious, and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anato...(展开全部)

Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions of Germany and Japan - ambitions which sowed the seeds of war - informed by a desire for self-sufficiency in food...(展开全部)

Of Time and Stars is a collection of short stories by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications including the periodicals Dude, The Evening Standard, Lilliput, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Future, New Worlds, Startling Stories, Astounding, Fantasy, King's College Review, Satellite, Amazing St...(展开全部)

中文版为《不宣而战》http://book.douban.com/subject/1115746/ 本书为英国王牌制片人大卫·普特南爵士的力作。在本书中，他将电影提高到了一个前所未有的高度，以WTO的谈判舞台作为开场，以电影史上的国际贸易战为主线，从经济与文化两方面论述了电影的巨大影响力。他旁征博引，同时还结合自己在大西洋两岸担任制片人的亲身经历和体会，为读者讲述了在电影这一20世纪最大众化而且最具影响力的媒体的领域内进行的争夺战。

This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investig...(展开全部)

Since man first wielded a stick in anger, war and conflict have been prime movers in the progress of science and technology. In our earliest days the impetus may have been as simple as protecting territory or a food supply; more recently science has benefited from massive injections of cash when national security is at stake. But as Michael White demonstrates in this superbly w...(展开全部)

Review A "Washington Post" best-seller " Absorb this book, and you can throw out all those contemporary books about management leadership." — "Newsweek" " A breast-pocket favorite of many commanders and U.S. Marines." — "Christian Science Monitor" " "The Art of War" soon could join Machiavelli's "The Prince" as required reading in the executive suite." — "USA Today"

These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single North American family drawn into the very center of the wars maelstrom. These two multimillion-copy bestsellers capture all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War.