Stretching across three centuries, from the start of the Civil War through two World Wars and Prohibition to today, Bitter Brew tells the astonishing story of how five generations of men-fathers, sons, and brothers - took a small, bankrupt brewery on the banks of the Mississippi and built it into an international colossus. It is the story of America's past and present-a tale of...(展开全部)

This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...(展开全部)

This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...(展开全部)

Prussia, a state which contributed so much to European civilization, only exis-ted as an independent power for 170 years. Sebastian Haffner, a Prussian by birth, reassesses the legend and tells the short but dramatic history of this unique state. He casts fresh light on its foundation, its struggle to become a great power in the eighteenth century, its important role as one of ...(展开全部)

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. It is a wonder Pluto has any fans, yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, people rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in the American cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos and Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a quest to discover why. Only Tyson can tell this s...(展开全部)

作者：尼尔•德格拉斯•泰森 天体物理学家，美国自然博物馆海登天文馆馆长，畅销科普书作者。 纪录片《宇宙》主持人，《生活大爆炸》客串演员，《时代》周刊影响力人物。 2001年国际天文学联合会将13123号小行星以他的名字命名 2004年获美国国家航空航天局“杰出公共服务奖章” 2007年入选《时代》周刊“全球百位最具影响力人物” 2008年入选《发现》杂志“科学界十大最具影响力人物” 2017年获“斯蒂芬•霍金科学传播奖” 译者：郑永春 行星科学家，中国科学院国家天文台研究员，中国科普作家协会副理事长，青年科学家社会责任联盟理事长，科普中国形象大使，教科版小学《科学》教材编写组成员。 中国首位“卡尔•萨根奖”得主 全国十大科学传播人物 中国科学院青年创新促进会首届优秀会员 “中国科学院院长奖”得主 译者：刘晗 北京外国语大学博士生。本科毕业于北京师范大...(展开全部)

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. It is a wonder Pluto has any fans, yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, people rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in the American cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos and Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a quest to discover why. Only Tyson can tell this s...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 斯蒂芬•格林布拉特（Stephen Greenblatt），著名文学批评家、莎士比亚研究学者、作家，哈佛大学约翰•科根校级教授（John Cogan University Professor），《诺顿版莎士比亚全集》主编，曾获梅隆杰出人文学者奖、普利策奖、美国国家图书奖等，著有《大转向》、《莎士比亚的自由》（以上两部作品已由甲骨文推出中文版）、Will in the World、Tyrant等知名作品。 【译者简介】 生安锋，清华大学人文学院外文系长聘教授、博士生导师，中国比较文学学会理事，国际比较文学学会会员，美国哈佛大学博士后，中美富布赖特高级研究学者。研究领域包括英美文学、当代西方文论、比较文学、文化研究等。