In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question -- Why do cuts work? -- Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subject...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Oxford University zoologist Parker tackles one of biology's biggest mysteries in this nontechnical account. He provides a relatively simple explanation for the sudden explosion of life forms that defines the boundary between the pre-Cambrian and Cambrian eras approximately 543 million years ago: "The Cambrian explosion was triggered by the sudden evolutio...(展开全部)

What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz - a wonderfully lively and accessible history of Modern Art by the BBC Arts Editor. "An essential primer not only for art lovers but for art loathers too". (Express). What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look ...(展开全部)

◎作者简介 安德鲁• 帕克，1967 年出生于英国，曾于澳大利亚博物馆从事海洋生物研究，同时取得悉尼麦克里大学博士学位。之后转往英国牛津大学动物学系开展研究工作，并于 1999 年成为英国皇家学会研究员。此外，他也是牛津大学萨默维尔学院的研究员。 ………………………… ◎译者简介 于翀涵，中国地质大学（北京）海洋学院博士研究生在读。曾实地考察寒武纪澄江动物群，且有幸随中国大洋49航次前往西南印度洋开展科考。学习之余从事科普工作近7年，在中国地质博物馆及中国地质大学（北京）博物馆任志愿讲解员。本书为她的首本科普译作。 李晨昊，本硕就读于中国地质大学（北京），地球物理学理学硕士。现就职于中国航天科技某研究所，自然科学爱好者。

What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz - a wonderfully lively and accessible history of Modern Art by the BBC Arts Editor. "An essential primer not only for art lovers but for art loathers too". (Express). What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look ...(展开全部)

米切尔·P. 罗斯（Mitchel P. Roth），加州大学圣芭芭拉分校博士，萨姆休斯顿州立大学犯罪学教授，他的研究主要关注刑事司法的历史面向,以及谋杀、恐怖主义、有组织犯罪的历史，著有《有组织犯罪》（Organized Crime）及《罪与罚：刑事司法制度的历史》（Crime and Punishment: A History of the Criminal Justice System）等书。他本人及研究成果也被CNN、FOX等多家媒体报导。

Left adrift in arctic waters with a gunshot wound to the head, adrift in arctic waters, Christy White was rescued from an icy death by a mysterious man. She craved retribution, and he taught her how to get it--how to make sense of her past and how to kill. They tried to freeze her out, but they should have finished the job, because now she's back with a vengeance! Collecting th...(展开全部)

“Anonymity is such a terribly strong position in which to entrench one’s self. To you I am Sheila Delaney – to me you are – an unknown quantity.” At the Hunt Ball in Westhampton, Sheila Delaney dances the night away with a stranger – a man who wanted only to be known as Mr X. At the end of the evening, he departs as mysteriously as he appeared. Months later, private investigato...(展开全部)

One enemy spy knows the secret if the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name: "The Needle"--who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life. Ken Follett's unsurpassed and unforgettab...(展开全部)

In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche and in the investigations of contemporary psychology; it also forecasts Bata...(展开全部)