Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former UK prime minister Tony Blair and WME chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the crown prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passionately about bringing women into the workforce and toning down Saudi Ara...(展开全部)

A Maiden… Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by ...(展开全部)

The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. Once a proud Senator...(展开全部)

"I read a lot of books. A quick measure comes up with more than 10 ft of shelf space filled with books relating to the topic...of my collection only 8 books sit on my desk. Today I added another to that rather select group. It is Morgan Downey's "Oil 101" ...It differs from them, however, both in being focused not just on oil, but also in explaining more of the financial matter...(展开全部)

It's 1979, Hugh Thomson is eighteen, far from home, with time to kill - and on his way to Mexico. When a stranger tells him there's money to be made by driving a car over the US border to sell on the black market in Central America, Hugh decides to give it a go. Throwing himself on the mercy of Mexicans he meets or crashes into, Hugh and his Oldsmobile 98 journey through the re...(展开全部)

主编简介： 罗新，1963年生于湖北，北京大学中国古代史研究中心暨历史学系教授，专业研究方向为魏晋南北朝史和中国古代民族史。专业代表作《中古北族名号研究》（2009）、《黑毡上的北魏皇帝》（2014），著有旅行文学作品《从大都到上都——在古道上重新发现中国》（2018）。 作者简介： 休·汤姆森（Hugh Thomson），英国探险家和旅行作家，英国皇家地理学会会员。他曾几次前往南美探寻印加遗迹。著有《白石》（The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland）、《胭脂红》（Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru）、《龙舌兰油：迷失墨西哥》等。作为纪录片制作人，他获得了许多奖项，作品包括与威廉·达尔林普合作的《印度之旅》（Indian Journey...(展开全部)

In the mist-shrouded haze of the past, the world of Azeroth teemed with wondrous creatures of every kind. Mysterious Elves and hardy Dwarves walked among tribes of man in relative peace and harmony -- until thearrival of the demonic army known as the Burning Legion shattered theworld's tranquility forever. Now Orcs, Dragons, Goblins, and Trolls allvie for supremacy over the sca...(展开全部)

Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir. They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother s...(展开全部)

An important new political and economic history of the unravelling of the British Empire and its connection to the decline of sterling as a leading international currency. Analyzing events such as the 1951 Iranian oil nationalization crisis and the 1956 Suez crisis, Steven Galpern provides a new perspective on British imperialism in the Middle East by reframing British policy i...(展开全部)

Edward Burtynsky's Oil collects a decades' worth of photographing the world's largest oil fields, refineries, freeway interchanges and automobile plants, in an attempt to comprehend the scale of production attending this most politicized of resources. The ideal photographer for this job, Burtynsky locates and documents the sites that urban dwellers never see, and questions huma...(展开全部)