麦拉•弗莱曼（Mara Friedman），本书传主珍妮丝•乔普林（Janis Joplin）的生前好友与亲密工作伙伴，是珍妮丝•乔普林传记的最佳作者。

Electrifying, highly acclaimed, and intensely personal, this new and updated version of Myra Friedman's classic biography of Janis Joplin teems with dramatic insights into Joplin's genius and into the chaotic times that catapulted her to fame as the legendary queen of rock. It is a stunning panorama of the turbulent decade when Joplin's was the rallying voice of a generation th...(展开全部)

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)

On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced...(展开全部)

On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced...(展开全部)

An erudite history of medicine...a welcome addition to any medical collection. -- Booklist How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant coll...(展开全部)

The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel—a particular packaging of bits—conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture i...(展开全部)

An erudite history of medicine...a welcome addition to any medical collection. -- Booklist How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant coll...(展开全部)

阿纳尔多•莫米利亚诺（Arnaldo Momigliano，1908—1987），西方20世纪古代史及古代史学史名家。1908年出生于意大利，二十年代加入都灵大学学习西方古代史，28岁成为教授。1938年莫米利亚诺因犹太人出身避难英国，留居伦敦国王学院任教直到1987年去世。莫米利亚诺是欧洲大陆古代史专业的代表人物，由于其后半生的经历而使其学术成果在英美国家广为传播，影响很大。

彼得．祖克曼（Peter Zuckerman），阿曼達．帕多安（Amanda Padoan） 彼得．祖克曼是記者，在不到三十歲時就獲得多個新聞報導獎，包括利文斯頓獎（Livingston Award）、貝爾森獎（C.B. Blethen Award）及國家新聞獎（National Journalism Awards）；阿曼達．帕多安是登山者，她的好友卡里姆．馬赫本（Karim Meherban）死於2008年k2山難。兩人於事件發生後著手此書，總共採訪兩百多人，參考了數以千計的照片和影片，歷時三年才完成這部極地登山史上的重要報導。 譯者簡介 易思婷 美國賓州大學電腦博士，因熱愛戶外活動而選擇一條不同的人生路。目前旅居美國，在攀登世界鑽研、教學、寫作、挑戰前人未曾嘗試過的攀登路線。著有《睡在懸崖上的人》、《一攀就上手》、《傳統攀登》。譯有《幸福的征途》...(展开全部)