"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)

Pirate: The Buccaneer’s (Unofficial) Manual is a witty, informative, and highly entertaining guide to how to be a pirate, combining historical accuracy with an irreverent but revealing look at the eighteenth-century world of piracy and buccaneering. Included are chapters on the history of piracy, stretching back to ancient Greece and Rome; essentials of language and dress; nota...(展开全部)

Pirate: The Buccaneer’s (Unofficial) Manual is a witty, informative, and highly entertaining guide to how to be a pirate, combining historical accuracy with an irreverent but revealing look at the eighteenth-century world of piracy and buccaneering. Included are chapters on the history of piracy, stretching back to ancient Greece and Rome; essentials of language and dress; nota...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 罗伯特·库尔森（Robert Kurson），作家，先后毕业于威斯康星大学哲学系、哈佛大学法学院。曾在《滚石》杂志、《纽约时报杂志》和《时尚先生》上发表多篇获奖作品，他的《影子潜水者》（Shadow Divers）荣获2005年美国书商协会最有意义的非虚构作品奖。他现在居于芝加哥。

【作者简介】 罗伯特·库尔森（Robert Kurson），作家，先后毕业于威斯康星大学哲学系、哈佛大学法学院。曾在《滚石》杂志、《纽约时报杂志》和《时尚先生》上发表多篇获奖作品，他的《影子潜水者》（Shadow Divers）荣获2005年美国书商协会最有意义的非虚构作品奖。他现在居于芝加哥。

【作者简介】 罗伯特·库尔森（Robert Kurson），作家，先后毕业于威斯康星大学哲学系、哈佛大学法学院。曾在《滚石》杂志、《纽约时报杂志》和《时尚先生》上发表多篇获奖作品，他的《影子潜水者》（Shadow Divers）荣获2005年美国书商协会最有意义的非虚构作品奖。他现在居于芝加哥。

【作者简介】 罗伯特·库尔森（Robert Kurson），作家，先后毕业于威斯康星大学哲学系、哈佛大学法学院。曾在《滚石》杂志、《纽约时报杂志》和《时尚先生》上发表多篇获奖作品，他的《影子潜水者》（Shadow Divers）荣获2005年美国书商协会最有意义的非虚构作品奖。他现在居于芝加哥。

In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus' lunch. Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare and fragile commodity – a fleeting glimmer in the long night of cosmic history. That Earth should harbour not just one but ...(展开全部)

In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus' lunch. Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare and fragile commodity – a fleeting glimmer in the long night of cosmic history. That Earth should harbour not just one but ...(展开全部)