Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers, this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the ac...(展开全部)

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers ab...(展开全部)

"An exciting adventure into a ?what if¹ world. A brilliant work of creative imagination, one that rivals in conception, scope, and execution of plot Jean Auel¹s bestselling novels." ?The Nashville Banner Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of...(展开全部)

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and ...(展开全部)

盖尔•伦德斯塔德（Geir Lundestad），挪威最有影响力的历史学家之一，挪威奥斯陆大学国际关系史教授。主要研究领域为国际关系史、美欧关系、美国对外政策等。伦德斯塔德笔耕不辍、著述颇丰，就国际政治及美欧关系发表了海量的著述，是这一领域具有全球影响的主要学者。主要作 品有《20世纪的战争与和平》、《二战以来的美国与西欧》、《美帝国的崛起与衰落》、《冷战后的国际关系》、《大国的衰落》等。 吴征宇，历史学博士，中国人民大学国际关系学院教授，博士生导师。主要从事国际关系思想与理论、战略研究等方面的教学与研究，先后在英国杜伦大学政治学系、美国伊利诺伊大学（厄巴纳-香槟）东亚与太平洋研究中心、英国伦敦经济学院从事访学和博士后研究工作。已出版个人学术专著三部、译著 两部（合译），并在各类核心期刊及海外学术杂志上发表学术论文四十余篇。

尼古拉斯•迈耶（Nicholas Meyer，1945－） 美国著名作家、编剧、导演。其导演、编剧作品有《星际迷航》系列（Star Trek II 、IV &VI）、《两世奇人》、《挽歌》、《埃及王子》等。 迈耶写过三部福尔摩斯续作皆获得巨大成功，其中《百分之七溶液》（1974）卖出200万册，成为国际畅销书，荣获英国推理作家协会金匕首奖（1975），并入选美国推理作家协会（MWA）的百佳经典书单（第65位），在历史推理榜上排名第三（第一、第二分别是《时间的女儿》和《玫瑰的名字》）。他亲自操刀改编的电影《百分之七溶液》剧本曾获奥斯卡最佳原创剧本奖提名（1976）。 《西区恐怖》是迈耶福尔摩斯续作系列的第二本，曾连续十一周位列《纽约时报》畅销书榜单。

A direct, stylish, and engrossing story of a marvelous life well lived. Markham describes her childhood in Kenya and her experiences as a bush pilot in the 1930s -- evoking the landscapes, people, and wildlife in rich detail.