Tall, soft-spoken Natsume used to work with troubled kids at a reformatory but resigned mid-career to become a police detective. Those who’ve known him wonder why the gentlest of men, whose vocation had been to have faith in humans, now doubts them professionally. The truths of his path unfold over seven carefully crafted chapters, each of which stands on its own as a short sto...(展开全部)

The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime one Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Fortunately, the robbers meet their match in brave Officer Pugh who leaps into action and arrests the villains - all except Grandma Swagg who manages to get away.

贝丝·夏匹罗（Beth Shapiro），美国进化分子生物学家，1976年生于宾夕法尼亚州艾伦镇。她是加州大学圣克鲁兹分校副教授，专业从事古DNA的研究分析，有论著多种，文章见于英国《自然》和美国《科学》周刊。2009年获麦卡瑟天才奖（MacArthur Fellowship）。 译者夏季：本名夏志，生于1984年，科普专栏作家和翻译者。曾留美攻读生物医学博士学位，现供职于某大型跨国企业。已出版书籍近十部，并获全国优秀科普作品奖、广东省科普作品创作大赛冠军等多项荣誉。

Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to anticipa...(展开全部)

贝丝·夏匹罗（Beth Shapiro），美国进化分子生物学家，1976年生于宾夕法尼亚州艾伦镇。她是加州大学圣克鲁兹分校副教授，专业从事古DNA的研究分析，有论著多种，文章见于英国《自然》和美国《科学》周刊。2009年获麦卡瑟天才奖（MacArthur Fellowship）。 译者夏季：本名夏志，生于1984年，科普专栏作家和翻译者。曾留美攻读生物医学博士学位，现供职于某大型跨国企业。已出版书籍近十部，并获全国优秀科普作品奖、广东省科普作品创作大赛冠军等多项荣誉。

Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. Drug and violent crime are surging, and Baltimore will reach its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people. Fac...(展开全部)

Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. Drug and violent crime are surging, and Baltimore will reach its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people. Fac...(展开全部)

In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors. In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles thi...(展开全部)