<i>Coyote</i> marks a dramatic new turn in the career of Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Chronospace. Epic in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of plausible events, it tells the brilliant story of Earth's first interstellar colonists-and the mysterious planet that becomes their home.

A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film, Interstellar, from executive producer and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne. Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the sci...(展开全部)

Felipe Fernández-Armesto為知名歷史學者，著作豐富，已翻譯成二十二種語言，包括暢銷書Civilizations、Millennium、《食物的歷史》、《真實、真相、真理》、《改變世界的觀念》。他自一九八三年起在牛津大學現代史系擔任教職，目前也是倫敦大學瑪麗女王學院的歷史學和地理學教授。他以海洋與殖民史的著作贏得不少榮譽，包括一九九七年英國國家海洋博物館的凱氏獎章和一九九九年的約翰．卡特．布朗獎章。各書評媒體對他讚譽不斷，《文學評論》說他是世界上最好的歷史學家之一，《紐約時報》也為文稱評論者將他比擬為吉朋、湯恩比、布勞岱爾等歷史學大師。

菲利普·费尔南德兹-阿迈斯托是世界知名学者和作家。菲利普·费尔南德兹一阿迈斯托，现任美国圣母大学威廉·P．雷诺兹历史学讲座教授。他在牛津大学取得硕士和博士学位后，曾长期留校任教。他还获得了拉特罗布大学和洛斯安第斯大学荣誉博士学位。他多次出国访学，2000年担任伦敦大学玛丽女王学院全球环境史讲座教授；2005-2009年，担任塔夫斯大学阿斯图里亚斯王子讲座教授；他还担任过荷兰人文与社会科学高级研究院研究员、明苏达大学太平洋联盟客座教授。他是芝加哥大学出版社制图学史编辑委员会成员、莱顿大学海外史研究编辑委员会成员、《社会、历史、旅行比较研究》以及《全球史》杂志编辑，他还是哈克卢特协会顾问委员、国际笔会英国理事会成员，以及国际笔会文学基金会主席。他近来荣获的奖项包括：世界历史学会很好图书奖（2007），西班牙天文协会颁发的2005年度重量研究奖，西班牙地理...(展开全部)

"A brilliant and readable book...a rich study of humankind's restless spirit."—Candice Millard, New York Times Book Review Greeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new standard. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, o...(展开全部)

A compulsively readable literary masterpiece, A Reunion of Ghosts is the shared confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves at the end of the 20th century, honoring the dark legacy that has haunted their extraordinary family for decades How do three sisters write a single suicide note? In the waning days of 1999, the Alter sisters—Lady, Vee, and Delph—fina...(展开全部)

The national bestselling story of Earth's first interstellar colonists-and the mysterious planet that becomes their home.

Coyote (2002) is a science fiction novel by American writer Allen Steele, the first in a series of eight books. It is a fixup of several of Steele's previously-published short stories, beginning with Stealing Alabama in the January 2001 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction. The series has been noted for the constructed Lemarean Calendar the author created for its inhabited extraso...(展开全部)

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra—spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling—and her children. “I have been acquainted with the smell of death.” So begins Clytemnestra’s tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband ...(展开全部)

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.