A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist...When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betteron now lies in...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德·贝斯特1913年生于美国纽约，1940年开始发表小说，曾参与《超人》、《蝙蝠侠》等美国著名漫画剧本的编写。从20世纪50年代开始，随着一系列优秀短篇科幻小说的发表，特别是两部想像非凡的长篇科幻小说《被毁灭的人》、《群星，我的归宿》的出版，贝斯特成为美国科幻界最核心的明星作家。《被毁灭的人》获得了首届世界科幻大奖“雨果奖”，这部作品与《群星，我的归宿》一样，已经成为科幻史上的经典名著。1987年，贝斯特在美国宾夕法尼亚州去世。贝斯特的科幻小说情节紧张、刺激，充满了大师级科幻文学的杰出贡献，1987年，美国科幻与幻想小说协会授予他“星云奖”特别奖。贝斯特是该协会评选出的第九位“科幻大师”。

A new and fully updated edition of the original, bestselling survival handbook. Written by ex-SAS survival expert John 'Lofty' Wiseman, this book provides the most reliable, authoritative and respected survival information on the market. The original survival handbook -- the choice of both survival expert and novice, this book is the international bestseller which in the 20 ye...(展开全部)

Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at once philosophical, historical, social and art-critical. Developing the position...(展开全部)

Mindfulness practices anyone can do anytime. If you’ve heard about the many benefits of mindfulness practice but think you don’t have time for it in your busy life, prepare to be proven delightfully wrong. Mindfulness is available every moment, including right now, as Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays shows with these twenty-five mindfulness exercises that can be done anywhere. Use t...(展开全部)

Julie Y. Chu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the promise of an overseas destiny: neither the ever-increasing smuggling fee for succ...(展开全部)

作者 比尔·胡戈特伯 世界上最受追捧的公共演讲导师之一。他创建了主宰讲坛项目，突破了传统的训练方法，力图在短时间内提高商务人士的公共演讲技巧。从首席执行官到社会名流，从德国工程师到好莱坞代理人，比尔和他的世界级导师团队为来自五大洲的企业高管、行业执行官和商务人士提供了培训。培训项目采用多语言授课，项目包括交流话题、领导力和管理。 了解更多信息，请登录网站：www.owntheroom.com，或者关注比尔的推特账号：@billhoogterp。 译者 张 萌 北京师范大学英国语言文学与经济学双学位，保送直博攻读功能语言学与脑认知心理学博士学位。现任智能共享空间——“极北咖啡”创始人兼CEO，职场的黄埔军校——“极北学院”创始人兼院长，GYL创始人兼秘书长。 北京市工商业联合会会员、朝阳区青联委员、北京CBD团工委副书记、2008年北京奥运会火炬手、被...(展开全部)

"It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge." –Jack Canfield Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, 100+ million copies sold "This is a whole new ball game.  Highly recommended." –Dr. Stewart D. Friedman Adviser to Jack Welch and Former Vice ...(展开全部)

In his inspiring new book, You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader , Mark Sanborn, the author of the national bestseller The Fred Factor , shows how each of us can be a leader in our daily lives and make a positive difference, whatever our title or position. Through the stories of a number of unsung heroes, Sanborn reveals the keys each one of us can use to improve our orga...(展开全部)