Welcome to an amusement park unlike any you’ve seen before. With this eye-popping, astounding debut, Mark Rogalski guides us through an amazing menagerie of one-of-a-kind attractions. From Alligators in the Air, through to the Zebra Zeppelin, the reader is provided with an elegant ticket that admits them onto rides at turns thrilling, mysterious, spectacular—and always breathta...(展开全部)

汉斯-尤尔根·马萨夸依( 1926—2013 )，德裔美国记者和作家,1948年移居利比里亚，1950年移居美国，居住在美国新奥尔良，美国《乌木》杂志社的主编，2013年去世。

Nancy Kress, one of the leading writers of science fiction today, has written a number of provocative and award-winning stories and novels. But it is with the Beggars trilogy that she has reached the pinnacle of her success. Developed out of her Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," the trilogy was launched with <i>Beggars in Spain</i><b> </b>(1993), also a...(展开全部)

Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she fo...(展开全部)

格雷厄姆·艾利森 美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院贝尔福科学与国际事务中心的主任，哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院的创始院长，美国著名国际政治问题研究专家。他曾担任助理国防部长，并为从里根到奥巴马的每一位总统的国防部长提供咨询服务。 著有《决策的本质：解释古巴导弹危机》 《核恐怖主义：可预防的终极灾害》 《李光耀论中国与世界》等书。两次获得美国国防部公共服务特别奖章，这是非军事人员所能获得的最高荣誉。 译者： 陈定定：暨南大学国际关系学院教授、博士研究生导师，21世纪丝绸之路研究院副院长，著名社会智库海国图智研究院创始人兼院长，曾任国际研究学会（ISA）亚太区副会长（2014-2018年），现兼任德国全球公共政策研究所客座研究员、美国霍普金斯大学SAIS学院客座研究员，著名国际问题英文杂志《外交官》的专栏作家。主要研究领域为国际关系理论、中美关系、中国外交和国际公众舆论...(展开全部)

The reason is Thucydides’s Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: ‘It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.’ Over the past...(展开全部)

Uber is one of the most fascinating and controversial businesses in the world, both beloved for its elegant ride-hailing concept and heady growth and condemned for CEO Travis Kalanick's ruthless pursuit of success at all cost. Despite the company's significance to the on-demand economy and the mobile revolution, and the battle for global dominance that Kalanick is waging agains...(展开全部)

Ted Gioia is a music historian and the author of eleven books, including How to Listen to Jazz. His three previous books on the social history of music—Work Songs, Healing Songs, and Love Songs—have each been honored with the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. Gioia's wide-ranging activities as a critic, scholar, performer, and educator have established him as a leading g...(展开全部)