At the core of the atom, enshrouded by electrons, lies the nucleus. The discovery of the nucleus transformed the past century and will revolutionize this one. Though many persons associate nuclear physics with weapons of mass destruction, it is an exciting, cutting-edge science that has helped to save lives through innovative medical technologies, such as the MRI. In nuclear ...(展开全部)

A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in ...(展开全部)

A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in ...(展开全部)

像李黎这样一个旅人，爱文学、爱电影，视人生为不能回头的旅程，最爱读人生这部大书，亦爱观世界各地影像。于是有了这本以旅行与阅读为主线的精选随笔集。 卷一手倦拋书午梦长：是阅读和观影方面的散文。这些散文往往都由一书一事而起，带出如万花筒般的丰盛景象，贯穿其中的是作者深深的文学情意结。幼年爱过的童话、博尔赫斯的图书馆、《红楼梦》中的香气袭人……尽可在她笔下娓娓道来。 卷二众里寻他千百度：是作者多年来不断追寻故事故人的经历。故事故人当然与文学、电影相关。这些追寻有些是为了完成心愿的刻意而为，如刻意寻找法国电影《红气球》的拍摄地，寻找张爱玲旧居乃至重旅三毛曾经的居所等等，有些却是巧合，世界之大，巴黎、威尼斯、旧金山、京都……处处有奇遇。 卷三一朝看尽洛阳花：是作者作为资深旅人，旅游的经历及由此生发的感悟。她乐于与读者分享的不仅仅是风光名胜，更是一些如“威尼斯夜...(展开全部)

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily damaged during the first half of the twentieth century, and much of the work housed there was lost to the international art market...(展开全部)

Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found. Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the p...(展开全部)

On a gray September day, on an island off the coast of Sweden, six -year -old Jens Davidsson ventured out of his backyard, walked out into a fog, and vanished….Now twenty years have passed, and in this magnificent debut novel of suspense—a runaway bestseller in Sweden—the boy’s mother returns to the place where her son disappeared, drawn by a chilling package sent in the mail… ...(展开全部)

Two Frenchmen, an idea, and a blank piece of paper. That's how it started. Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg are the creators of the multi-award-winning and much-loved musicals Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre and now an exciting new work The Pirate Queen. Les Miserables alone has been seen by over 53 million people. The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg ...(展开全部)

Most of us the world over do not know much about the nuclear experience, let alone the 70,000 Korean victims of the atomic bomb or their arts of life and survival. Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of "Korea's Hiroshima" gives new insight into the overlooked and abused people who have lived and died on the margins of East Asian modernity. This book is an ethnography of Korean fi...(展开全部)