Archaeologist Brandon Thackery and his rival Miles 'Klicks' Jordan fulfill a dinosaur lover's dream with history's first time-travel jaunt to the late Mesozoic. Hoping to solve the extinction mystery, they find Earth's gravity is only half its 21st century value and dinosaurs that behave very strangely. Could the slimey blue creatures from Mars have something to do with both?

This short biography is taken from: Shanghai. 1949: The end of an era, New York, New Amsterdam Books, NY, 1989, p. 9. Obituary on CBC Canada: "Of Indian descent but born in Shanghai in September 1911, Tata picked up photography after completing his studies at the University of Hong Kong in the late 1930s. After purchasing a small format camera, he began capturing street scenes ...(展开全部)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

* Why does masculinity seem obvious yet prove impossible to define? * What has caused the erosion of men's power and will progress towards sexual equality continue? * How political is the personal? This book explains why both popular and academic commentators have found it impossible to define masculinity. It is because no such thing exists. Re-examining the ideas of thinkers ...(展开全部)

Nigel Strangeways was employed to investigate a minor mystery in the offices of the publishing house of Wenham and Geraldine. Someone had maliciously tinkered with the proofs of an autobiography in which a retired and outspoken General had savagely attacked one of his colleagues. Consequently the firm was threatened with a disastrous libel suit. Strangeways had not made much he...(展开全部)

German economic performance has astonished the world. At the turn of the century, Germany had been written off as the sick man of Europe. No more. Even as most of its European neighbors and OECD trading partners have struggled in the face of a turbulent global economy, the German economy has thrived. How does Germany do it? What is the secret? In The Seven Secrets of Germany, a...(展开全部)

From visionary Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tom Siebel comes a penetrating examination of the new technologies that are disrupting business and government—and how organizations can harness them to transform into digital enterprises. The confluence of four technologies—elastic cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things —writes Siebel, is fundam...(展开全部)

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nat...(展开全部)

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nat...(展开全部)