Between Two Kingdoms meets Wild. In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from dementia, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sen...(展开全部)

伊莎贝拉‧博德（1831-1904），出身于英国西部的牧师家庭，青少年时饱受脊背病痛折磨，依照医嘱赴美加地区旅行。四十岁时，她前往澳洲旅行，继而造访夏威夷。次年她来到落基山，她描述落基山绝美风光的书信集结成这本《山旅书札》。之后她前往日本的北海道及马来半岛的土著区，完成《日本僻径》和《金色的半岛居民》。丈夫去世后，博德来到伊朗沙漠、库尔德斯坦高地、朝鲜半岛，以及中国内陆等偏远地区旅行。七十岁那年，她完成了最后一次旅行，骑着苏丹王送她的一匹黑牡马造访摩洛哥。

伊莎贝拉‧博德（1831-1904），出身于英国西部的牧师家庭，青少年时饱受脊背病痛折磨，依照医嘱赴美加地区旅行。四十岁时，她前往澳洲旅行，继而造访夏威夷。次年她来到落基山，她描述落基山绝美风光的书信集结成这本《山旅书札》。之后她前往日本的北海道及马来半岛的土著区，完成《日本僻径》和《金色的半岛居民》。丈夫去世后，博德来到伊朗沙漠、库尔德斯坦高地、朝鲜半岛，以及中国内陆等偏远地区旅行。七十岁那年，她完成了最后一次旅行，骑着苏丹王送她的一匹黑牡马造访摩洛哥。

This non-fiction short-form eBook features content which is adapted from the audiobook Harry Potter: A History of Magic - inspired by the British Library exhibition of the same name.If you've gazed into the crystal ball you'll have seen that you are about to enter a place of prediction and fortune-telling that makes up the subject of Divination in the real and wizarding world. From the use of bones and shells thousands of years ago, to peering into teacups in the parlours of Victorian England, for millennia people have strived to see what fate and fortune holds. Trying to read our destinies, the study of the night sky has fascinated people for centuries, from the star atlases of ancient China to the celestial globes of 17th-century Venice. Astronomy holds a special place in the wizarding world as a source of inspiration and identity for Harry Potter's life at Hogwarts, and beyond.This eBook short examines the colourful characters and curious incidents of the real history of magic, and how they relate to the Hogwarts lesson subjects of Divination and Astronomy.The history of magic is as long as time and as wide as the world. In every culture, in every age, in every place and, probably, in every heart, there is magic.

From Publishers Weekly In this engrossing memoir, Saks, a professor of law and psychiatry at the University of Southern California, demonstrates a novelist's skill of creating character, dialogue and suspense. From her extraordinary perspective as both expert and sufferer (diagnosis: Chronic paranoid schizophrenia with acute exacerbation; prognosis: Grave), Saks carries the rea...(展开全部)

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she’s an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis -- and suffering the effects of her illness throughout her life. Saks was only eight, and living an otherwise idyllic childhood in ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly In this engrossing memoir, Saks, a professor of law and psychiatry at the University of Southern California, demonstrates a novelist's skill of creating character, dialogue and suspense. From her extraordinary perspective as both expert and sufferer (diagnosis: Chronic paranoid schizophrenia with acute exacerbation; prognosis: Grave), Saks carries the rea...(展开全部)

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she’s an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis -- and suffering the effects of her illness throughout her life. Saks was only eight, and living an otherwise idyllic childhood in ...(展开全部)

An astonishingly brave memoir of life in prostitution and its lingering influence on a woman’s psyche and life. “The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran’s Paid For fuses the memoirist’s lived poignancy with the philosopher’s conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides all anyone need...(展开全部)

托尼·海依 微软研究院副总裁，物理学家，计算机领域知名学者。曾出版多部学术专著，累计发表论文150多篇，在专业领域有较强的学术影响力。热衷于计算机科普事业，曾受理查德·费曼委托，为其整理计算机系列讲座文稿，结集出版。个人畅销科普作品包括《新量子宇宙》《爱因斯坦的镜子》《第四范式》等。 奎利·帕佩 英国南安普顿大学信息技术创新中心高级研究员，主要研究方向为高性能计算、事件模拟和数值算法。