As we look back to the beginnings of the space race, 2009 is also the year for looking forward to humankind’s next step toward the stars. In the spirit of books that once imagined colonies on the moon, Patrick O’Brien has created a unique look at your first trip to Mars. Using the most upto- date designs and theories of what it will take to establish a base on Mars, you are of...(展开全部)

In this sneaky, silly picture book for fans of Oliver Jeffers and Jon Klassen, an intrepid--but not so clever--space explorer is certain he's found the only living thing on Mars A young astronaut is absolutely sure there is life to be found on Mars. He sets off on a solitary mission, determined to prove the naysayers wrong. But when he arrives, equipped with a package of cupcak...(展开全部)

New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose “lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk? —from “No Fly Zone” With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary tra...(展开全部)

Here are the stories of Marius, wealthy but lowborn, and Sulla, penniless though aristocratic and debauched - men of vision whose ambitions will lay the foundations of the most awesome empire ever known. Great events and mortal frailties, a vast and vivid cast of unforgettable men and women, kings, commoners, lovers, soldiers and senators are woven effortlessly into a rich dens...(展开全部)

This big, complex novel detailing the beginnings of the downfall of the Roman Republic is a startling change of pace for McCullough ( The Thorn Birds, LJ 5/1/77). Gaius Marius, an upstart New Man from the Italian provinces, and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a patrician Roman brought up in the slums of the Subura, are both ambitious enough to want to become First Man in Rome, despite ...(展开全部)

With extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in human history. When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and...(展开全部)

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亚历山大•蒲柏（Alexander Pope, 1688-1744）是十八世纪英国最伟大的诗人之一，也是英文世界被人引用第二多的诗人（仅次于莎士比亚），毕生著述繁富，尤擅“英雄双行体”（heroic couplet），将这种诗体发挥到了登峰造极的地步。除了讽刺史诗Dunciad（《呆厮国志》）之外，蒲柏还有三部代表作非常有价值，即《论批评》《云鬟劫》《论人》。这三部作品与《呆厮国志》一起，被认为是蒲柏的主要作品。 李家真，四川人，一九七二年生，曾任《中国文学》执行主编及《英语学习》副主编，现居重庆，专事文字。写有大量随笔，译有《泰戈尔英文诗集全集》《纪伯伦诗集》《丘吉尔传》《福尔摩斯探案全集》《王尔德小说童话全集》《培根随笔全集》《瓦尔登湖》《两河一周》《鳕鱼海岬》《缅因森林》《呆厮国志》等作品。

Pope in An Essay on Man produced 'what a scale is to a book of maps' and left, not a complete atlas, but only scattered fragments of it which we, as we can, using that scale and what hints we have, must piece together

亚历山大•蒲柏（Alexander Pope, 1688-1744）是十八世纪英国最伟大的诗人之一，也是英文世界被人引用第二多的诗人（仅次于莎士比亚），毕生著述繁富，尤擅“英雄双行体”（heroic couplet），将这种诗体发挥到了登峰造极的地步。除了讽刺史诗Dunciad（《呆厮国志》）之外，蒲柏还有三部代表作非常有价值，即《论批评》《云鬟劫》《论人》。这三部作品与《呆厮国志》一起，被认为是蒲柏的主要作品。 李家真，四川人，一九七二年生，曾任《中国文学》执行主编及《英语学习》副主编，现居重庆，专事文字。写有大量随笔，译有《泰戈尔英文诗集全集》《纪伯伦诗集》《丘吉尔传》《福尔摩斯探案全集》《王尔德小说童话全集》《培根随笔全集》《瓦尔登湖》《两河一周》《鳕鱼海岬》《缅因森林》《呆厮国志》等作品。