The FBI doesn't believe it. The Governor wants the problem to disappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: an extreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how to set off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California, time is running out. Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turned cult leader turned homicidal mastermind....(展开全部)

The FBI doesn't believe it. The Governor wants the problem to disappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: an extreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how to set off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California, time is running out. Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turned cult leader turned homicidal mastermind....(展开全部)

A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth-cruel precisely because it is so human. Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Apparent first German mass-market paperback edition (not stated). Translated by Caesar Rymarowicz. There's no copyright assignment, only a statement that the edition was licensed by the publishing house Nymphenburger. The month of publication ('April 1974') is stated on the copyright page. The final page of the novel (p. 292) is unnumbered. The cover artist is credited on the c...(展开全部)

✍️斯坦尼斯瓦夫•莱姆（1921—2006），波兰著名作家、哲学家。当过汽车技工，终获医学博士学位，创立波兰宇航协会。代表作有《索拉里斯星》《未来学大会》《惨败》等。作品多聚焦哲学主题，探讨科技对人类的影响、智慧的本质、外星交流，以及人类认知的局限等。1996年被授予波兰国 家奖章“白鹰勋章”，波兰第一颗人造卫星以他的名字命名。 ✍️莱姆是20世纪欧洲最多才多艺的作家之一，安东尼•伯吉斯称赞他是“当今活跃的作家中最智慧、最博学、最幽默的一位”，库尔特•冯内古特赞扬他“无论是语言的驾驭、想象力还是塑造悲剧角色的手法，都非常优秀，无人能出其右”。被译成52种语言，全球畅销4000余万册。

A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth-cruel precisely because it is so human. Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller uses his evocative powers and the insight gained by four years in the forests of the Wolong and Tangjiahe panda reserves to document the pli...(展开全部)

Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.

Jennet is the daughter of the Witchfinder of Mercia and East Anglia. Whilst her father roams the countryside in search of heretics, Jennet is left behind to be schooled by her aunt Isobel in the New Philosophy principally expounded by Isaac Newton. But her aunt's style of scientific enquiry soon attracts the attention of the witchfinders. To save her aunt, Jennet travels to Cam...(展开全部)