The Green Berets—a legendary corps of soldiers whose exploits made military history. But now, their very identity and role as a fighting force may be forever changed… Until the war in Iraq, Special Forces were the military’s counterinsurgency experts. Their specialty was going behind enemy lines and training insurgent forces. In Afghanistan, they toppled the Taliban by transf...(展开全部)

It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them?and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, available for the first time in paperback. These are men and women who changed our perception of the w...(展开全部)

迈克尔·夏邦（Michael Chabon，1963年—），当代美国作家，被誉为“塞林格接班人”。1963年生于华盛顿特区犹太裔家庭，先后就读于卡内基梅隆大学和匹兹堡大学，并在加州大学欧文分校获得创意写作硕士学位。夏邦集普利策小说奖得主，星云、雨果、轨迹、侧面四项科幻大奖得主，好莱坞编剧于一身，曾任电影《蜘蛛侠2》与《异星战场》的编剧。 首部长篇小说《匹兹堡的秘密》（The Mysteries of Pittsburgh）创下当时新人小说作品预付版税纪录的新高，1988年出版后，在《纽约时报》排行榜上连续停留十二周。1992年，夏邦出版小说集《大千世界》（A Model World and Other Stories），收录了发表于《纽约客》等刊物上的短篇作品。随后《奇迹小子》（Wonder Boys）的出版，确立了夏邦在美国文坛的地位。2000年出...(展开全部)

GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD is set in the Kingdom of Arran, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, A.D. 950. It tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soulmates, variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists - until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles that follow a bloody coup in t...(展开全部)

This is an epic visual guide to the most intrepid explorers in history. Written in association with the RGS, "Explorers" brings you stories of great courage, spirit and endurance and opens your eyes to how these expeditions have shaped the course of human history. Set out into the unknown with 80 of the world's greatest explorers and discover what motivated them to risk everyth...(展开全部)

Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the centuries, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers’ pockets that hasn’t changed much at all – the journal. The sketchbooks and journals presented here allow us the opportunity to share, through their own eyes and thoughts, the on-the-spot reactions of around 70 intrepid individuals as they journeyed into f...(展开全部)

Now in paperback—the internationally acclaimed novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions. In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time and various bodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britai...(展开全部)

The Case of the Speluncean Explorers by Lon Fuller first appeared in the Harvard Law Review in 1949. The fictitious case revolves around explorers who cannibalize a member of their team and the five Supreme Court judges who provide opinions on what should be done with them. In addition to these, Suber has added nine new opinions along feminist, communitarian, economic, construc...(展开全部)

The golden age of adventure stories returns with this splendidly designed, action-packed, globe-trotting tale that combines the bravura storytelling of Kipling with the irresistible style of The Adventures of Tintin. Behind the staid public rooms of an old world gentlemen’s club operates a more mysterious organization: The Explorers Guild, a clandestine group of adventurers who...(展开全部)