A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now. From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transconti...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontin...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now. From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transconti...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontin...(展开全部)

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain exp...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗•奈特（Christopher Knight）从事广告和营销工作已长达30多年，是顾客心理学和市场研究方面的专家。他曾花7年时间研究共济会仪式(Freemasonic rituals)的起源。后来，似乎是在不经意间，奈特开始了写作生涯。迄今为止，他和罗伯特•洛马斯（Robert Lomas）已合著出版4本书。奈特的处女作《海勒姆密钥》（The Hiram Key）于1996年出版，甫一面市，便位列英国畅销书榜单前十名，并连续保持8周之久。此书已经译成37种语言，全球总销售量高达100多万册，在数个国家成为畅销书。现在，奈特把时间和精力集中于两个方面：一是担任营销顾问；二是为写书进行历史研究。 阿兰•巴特勒（Alan Butler）是执业工程师，但一直痴迷历史，是占星术和天文学方面的专家。1990年以来，他一直在研究古代文化和多神教，并对不同...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗•奈特（Christopher Knight）从事广告和营销工作已长达30多年，是顾客心理学和市场研究方面的专家。他曾花7年时间研究共济会仪式(Freemasonic rituals)的起源。后来，似乎是在不经意间，奈特开始了写作生涯。迄今为止，他和罗伯特•洛马斯（Robert Lomas）已合著出版4本书。奈特的处女作《海勒姆密钥》（The Hiram Key）于1996年出版，甫一面市，便位列英国畅销书榜单前十名，并连续保持8周之久。此书已经译成37种语言，全球总销售量高达100多万册，在数个国家成为畅销书。现在，奈特把时间和精力集中于两个方面：一是担任营销顾问；二是为写书进行历史研究。 阿兰•巴特勒（Alan Butler）是执业工程师，但一直痴迷历史，是占星术和天文学方面的专家。1990年以来，他一直在研究古代文化和多神教，并对不同...(展开全部)

Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legisla...(展开全部)

Manu Karuka is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College.

Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of such complexity nor so regularly revisits those memories for happiness, safety, and to accomplish complex tasks. Human civilization continues because we are able to pass along memories from one person to another, from one generation to the next. The Guardian of All Things is scientific history that ...(展开全部)