Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successf...(展开全部)

沃尔特・阿尔瓦雷斯（Walter Alvarez），美国国家科学院院士，美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校地质学和地球物理学教授。其父路易斯・阿尔瓦雷斯（Luis Alvarez）是该校物理学教授，曾因发现许多亚原子粒子而荣获1968年诺贝尔物理学奖。在很大程度上，查明天体撞击地球如何导致恐龙灭绝，应归功于这父子俩的密切合作。

沃尔特・阿尔瓦雷斯（Walter Alvarez），美国国家科学院院士，美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校地质学和地球物理学教授。其父路易斯・阿尔瓦雷斯（Luis Alvarez）是该校物理学教授，曾因发现许多亚原子粒子而荣获1968年诺贝尔物理学奖。在很大程度上，查明天体撞击地球如何导致恐龙灭绝，应归功于这父子俩的密切合作。

Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth all around the globe. Terrible environmental disasters ensued, including a giant ...(展开全部)

NOTHING EVER REALLY ENDS. The world of Watchmen collides with the DC Universe in a story that rewrites the past, present, and future of comics! Dr. Manhattan, a near-omnipotent being from the Watchmen universe, has been using his powers to rewrite the DC Universe--reshaping some heroes' histories, erasing other heroes altogether, and playingwith the fates of the good and evil a...(展开全部)

Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother but isn't sure she ever will be. Then, one day, Willa rece...(展开全部)

NOTHING EVER REALLY ENDS. The world of Watchmen collides with the DC Universe in a story that rewrites the past, present, and future of comics! Doomsday Clock finally gets the Absolute treatment! Dr. Manhattan, a near-omnipotent being from the Watchmen universe, has been using his powers to rewrite the DC Universe--reshaping some heroes' histories, erasing other heroes altogeth...(展开全部)

In this thoughtful and moving novel, four men find themselves inextricably bound together by their past histories. The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice, especially when he finds out the truth about his parentage. Through th...(展开全部)

The familiar call of the common cuckoo, “cuck-oo,” has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle: how does the cuckoo get away with laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and tricking them into raising young cu...(展开全部)

Beloved as the herald of spring, cuckoos have held a place in our affections for centuries. The oldest song in English celebrates the cuckoo's arrival, telling us that 'Sumer is icumen in'. But for many other birds the cuckoo is a signal of doom, for it is Nature's most notorious cheat. Cuckoos across the world have evolved extraordinary tricks to manipulate other species into ...(展开全部)