切斯特•海姆斯（Chester Himes，1909—1989） 著名黑人侦探小说家，生于美国密苏里州的杰斐逊城。一九二八年的冬天，他因持枪抢劫被判入狱，刑期二十年。服刑期间，海姆斯开始创作短篇小说。一九五八年创作的侦探小说处女作获法国警探小说文学奖大奖。他的小说中充斥着暴力、血腥与色情，大都涉及种族问题，并有多部作品被改编成电影。 海姆斯对冷硬派推理小说产生了深远影响，为纪念他，特在美国设立了切斯特•海姆斯侦探小说奖（Chester Himes Mystery Awards），专授给美国黑人侦探小说作家。

Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle. The first of Chester Himes' novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Di...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice In the tradition of the best writing on medicine, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those...(展开全部)

Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be crossed: Apollo the sun god. From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and my...(展开全部)

In 1969, mankind set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin `Buzz' Aldrin and Michael Collins carried the fire for all of humankind. Backed by the brightest minds in engineering and science, the three boarded a rocket and flew through the void - just to know that we could. In Apollo, Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins unpack the urban legends, the gossip and the speculat...(展开全部)

The definitive book about the Apollo missions: extraordinary, newly restored images from the NASA archives In a frozen vault in Houston sits the original NASA photographic film of the Apollo missions. For half a century, almost every image of the Moon landings publicly available was produced from a lower-quality copy of these frozen originals. Over the last few years image rest...(展开全部)

The definitive book about the Apollo missions: extraordinary, newly restored images from the NASA archives In a frozen vault in Houston sits the original NASA photographic film of the Apollo missions. For half a century, almost every image of the Moon landings publicly available was produced from a lower-quality copy of these frozen originals. Over the last few years image rest...(展开全部)

劳伦斯·莱特（Lawrence Wright）是《纽约客》的特约撰稿人，发表过一部小说《上帝的最爱》以及六部非小说类的著作，包括《在新世界》（In the New World）、《圣徒和罪人（Saints and Sinners）》、《记住撒旦》（Remembering Satan）、《巨塔（The Looming Tower）以及《走向清醒》（Going Clear）。他还是一个编剧和剧作家。他和他妻子一直住在德克萨斯州奥斯丁市。

劳伦斯·莱特（Lawrence Wright）是《纽约客》的特约撰稿人，发表过一部小说《上帝的最爱》以及六部非小说类的著作，包括《在新世界》（In the New World）、《圣徒和罪人（Saints and Sinners）》、《记住撒旦》（Remembering Satan）、《巨塔（The Looming Tower）以及《走向清醒》（Going Clear）。他还是一个编剧和剧作家。他和他妻子一直住在德克萨斯州奥斯丁市。

If you are a Networking professional aspiring to take the CISSP examination and obtain the coveted CISSP certification (considered to be the Gold Standard in Information Security personal certification), then this is the book you want.This book assumes that you already have sufficient knowledge in all 10 domains of the CISSP CBK by way of work experience and knowledge gained from other study books.