An earnestly honest guy who doesn’t even grant pipe dreams to himself, physiologically incapable of letting a single contradiction go, in other words me, got dragged this June to a renowned academy for rich girls, no questions allowed, by the world’s strongest contractor. No matter how you put it, no matter how you spin it, there was probably no point to it. Because the case th...(展开全部)

An earnestly honest guy who doesn’t even grant pipe dreams to himself, physiologically incapable of letting a single contradiction go, in other words me, got dragged this June to a renowned academy for rich girls, no questions allowed, by the world’s strongest contractor. No matter how you put it, no matter how you spin it, there was probably no point to it. Because the case th...(展开全部)

Janey lived in the locked room.Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her be a whore.Otherwise ther was nothing.One day she found a pencial stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink"(her father,who is also her boyfriend,has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her...(展开全部)

A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist spends a year immersed in the high-pressure world of a competitive public high school—where teens chase 4.0 grades point averages, survive on as little as four hours of sleep, and chug lattes like water—and discovers the human story of what it takes to be a top student in America. Humes introduces a cast of passionate students, and touches on...(展开全部)

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver ev...(展开全部)

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver ev...(展开全部)

A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist spends a year immersed in the high-pressure world of a competitive public high school—where teens chase 4.0 grades point averages, survive on as little as four hours of sleep, and chug lattes like water—and discovers the human story of what it takes to be a top student in America. Humes introduces a cast of passionate students, and touches on...(展开全部)

本•罗宾逊和马库斯•赖利两位作者花费了多年时间进行《星际迷航》的研究和写作工作。他们曾是英国著名的《星际迷航档案》杂志的编辑和撰稿人，之后又担任《星际迷航志》杂志的编辑和撰稿人，这本杂志于1999至2003年间在美国发行。多年来，他们几乎采访过每一位和《星际迷航》电视剧集或电影相关的人员，撰写过《星际迷航》宇宙中的方方面面，从最初的进取号星舰直至最不为人知的外星飞船。 迈克•奥田因其富有未来色彩的控制面板和其它图形设计而著称，这些设计被多部《星际迷航》电影和电视剧集中的进取号所采用。在数码重制版的《星际迷航：原初系列》剧集中，他担任视觉效果制作人一职，并为《星际迷航》系列的编剧人员提供技术咨询。迈克和他的妻子邓妮思居住在洛杉矶，夫妇俩合著过数本关于《星际迷航》的图书。

本•罗宾逊和马库斯•赖利两位作者花费了多年时间进行《星际迷航》的研究和写作工作。他们曾是英国著名的《星际迷航档案》杂志的编辑和撰稿人，之后又担任《星际迷航志》杂志的编辑和撰稿人，这本杂志于1999至2003年间在美国发行。多年来，他们几乎采访过每一位和《星际迷航》电视剧集或电影相关的人员，撰写过《星际迷航》宇宙中的方方面面，从最初的进取号星舰直至最不为人知的外星飞船。 迈克•奥田因其富有未来色彩的控制面板和其它图形设计而著称，这些设计被多部《星际迷航》电影和电视剧集中的进取号所采用。在数码重制版的《星际迷航：原初系列》剧集中，他担任视觉效果制作人一职，并为《星际迷航》系列的编剧人员提供技术咨询。迈克和他的妻子邓妮思居住在洛杉矶，夫妇俩合著过数本关于《星际迷航》的图书。

A detailed guide to one of the world's most thrilling jobs. For anyone with the will to become a U.S. naval aviator, the future begins now. Marine fighter pilot and combat veteran Jay Stout shows us just what it takes to be a U.S. naval aviator in the twenty-first century, conducting us through every step of training as these dedicated, everyday heroes prepare for tomorrow's th...(展开全部)