The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writersA legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published "Look Homeward, Angel," his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It gave the world proof of his g...(展开全部)

The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writersA legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published "Look Homeward, Angel," his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It gave the world proof of his g...(展开全部)

肯·鲍曼现居美国新墨西哥州的圣达菲，曾从事演艺工作长达十年，在影视剧中出镜。他已创作过四部小说，还身兼出版商、图书设计师等职。 读库御宅学团队引进的“头目战”（Boss Fight Books）书系诞生于美国，每本书均专注于对一部经典游戏作品的台前幕后进行详尽分析解读，执笔者多为业内资深人士。

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纳扬·昌达毕业于加尔各答著名的总统学院，获得历史学学位。他经常为《国际先驱论坛报》的观点版撰稿，也是布鲁金斯学会东北亚政策研究中心顾问委员会的成员，2005年获得了肖伦斯坦新闻奖。昌达还是“耶鲁全球在线”的创始人和主编。 译者简介 顾捷昕，安徽师范大学英语教师。从译数十年，一直坚持“英文理解，中文演绎”的原则。但是“演绎”实属走钢丝，必须在忠实于原著和圆通于译著之间找到平衡，唯有尽力而已。

Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing interconn...(展开全部)

The history of physics since the discovery of X-rays would be too simplistic a description of this book. Certainly it covers the historical period from the late nineteenth century to the present day, but the book attempts to relate not only what has happened over the last hundred years or so, but why it happened the way it did, what it was like for those scientists involved, a...(展开全部)

The Swire Group, started by John Swire in 1816, had its beginnings as a modest Liverpool import-export company, focused mainly on the textile trade. John Swire's sons, John Samuel (1825-1898) and William Hudson (1830-1884), took the firm overseas and it was John Samuel Swire in particular whose entrepreneurial instincts would be at the root of the firm's successes in years to c...(展开全部)

The Joy of Cooking grows with the times-it has a full roster of American and foreign dishes such as strudel, zabaglione, rijsttafel, and couscous, among many others. All the classic terms found on menus, such as Provençale, bonne femme, meuniére, and Florentine are not merely defined but fully explained so that readers can easily concoct the dish in their own home. ...(展开全部)

In the short time they existed, the indie rock band The Libertines kick-started a music Renaissance. Their grungy rock sound andsuch stunts as giving away albums for freeerased the barrier with fans and inspired thousands. Yet for all their musical acumen, the band made the most headlines for their apparent “live fast, die young” lifestyle and for lead man Pete Doherty’s drug a...(展开全部)