作者簡介 羅柏．卡普蘭Robert D. Kaplan 美國資深記者、地緣政治專家、旅行作家。過去三十年間，他擔任《大西洋》（The Atlantic）月刊記者，撰述可見於《華盛頓郵報》、《紐約時報》、《新共和》（The New Republic）、《國家利益》（The National Interest）、《外交事務》（Foreign Affairs）等重要報章雜誌，觀點經常引發相關政治、媒體、學術界討論。他也曾擔任美國智庫戰略預測公司（Stratfor）地緣政治分析主任、美國海軍學院（United States Naval Academy）客座教授、五角大廈國防政策委員會（Defense Policy Board）委員、華盛頓新美國安全研究中心（Center for a New American Security）資深研究員。《外交政策》（For...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·加尔法德 剑桥大学理论物理学博士，史蒂芬·霍金的亲传弟子，于2000—2006年师从霍金，从事有关黑洞信息悖论的研究。与史蒂芬·霍金及其女儿合著有儿童文学作品《乔治开启宇宙的秘密钥匙》，在全球45个国家出版发行。目前，加尔法德主要致力于向公众传播现代科学知识，并长期做客法国电视台和广播节目。

"If Ms. Frizzle were a physics student of Stephen Hawking, she might have written THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HAND, a wild tour through the reaches of time and space, from the interior of a proton to the Big Bang to the rough suburbs of a black hole. It's friendly, excitable, erudite, and cosmic." —Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times besteselling author of How Not To Be Wrong Quantum phy...(展开全部)

Kevin Brown is the owner of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps (http://www.geographicus.com), a generalist dealer in rare maps from all periods and at all value points. Kevin attended Bennington College, in Vermont, where he majored in “Pilgrimage.” Bennington fosters a “learn by doing” approach to academics, and Kevin has translated this philosophy to the map trade. He approaches ...(展开全部)

This non-fiction short-form eBook features content which is adapted from the audiobook Harry Potter: A History of Magic - inspired by the British Library exhibition of the same name.How to become invisible, to make someone fall in love with you, to transform into another creature: these are all things that people have believed in, yearned for, or feared, throughout history. Spells and charms have captured the imagination for hundreds of years. Warding off evil is also something that has concerned people throughout history. From werewolves to all manner of snakes in the wizarding world, you'd learn how to face a number of strange and frightening forces in Defence Against the Dark Arts classes.This eBook short examines the colourful characters and curious incidents of the real history of magic, and how they relate to the Hogwarts lesson subjects of Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts.The history of magic is as long as time and as wide as the world. In every culture, in every age, in every place and, probably, in every heart, there is magic.

Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How have these countries developed since then? In the Kyrgyzstani villages Erika Fatland meets victims of the widely ...(展开全部)

托比·威尔金森（Toby Wilkinson），生于1969年，现为剑桥大学克莱尔学院研究员。他是国际知名的埃及考古学者，已出版九本著作，其中《古埃及兴衰》（The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt）曾获黑塞尔-蒂尔特曼奖（Hessell-Tiltman Prize）。

托比·威尔金森（Toby Wilkinson），生于1969年，现为剑桥大学克莱尔学院研究员。他是国际知名的埃及考古学者，已出版九本著作，其中《古埃及兴衰》（The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt）曾获黑塞尔-蒂尔特曼奖（Hessell-Tiltman Prize）。

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sist...(展开全部)