- Why are most people right-handed? Do left-handers behave differently from right-handers? - Why is the heart on the left-hand side of the body? - Why is each side of the human brain so different? - Why do the British drive on the left? Why do European languages go from left to right, while Arabic ones read the other way? - Why do clocks go clockwise? - What is the relationship...(展开全部)

As aces and jokers throughout the country gather in Atlanta for a crucial Democratic convention (Ace in the Hole: Wild Cards, 6, LJ 2/15/90 ), a private investigator and a vigilante in New York City stalk the elusive killer of the notorious joker known as Chrysalis. Continuing the saga of a modern world profoundly changed by the "wild card virus," this novel blends fast-moving ...(展开全部)

托马斯•莱希涅夫斯基 Thomas Blisniewski 1960年出生于德国亚琛，大学期间研究艺术史、考古学和哲学，1992年获得博士学位。他曾经从事古迹保护和博物馆研究员等工作，现于科隆大学纺织学院科隆编织与刺绣专业任教。 宁宵宵，毕业于北京外国语大学德语系，取得外交学院国际关系学硕士学位，现居北京，媒体从业。译有《写作的女人危险》、《女人与珍珠》、《女人与女红》、《时间终于多出来了》、《身陷古罗马》、《主人与狗》（托马斯•曼）、《艾斯塔的绿洲》（卡尔•麦）、《德语时刻》、《小熊比尔和大熊爸爸》、《我真的喜欢你》、《老鼠冤家》、《那些让孩子感到幸福的事儿》等。

A labor of love and enthusiasm as well as deep scientific knowledge, Right Hand, Left Hand takes the reader on a trip through history, around the world, and into the cosmos, to explore the place of handedness in nature and culture. Chris McManus considers evidence from anthropology, particle physics, the history of medicine, and the notebooks of Leonardo to answer questi...(展开全部)

The role of large-scale business enterprise--big business and its managers--during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sector...(展开全部)

The “most clever plotter on the planet”(Publishers Weekly) Jeffery Deaver returns in this twisty new thriller, as forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs track a criminal with a bizarre and catastrophic m.o.—toppling the construction cranes in New York City. When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and injury...(展开全部)

The Dyer’s Hand is the best of W. H. Auden’s critical writings, chosen by himself, including his famous lectures as Professor Poetry at Oxford. In the early 1950s Auden began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together with newly-written notes and aphorisms. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford,...(展开全部)

In this contemporary classic Chester Raccoon seeks love and reassurance from his mother as he ventures out into the world to attend his very first day of school.