Ready to relive some of the most daring voyages of all time? Unfold these spectacular cross sections and explore fourteen historic journeys. Open this dynamic book and discover how the greatest explorers in history — from Marco Polo to Neil Armstrong — plunged into the unknown and boldly pieced together the picture of the world we have today. With the help of masterful cross ...(展开全部)

How did they do it? Find out how the greatest explorers in history pieced together the picture of our world that we now take for granted, in this dynamic unfolding cross-sections book! Join acclaimed illustrator Stephen Biesty and popular children's history writer Stewart Ross, as they themselves explore some of the boldest, most daring expeditions of all time, using fold-out p...(展开全部)

After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to...(展开全部)

This remarkable account tells the story of how, in its first two years, the First World War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, and cracked the foundations of the world. On a summer day in

康奈尔•伍尔里奇 Cornell Woolrich 一九零三年十二月四日诞生于纽约，悬疑小说大师、“黑色电影之父”，二十世纪二十年代在哥伦比亚大学时开始小说创作，视F.S.菲茨杰拉德为标杆。三十年代起转型尝试写作中短篇悬疑小说，四十年代起开始出版长篇作品，写出《后窗》、《深渊中的华尔兹》和《我嫁给了一个死人》等名作，成为推理界一代巨擘。 劳伦斯•布洛克 Lawrence Block 一九三八年六月二十四日生于纽约水牛城，当代美国冷硬派侦探小说大师，纽约犯罪行吟诗人。十九岁发表处女座《你不可错过》，之后将近五十年笔耕不辍，至今已有三十多部小说问世，“马修•斯卡德书系”、“雅贼书系”等为其赢得巨大声誉，获奖无数，被称为当代欧美侦探推理小说第一人。目前定居纽约。

After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to...(展开全部)

This remarkable account tells the story of how, in its first two years, the First World War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, and cracked the foundations of the world. On a summer day in

In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to ravage the international community in ways great and small.Drawing on his medical expereinces with men and women of various classes, races, nations, and religious beliefs, Reich refutes the still generally held notion that fascism is a specific characteristic of certain nationalitie...(展开全部)

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the 20th century's major cultural critics, a prolific scholar and a theorist of film. In this volume his writings on modern society are translated into English. This book is a celebration of the masses - their tastes, amusements, and everyday lives. Taking up themes of modernity, such as isolation and alienation, urban culture and the relation betw...(展开全部)

作者简介： 齐格弗里德·克拉考尔 1889年生于法兰克福，1966 年逝世于纽约。长期任《法兰克福报》编辑，直至1933年经法国流亡美国。出版著作有:《作为科学的社会学》《金斯特》《雇员们》《雅克o奥芬巴赫和他的时代的巴黎》《宣传和纳粹战争电影》《从卡里加利到希特勒》《精神卫星》《电影理论》《大众装饰》《历史：终结前的终事》《文集》。 译者简介： 孙柏 文学博士，现任教于中国人民大学文学院，主要研究领域：电影理论、中国电影史、中西戏剧文化交流、现代戏剧、文化研究等。近年来主要著作：《十九世纪西方演剧与晚清国人的接受》(2021)， 译著《我们时代的精神状况》(2018)。 薄一荻 南开大学外国语学院德语系讲师，博士毕业于北京大学外国语学院，博士论文题目为《爱情与理性的消逝--二十世纪两部德语<图兰朵>改编研究》。主要研究方向为中德文学文化关系、近现代...(展开全部)