The story of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and threatened by a lynch mob in America's Deep South. A characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of a young white boy who repays on old favour by proving the farmer's innocence.

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster sha...(展开全部)

作者：艾萨克·阿西莫夫（1920-1992） 俄裔美籍作家，被全世界的读者誉为“神一样的人”；美国政府授予他“国家的资源与自然的奇迹”这个独一无二的称号，以表彰他在“拓展人类想象力”上做出的杰出贡献。 阿西莫夫是一个全知全能的作家，其著作几乎覆盖人类生活的一切方面，上天下海、古往今来、 从恐龙到亚原子到全宇宙无所不包，从通俗小说到罗马帝国史，从科普读物到远东千年历史，从圣经指南，到科学指南，到两性生活指南，每一部著作都朴实、严谨而又充满幽默风趣的格调，为了尽情发挥自己诙谐搞笑的天赋，他甚至还写过一本《笑话集》。 到了晚年，他开始变得“好色”，出版了一系列两性话题的“黄书”。 他提出的“机器人学三定律”是当代机器人研究的基本法则，他预言了今天的生物科技，预言了互联网时代的数字图书馆，预言了人类将进行太空殖民。 终其一生，阿西莫夫最引以为豪的则是：《银河...(展开全部)

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a ...(展开全部)

This is the much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy. "The next Hunger Games". (The Sunday Times). "Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ...one of dystopian fiction's masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World". (Daily Express). In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order. Some embrace the cha...(展开全部)

休•豪伊　Hugh Howey 一九七五年生于美国，深爱海洋，热爱读书和写作。他是得奖作品《莫莉•菲黛传奇》的作者，也就是他创造了超级畅销书《羊毛战记》系列作品。 二〇一一年夏天，他自助出版电子书《羊毛战记》，在网络上一炮而红，引爆读者狂热口碑，迅速窜上亚马逊电子书总榜第一位。随即《羊毛战记》的风潮蔓延至全球各国。各国图书版权纷纷售出。《异形》导演雷德利•斯科特一举收下电影版权，携手《辛德勒的名单》编剧史蒂夫•柴里安联手打造这部科幻史诗巨片。 休•豪伊和妻子在佛州的朱庇特岛生活，养了一条叫贝拉的狗。当他不在写作的时候，就在阅读或是拍照。

In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, a...(展开全部)

In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, a...(展开全部)

In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the material world, past and present, inherited from the nineteenth century, with which ...(展开全部)

Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick.