A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of fo...(展开全部)

How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are reshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization. She rejects the idea that cities have either a singular urban culture or many different subcultures to argue that cultures are ...(展开全部)

This is Volume Three of the "Border Trilogy". In "Cities of the Plain", two men marked by the boyhood adventures of "All the Pretty Horses" and "The Crossing" now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached up...(展开全部)

In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.   The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juare...(展开全部)

多年以来，贸易城市英勇地对抗他们的敌人——恰斯人（Chalcedeans）。不过，如果不是依靠蓝龙婷黛丽雅（Tintaglia）的力量，他们无法抵御敌人的侵略。作为回报，商人们承诺帮助婷黛丽雅的那些流落在海中的海蛇们沿着雨野原河向上游迁徙，以找到一处安全的避难所，婷黛丽雅希望籍此可以光复她的种群。然而为时已晚，那些新孵化的小龙已经受到伤害变得赢弱不堪，随时可能死去。少数幸存者却不能使用它们的翅膀；无法飞翔，它们便不能狩猎，而且很容易被那些相信龙肉可以疗伤的人类猎人所伤害。 这时，婷黛丽雅却消失了，而商人们也厌倦了花费巨大的人力和财力去照顾那些无用的幼龙。议会担心如果停止供养幼龙，这些饥饿而遭到忽视的生物会变得狂暴——或者死在酸腐的河岸上。为了避免这样的灾难，幼龙们决定沿着这条危险的河流继续朔流而上，去寻找凯尔辛格拉（Kelsingra）——它们古老而...(展开全部)

"I asked the sailor what an Elephant looked like; he replied that it was like nothing on earth." "England, 1766: " After a long voyage from the East Indies, a ship docks in Bristol, England, and rumor quickly spreads about its unusual cargo--some say a mermaid is on board. A crowd forms, hoping to catch a glimpse of the magical creature. One crate after another is unpacked: a ...(展开全部)