Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby’s best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged ...(展开全部)

This "Norton Critical Edition of Kim" is now available for the first time in the European Union. Recognised as Rudyard Kipling's finest work, "Kim" was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is the 1901 first English edition, annotated for undergraduate readers. Background material includes selections from Kipling's autobiography, letters, short storie...(展开全部)

Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest. Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him, the lama seeks redemption f...(展开全部)

加布里埃尔·沃克（Gabrielle Walker），是一位极富天资、多次获奖的科学作家，已经出版了四部科普作品，包括《大气：万物的起源》。她是剑桥大学的化学博士，在BBC的多档新闻热点节目中担任嘉宾主持人，并担任《冰的秘密生活》（The secret Life of Ice ）和《每一次呼吸》（Every Breath We Take ）等多部BBC科学纪录片的策划人和片中解说人。她还是剑桥大学和普林斯顿大学的客座教员，也是《自然》杂志和《新科学家》杂志的特邀编辑。她目前居住在伦敦。

Drawing on psychology, family studies, sociology, communication studies, and neuroscience, Intimate Relationships is a comprehensive and current overview of relationship science, written in an engaging and accessible style. Supported by SmartBook™, McGraw-Hill Education’s adaptive and personalized reading experience, the eighth edition of this best-selling text includes hundred...(展开全部)

此书系英国诺贝尔文学奖得主吉普林的代表作，最早出版于20世纪初。故事是是俄罗斯与英国在中亚地区的政治冲突为背景而展开的。故事集中描写了1881年“第二次阿富汗战争”结束后，1893年“第三次阿富汗战争”前的比较平静的时间里的故事。故事的最吸引读者之处是作者对人物、文化及印度地区不同宗教的入木三分的刻画。也正是因为这一点，使得作者吉普林荣获诺贝尔文学奖。现在，此小说已成为20世纪“最受读者喜爱的百部小说”中的一部。

Celebrated in his own time as well as the present,Rembrandt's works have remarkable staying power. His output was prodigious, totalling around 600 paintings, 300 etchings and 2,000 drawings ranging from commissioned portraits to landscapes to religious allegories. In spite of his longstanding popularity, however, authoritative accounts of Rembrandt's life and work have been dif...(展开全部)

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation: At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In universit...(展开全部)

Kim Ji-young is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. Kim Ji-young is representative of her generation: At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In universit...(展开全部)

A new biography with all accessible paintings illustrated in colour. <br />Traces the life and career of the seventeenth-century painter, shows all of his works, and offers a fresh analysis of each painting.