麦克班恩一九二六年十月十五日出生在纽约市，他的父亲是一位邮局的员工。他的本名是萨尔瓦托雷•隆比诺（Salvatore Lombino）。隆比诺自第二次世界大战服役海军期间开始写作，之后以极优异的成绩毕业于亨特学院（Hunter College），并在那里担任教职。 在五十年的作家生涯里，他以亨特或麦克班恩之名写了许多畅销的小说、短篇作品、剧本和电影脚本（包括担任希区科克的名作《鸟》的编剧）。一九五六年，他以《恨警察的人》（Cop Hater）一书开始了八十七分局系列小说，将警察小说带入了一个全新、更加写实的新领域。故事背景是一个虚构的城市艾索拉（Isola，其蓝本为麦克班恩熟悉的纽约市），而本书亦为日后的大都市警察小说定下了一个模式：充满罪恶的大都市、多重故事发展、曲折的剧情、激烈的动作场景、贫民区的暴力描写、有计划的团队合作、写实的法医程序、以及外...(展开全部)

This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR for lunar landing, from the LK lunar module to the LOK lunar orbiter and versions tested in Earth's orbit. He asks whether these systems would have worked and examines how well they we...(展开全部)

This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR for lunar landing, from the LK lunar module to the LOK lunar orbiter and versions tested in Earth's orbit. He asks whether these systems would have worked and examines how well they we...(展开全部)

Copan in modern Honduras was one of the great cities of the Classic Maya. Abandoned to the rain forest for nearly a thousand years, it was rediscovered in the early 1800s. Now, two centuries later, an international team of scholars is solving the puzzle of Copan and the ancient Maya. William Fash, himself one of the key contributors to the recent breakthroughs, describes how de...(展开全部)