AN EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FINALIST The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her...(展开全部)

The city is often depicted as a sort of self-organizing chaos. This collection of essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, makes the case for the opposite hypothesis: The city is always the result of political intention, often in the form of specific architectural projects. Cities are shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions. This thesis is s...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly) new science-based thriller from the bestselling author of The Martian. “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sol...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly) new science-based thriller from the bestselling author of The Martian. “An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today “If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post Ryland Grace is the sol...(展开全部)

The city is often depicted as a sort of self-organizing chaos. This collection of essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, makes the case for the opposite hypothesis: The city is always the result of political intention, often in the form of specific architectural projects. Cities are shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions. This thesis is s...(展开全部)

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本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” ( Kirkus Reviews ), here is the enthralling tale of five...(展开全部)

伍连德（Wu Lien-teh，1879-1960），祖籍广东台山，生于槟榔屿。剑桥大学医学博士。1908年归国任天津陆军军医学堂帮办，1910-1911年为防治鼠疫出任东三省防疫总医官，扑灭了鼠疫大流行。1937年返回马来亚，定居怡保行医为业。主要著作有《肺鼠疫论述》《鼠疫概论》《霍乱概论》《中国医史》等。 译者简介： 程光胜， 1958年毕业于北京大学生物系，中国科学院微生物研究所研究员，曾任中国微生物学会秘书长。编著有《显微镜下的生命世界》《小生物，大世界》《方心芳传》等。 马学博，哈尔滨医科大学医史学教研室副研究员，主要从事东北近代防疫史研究。 王丽凤，新加坡电视制作人，美国印第安纳大学大众传播系毕业。电视纪录片《伍连德博士传》的总导演、总监制。

One of our most original thinkers addresses the scientific world's premier question: What is the nature of consciousness? In recent years the nature of consciousness-our immediately known experiences-has taken its place as the most profound problem that science faces. Now in this brilliant and thoroughly accessible new book Colin McGinn takes a provocative position on this per...(展开全部)