Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the woman makes a four-month-...(展开全部)

It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine a...(展开全部)

比尔·布莱森，世界知名的非虚构作家，1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州，曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等刊物撰文。作品主要包括旅游类随笔、幽默独特的科普作品——比如《万物简史》、《母语》等等，横跨多种领域，皆为非学院派的幽默之作。他的作品诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝、整体上举重若轻，能让普通读者产生很强的认同感，不失为雅俗共赏的典范，深受读者喜爱，也获得很高的评价，每部作品均高踞美、英、加畅销排行榜前茅。 比尔·布莱森之所以能在二十世纪的旅游文学中占据一席之地，并成为目前世界公认的最有趣的旅游文学作家，是因为他擅长用不同的眼光来看待他所游历的世界，他真切地捕捉到了一个旅人的内心感受。自然地理、生活情趣、社会时态，布莱森信手拈来无不奇趣，使普通读者产生很强的认同感。他的尖刻加上他的博学，让他的文字充满了智慧、机敏和幽默...(展开全部)

After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill ...(展开全部)

麦家 继鲁迅、钱钟书、张爱玲后入选“企鹅经典文库”的当代作家。 . 1964年生于浙江富阳。 1986年写作，著有《人生海海》《风声》《解密》《暗算》等长篇小说。作品被译成三十多种语言。 2008年《暗算》获第七届茅盾文学奖。 2014年《解密》英文版被英国《经济学人》杂志评为“全球年度十佳小说”，2017年被英国《每日电讯报》选入“全球二十部间谍小说”。 2019年《人生海海》上市，首年发行量便破百万册。 . 《风声》是麦家代表作之一，作品具有奇异的想象力和独创性，人物内心幽暗神秘，故事传奇曲折，充满灵魂不可思议的力量。曾获《人民文学》杂志优秀长篇小说奖，麦家个人也因之获得华语文学传媒盛典年度小说家奖。根据小说改编的电影《风声》，掀起了中国当代谍战影视的狂潮，影响巨大。

Mark Richards是一位造诣颇深的作者和会议演讲者，他是金融服务行业的实战型SOA和企业体系结构师。除了发表大量文章之外，他还是《Java Transaction Design Strategies》（C4Media）的作者，以及《97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know》（O’Reilly）和《No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology Volumes 1 and 2》（Pragmatic Bookshelf）的丛集著者。他是消息传送机制、面向服务体系结构和事务管理领域的公认权威。Mark是NFJS软件研讨会（NFJS Software Symposium）系列的固定演讲者，并在世界各地的会议上发表演说。 Richard Monson-Haefel是《Enterprise...(展开全部)

Mark Richards是一位造诣颇深的作者和会议演讲者，他是金融服务行业的实战型SOA和企业体系结构师。除了发表大量文章之外，他还是《Java Transaction Design Strategies》（C4Media）的作者，以及《97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know》（O’Reilly）和《No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology Volumes 1 and 2》（Pragmatic Bookshelf）的丛集著者。他是消息传送机制、面向服务体系结构和事务管理领域的公认权威。Mark是NFJS软件研讨会（NFJS Software Symposium）系列的固定演讲者，并在世界各地的会议上发表演说。 Richard Monson-Haefel是《Enterprise...(展开全部)

The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an ideal introduction to recent work by the Group. Contributors discuss themes such as the relationship between the media and public opinion, the emergence of TV news formats and styles, and the relations between theory and method in media res...(展开全部)

Hundreds of facts are waiting to be unearthed in this latest book from Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski, the duo behind Maps. Dive below the surface and find out what happens under earth and under sea—from early submarines and deep-sea life to burrowing animals and man-made tunnels.

Hundreds of fascinating facts are waiting to be unearthed in this latest book from Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski, the creative duo behind the bestselling Maps. Dive below the surface, and find out what happens under the earth and under the water. From early submarines and deep-sea life, to burrowing animals and man-made tunnels - you will never look at the world in the same...(展开全部)