The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of b...(展开全部)

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With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. She writes of her precarious childhood and the refuge she took with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. She describes her resolve as a young gi...(展开全部)

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the g...(展开全部)

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the g...(展开全部)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - BEST GARDENING BOOKS OF 2020 - Sunday Times, Times 'Every page a joy.' Nigel Slater 'From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals. In a sense this book has been over sixty years in gestation. I have kept notebooks and j...(展开全部)

This is an autobiography of the prominent Soviet-American nuclear physicist written in a style similar to that of the later Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Georgy Gamow was born in 1904 in Odessa into a family of schoolteachers. He studied physics at the University of Odessa (then the University of Novorossia) and later at the University of Leningrad, where he befriended Lev...(展开全部)

A broad monograph devoted to one of the preeminent names in contemporary Japanese photography. Moriyama's photography is provocative, both for the form it takes (Moriyama's photographs may be dirty, blurry, overexposed or scratched) and for its content. The viewer's experience of the photo--whether it captures a place, a person, a situation or an atmosphere--is the central thru...(展开全部)

Selected from twenty years' worth of photographs by award-winning Magnum member Larry Towell, "The World From My Front Porch" is a collection of photographs of family life in northern Ontario-a romantic and beautiful rural idyll. This photo-essay is at the heart of a book that also, in separate sections of albums and found objects, explores both the history of Towell's front po...(展开全部)

布赖恩·斯威特克（Brian Switek），从小就是个恐龙迷，现在仍未走出“恐龙期”，并设法把玩泥巴和做獠牙怪兽践踏远古泥浆的白日梦变成了正当职业。为此，他举家搬到了恐龙化石丰富的犹他州，并成为一名自由职业者，在撰写博客、专栏和图书之余，作为志愿者参与恐龙挖掘和研究活动。这是他的第二本书，他的第一部作品是《书之于石》（Written in Stone）。 译者简介 邢立达，青年古生物学者，科普作家。1982年生于广东潮州，高中时期便创建中国大陆第一个恐龙网站。在加拿大艾伯塔大学取得古生物学硕士学位，师从著名古生物学家菲利普·柯里（电影《侏罗纪公园》的主角原型）；在中国地质大学（北京）取得古生物学与地层学博士学位。受美国《国家地理》资助。中国科普作家协会会员，出版与翻译了近百本古生物科普书籍，并多次在CCTV各频道为公众介绍古生物知识。 李锐媛，Up...(展开全部)