Ethel Lilian Voynich was the girlfriend of Sidney Rosenblum, otherwise known in Britain as "Sidney Reilly" or "Reilly Ace of Spies." With Rosenblum's last £300 the couple went off to Italy. Here under the Mediterranean sun and under the influence of the Roman Catholic religion, which touched every facet of Italian life and awoke emotionally charged memories of his Catholic upb...(展开全部)

◎作者简介 黛博拉·克莱默（Deborah Cramer）是麻省理工学院的访问学者，以科学、自然和环境为主题进行写作。她现居马萨诸塞州格洛斯特一个盐沼边缘，每年在那里等待随着潮水而来的鲎，观看迁徙的滨鹬和苍鹭。 ◎译者简介 施雨洁，打小喜欢动物，热爱有关自然的一切。乐于与野生动物为伍，致力于提高圈养动物的动物福利。 杨子悠，毕业于昆士兰大学保育生物学专业。现就职于“勺嘴鹬在中国”机构，主要从事中国黄海地区的水鸟保护工作。

Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water's edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they will have completed a near-miraculous 9000-mile journey that began in Tierra del Fuego. Deborah Cramer followed these knots, whose...(展开全部)

'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North.' LEE CHILD `Tense and compelling.' James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island. The CIA recruits her twin sister t...(展开全部)

An exploration of the world’s most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey (Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes—literary, historical, psychological—that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece. Completed in the last months of the young Schubert’s life, Winterreise has come to be c...(展开全部)

An exploration of the world’s most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey (Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes—literary, historical, psychological—that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece. Completed in the last months of the young Schubert’s life, Winterreise has come to be c...(展开全部)

Many Americans have resisted the notion that their country is an imperial power. The idea seems to contradict the values of the Republic and its Founding Fathers. But in Empire of Debt, prominent financial analysts Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin argue passionately that not only is the United States an empire, but it is also one whose end is coming soon. Bonner and Wiggin are th...(展开全部)