In the growing debate over eco-friendly living, it seems that everything is as bad as everything else. Do you do more harm by living in the country or the city? Is it better to drive a thousand miles or take an airplane? In NO IMPACT MAN, Colin Beavan tells the extraordinary story of his attempt to find some answers - by living for one year in New York City (with his wife and y...(展开全部)

Abortion, affirmative action, the "right to die", pornography and free speech, homosexulaity and sex discrimination; as eagerly as the Supreme Court's rulings on these issues are awaited and as intently as they are studied, they never seem to settle anything once and for all. But something is settled in the process - in the incremental approach - as Cass Sunstein argues in this...(展开全部)

Abortion, affirmative action, the "right to die", pornography and free speech, homosexulaity and sex discrimination; as eagerly as the Supreme Court's rulings on these issues are awaited and as intently as they are studied, they never seem to settle anything once and for all. But something is settled in the process - in the incremental approach - as Cass Sunstein argues in this...(展开全部)

Racket is the noble descendant of Lisp, a programming language renowned for its elegance and power. But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp that makes programming purists drool, it was designed with beginning programmers in mind. Realm of Racket promises to make this language even more fun and accessible with its collection of comics and games. You'll follow C...(展开全部)

What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the ...(展开全部)

What happens when an adventure travel expert-who's never actually done anything adventurous-tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu? July 24, 1911, was a day for the history books. For on that rainy morning, the young Yale professor Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and encountered an ancient city in the clouds: the now famous ci...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Talibans backyard Anyone who despairs of the individuals power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistans treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter...(展开全部)

Internationally acclaimed science writer Lone Frank swabs up her DNA to provide the first truly intimate account of the new science of consumer-led genomics. She challenges the business mavericks intent on mapping every baby's genome, ponders the consequences of biological fortune-telling, and prods the psychologists who hope to uncover just how much or how little our environme...(展开全部)

隆娜·弗兰克（Lone Frank, 1966— ）《神经旅行家———从脑科学边缘寄来的明信片》（The Neurotourist: Postcards from the Edge of Brain Science）的作者。她拥有神经生物学博士学位，曾是生物科技产业领域的一位研究者。她也是著名的科学记者、电视纪录片主持人，曾为《自然》（Nature）、《科学》（Science）、《科学美国人》（Scientific American）、《法兰克福汇报》（Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung）等报刊撰文，同时也是丹麦顶尖报纸《周末报》（Weekendavisen）的特约撰稿人。她目前生活在哥本哈根。

"Arguably, one of the best tomes...Twitter Power is jam-packed with clever ways to start and dominate a marketplace." (Brandopia.typepad.com, March 23rd 2009) “For months I saw and heard the buzz about Twitter, but it wasn’t until Joel told me details about it that I fully understood its marketing implications. Now I can clearly see how this free site c...(展开全部)