If you center a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view while glimpses of continents encroach on the fringes, but this is a view dominated by water. The immense stretch of the Pacific Ocean is inhabited by a diverse array of peoples and cultures bound by a common thread: their relationship ...(展开全部)

西蒙·温彻斯特（Simon Winchester），英国著名作家、探险家、记者，中文名文思淼。生于1944年，1966年自牛津大学地质学专业毕业后，游历过世界很多地方，曾担任《卫报》20余年的海外记者及《星期日泰晤士报》的海外特派员。近年一直为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》、BBC、《观察家》、《史密森学会月刊》等一线媒体撰稿。 他著有多部作品，包括《大西洋的故事》（Atlantic）、《教授与疯子》（the Professor and the Madman）、《李约瑟：揭开中国神秘面纱的人》（The Man Who Loved China）、《OED的故事》（The Meaning of Everything）、《世界边缘的裂缝》（A Crack in the Edge of the World）、《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Ch...(展开全部)

西蒙·温彻斯特（Simon Winchester），英国著名作家、探险家、记者，中文名文思淼。生于1944年，1966年自牛津大学地质学专业毕业后，游历过世界很多地方，曾担任《卫报》20余年的海外记者及《星期日泰晤士报》的海外特派员。近年一直为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》、BBC、《观察家》、《史密森学会月刊》等一线媒体撰稿。 他著有多部作品，包括《大西洋的故事》（Atlantic）、《教授与疯子》（the Professor and the Madman）、《李约瑟：揭开中国神秘面纱的人》（The Man Who Loved China）、《OED的故事》（The Meaning of Everything）、《世界边缘的裂缝》（A Crack in the Edge of the World）、《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Ch...(展开全部)

America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a radical plan—time travel has been invented in the future to thwart the virus. If she signs up for a one-way-trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer, the company will pay for the l...(展开全部)

This is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mountains and rivers. Produced predominantly in the nineteenth century, these beautifully rendered maps emerged out of the tide of exploration and scientific developments in measuring techniques. Beginning with the work of explorer Alexander von Humboldt, these ...(展开全部)

What is Life? Where did it come from? Why does it end? In this beautiful and definitive new book, Professor Brian Cox takes us on an incredible journey to discover how a few fundamental laws gave birth to the most complex, diverse and unique force in the Universe - life itself. There are thought to be as many as 100 million different species on Earth - each and every one govern...(展开全部)

From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean, home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales. Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature's most remarkable creatures, including the familial orcas in ...(展开全部)

From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean, home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales.Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature's most remarkable creatures, including the familial orcas in t...(展开全部)

Sun Ra, Brian Eno, Lee Perry, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian Wilson are interviewed in this extraordinary work of sonic history that travels from the rainforests of amazonas to virtual Las Vegas, from David Lynch's dream house, high in the Hollywood hills to the megalopolis of Tokyo. "Ocean of Sound" begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debu...(展开全部)