The first book to explore, in depth, the complete range of paranormal phenomena reported in Sussex. Published in a handy A-Z format, you will find accounts of well-known hauntings, as well as many pre

The first book to explore, in depth, the complete range of paranormal phenomena reported in Sussex. Published in a handy A-Z format, you will find accounts of well-known hauntings, as well as many pre

作者简介 Jenifer Van Vleck，本科毕业于布朗大学，博士毕业于耶鲁大学。曾在耶鲁大学执教美国和世界历史，现在史密森航空学会从事研究工作。研究方向为美国对外关系历史，重点关注文化、技术和私营企业如何塑造美国的世界角色。她也是著名的世界航空发展史的研究者和学者。 译者简介 姜哲人，先后获得北京航空航天大学经济学学士学位、法国图卢兹高等商学院MBA学位。曾供职于中国航空工业集团有限公司民机产业部，从事航空外贸、政策研究、民机发展规划、国际合作等工作，主笔了《中国航空工业民用航空“十三五”产业发展规划实施意见》。长期关注并研究欧美航空工业发展历史及情况，同时也是一名航空科普志愿者。

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world's two largest oceans - the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remains overwhelmingly fixed on America's relationship with Europe. Bruce Cumings challenges the Atlanticist perspective in this innovat...(展开全部)

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world's two largest oceans - the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remains overwhelmingly fixed on America's relationship with Europe. Bruce Cumings challenges the Atlanticist perspective in this innovat...(展开全部)

The Chan (Zen in Japanese) school of Chinese Buddhism began when, in the seventh century, a small religious community gathered around a Buddhist monk named Hongren. Over the centuries, Chan Buddhism grew from an obscure movement to an officially recognized and eventually dominant form of Buddhism in China and throughout East Asia. In this book Albert Welter presents, for the fi...(展开全部)

乔治·O·阿贝尔曾是美国洛杉矶加利福尼亚大学的天文学教授。他出生于洛杉矶地区并在那里上中学，在美国空军短期工作后进入加州理工学院，在那里得到学士、硕士位，最后在1957年获得博士学位。随后，他一直在加州大学洛杉矶分校任职，并在休假期间曾经作为慕尼黑物理和天体物理学马克斯·普朗克研究所的特遨学者和爱丁堡皇家天文台的特邀教授。他的研究对象是密集星系团、宇宙宏观结构以及和宇宙学有关的其他问题。他在国内和国际的科学组织以及天文普及方面都很活跃。他除有许多研究论文和一般文章外，还写过几部被广泛选用的天文学教科书，其中包括《宇宙的探索》。1981年10月7日，乔治·阿贝尔因病逝世。

This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budge...(展开全部)

Kimberly Kay Hoang is Assistant Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago.

Generally open-minded yet critical, this survey spanning the gamut of paranormal phenomena and unexplained mysteries will rattle enthusiasts and skeptics alike. White, who is the former science editor of British GQ and former director of scientific studies at d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford, dismisses near-death experiences as the dying brain's compensatory fantasies and interpr...(展开全部)