Marvel's super-sized "Adamantium Collection"-style format continues, shining a well-deserved spotlight on a true Marvel classic! Within the Marvel Universe, heroes soar high in the skies, ready to battle the villains who threaten their world. Yet living in the shadow of these extraordinary icons are ordinary men and women, who view the "Marvels" with a mixture of fear, disbelie...(展开全部)

Marvel's super-sized "Adamantium Collection"-style format continues, shining a well-deserved spotlight on a true Marvel classic! Within the Marvel Universe, heroes soar high in the skies, ready to battle the villains who threaten their world. Yet living in the shadow of these extraordinary icons are ordinary men and women, who view the "Marvels" with a mixture of fear, disbelie...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 埃里克•杰•多林（Eric Jay Dolin）毕业于布朗大学，主修生物和环境研究，在耶鲁大学森林和环境研究学院获得环境管理硕士学位后，又取得麻省理工学院环境政策和规划博士学位。曾任美国环保署项目经理，在美国和英国从事环境顾问工作，他的大部分作品反映了他对野生动物、环境和美国历史的兴趣，如《美国和中国最初的相遇》《皮毛、财富和帝国》《利维坦》《政治的浑水》《蛇头》等。个人网站：www.ericjaydolin.com 【译者简介】 冯璇，北京外国语大学英语学院毕业，曾在出版社从事版权工作，现在专门从事翻译工作，已翻译出版了《郁金香热》《美第奇家族的兴衰》《安第斯山脉的生与死》《印加帝国的末日》《皮毛、财富和帝国》《利维坦》等作品。

Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system from its earliest days, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines. Beginning with "Boston Light," America’s first lighthouse, Dolin shows how the story of America, from colony to re...(展开全部)

By 1938, Maugham had become a legend as a playwright, novelist and magician of the short story. He then wrote The Summing Up to give some account of how he learned his craft and why he became such an acute observer of human beings.

Every Sunday Mrs Badger walks up the mountain near her house. She knows the name of every animal and every plant on the way and helps everyone in need. One particular Sunday she meets a little cat, Leo, who would like to join her on her journey. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship and many more walks up the mountain. What will happen when Mrs Badger is too old to jo...(展开全部)

Impelled by the desire to recapitulate and amplify those 'subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life', Somerset Maugham wrote The Summing Up when he was sixty-four. Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, The Summing Up is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo. It...(展开全部)

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of writings that chronicle the author's state of mind and personal perspective on events, fellow writers and public figures of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to articles and essays such as the celebrated title piece, this volume includes a...(展开全部)

By 1938, Maugham had become a legend as a playwright, novelist and magician of the short story. He then wrote The Summing Up to give some account of how he learned his craft and why he became such an acute observer of human beings.

Impelled by the desire to recapitulate and amplify those 'subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life', Somerset Maugham wrote The Summing Up when he was sixty-four. Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, The Summing Up is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo. It...(展开全部)