New York has always been a bellwether for the nation, representing both its brightest ambitions and its darkest fears. "The Restless City" is a short, readable history of New York City, from colonial times to the present, showing how the successes and struggles of the city reinforced each other to create a distinctly dynamic, shocking, and therefore influential city. Organized ...(展开全部)

New York has always been a bellwether for the nation, representing both its brightest ambitions and its darkest fears. The Restless City is a short, readable history of New York City, from colonial times to the present, showing how the successes and struggles of the city reinforced each other to create a distinctly dynamic, shocking, and therefore influential city. Organized ar...(展开全部)

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out, she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life ...(展开全部)

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out, she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life ...(展开全部)

马克斯·玻恩 Max Born（1882.12.11—1970.1.5） 德国著名理论物理学家、数学家，量子力学奠基人之一。他一生所获荣誉众多，被先后邀请为近10个国家级科学院（或学会）的院士，并于1954年被授予诺贝尔物理学奖，以表彰他在量子力学领域的基础研究。 马克斯·玻恩曾在德国组建著名的“哥廷根学派”，并将哥廷根建设成世界物理学研究中心之一。他曾在德国和英国多所顶级院校担任教授，泡利和海森堡曾是他的助手，费米和奥本海默曾是他的学生。他还教导过很多中国科学家，包括“两弹一星”元勋彭桓武、程开甲，中国核物理学会理事长杨立铭、中国半导体技术奠基人黄昆等。 玻恩一生著述众多，发表论文300多篇，出版著作20多部，本书是他唯一为大众所写的科普著作。

Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire. The emperor Hadrian, a strange...(展开全部)

"The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present" is a short, lively history of the world's most exciting and diverse metropolis. It shows how New York's perpetual struggles for power, wealth, and status exemplify the vigor, creativity, resilience, and influence of the nation's premier urban center. The updated second edition includes 19 images...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

巴里科（1958-），生于都灵。1991年出版个人的首部小说《愤怒的城堡》，就获了坎皮耶洛精选作品奖(PremioSelezioneCampiello)，并且被译成多国文学。以风格清新受到意大利文坛瞩目；1993年推出第二部小说《海洋，海》一跃成为意大利年轻人中风靡一时的明星作家，又为他赢得了意大利维亚雷焦文学奖(PremioViareggio)的殊荣。他是欧洲各种重要文学奖的常胜军。《海洋，海》一书在意大利赢得维多雷古文学奖和波斯克城堡文学奖；《愤怒的城堡》甫一出版就同时获得法国著名的梅迪奇外国作品奖和意大利康彼埃洛处女作奖；《蚕丝》出版后更立刻登上意大利畅销书排行榜，迅即盘踞欧洲各大文学书籍的畅销排行榜。而他1991年的新作《城市》，在出版的头几个月仅意大利就有二十万的销售量。他的剧作《海上钢琴师》（1994，Novicento）被朱塞佩·托纳托...(展开全部)