For decades after identifying the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98% of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. Yet recently researchers have discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that underwrite a numb...(展开全部)

For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that ...(展开全部)

For decades, 98 per cent of our DNA was written off as 'junk' on the grounds that it did not code for proteins. From rare genetic diseases to Down's Syndrome, from viral infections to the ageing process, only now are the effects and the vital functions of these junk regions beginning to emerge. Scientists' rapidly growing knowledge of this often controversial field has already ...(展开全部)

作者：雷蒙·斯尼奇（本名丹尼尔·汉德勒） 是位编故事的高手。1970年，他出生于美国，1998年开始用雷蒙·斯尼奇这个笔名创作《波特莱尔大遇险》系列小说，并一举成名，盘踞《纽约时报》畅销榜长达600多周，受到《纽约时报》《美国新闻和世界报道》等一众主流媒体的高度评价。而由此系列小说改编的电影《雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险》上映后，更是受到读者观众的追捧。从此，他便用小说里的这个人物的名字开始一系列的创作。他不仅会写故事，在音乐和电影方面也有很高的造诣。因此他的作品所呈现的画面感极强，阅读时经常会有身临其境的感觉。他了解孩子的内心世界，所以才能把儿童的心理活动及感受描写的那么透彻。 绘者：乔恩·克拉森 出生于1981年的加拿大新锐画家。他的第一本自写自画图画书《我要把我的帽子找回来》，一经面世，便受到了读者的喜爱。被《纽约时报书评》评为“2011年度10本最...(展开全部)

This non-fiction short-form eBook features content which is adapted from the audiobook Harry Potter: A History of Magic - inspired by the British Library exhibition of the same name.How to become invisible, to make someone fall in love with you, to transform into another creature: these are all things that people have believed in, yearned for, or feared, throughout history. Spells and charms have captured the imagination for hundreds of years. Warding off evil is also something that has concerned people throughout history. From werewolves to all manner of snakes in the wizarding world, you'd learn how to face a number of strange and frightening forces in Defence Against the Dark Arts classes.This eBook short examines the colourful characters and curious incidents of the real history of magic, and how they relate to the Hogwarts lesson subjects of Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts.The history of magic is as long as time and as wide as the world. In every culture, in every age, in every place and, probably, in every heart, there is magic.

肯尼沃思·惠斯普是一位著名的魁地奇专家（用他自己的话说，还是一名狂热分子）。他创作了多部与魁地奇有关的作品，包括《威格敦流浪汉队奇迹》、《他如狂人般飞行》（“危险的”戴伊·卢埃林传记）和《击打游走球——魁地奇防御战略研究》。 肯尼沃思·惠斯普把自己的时间分成了两个部分。他把一部分时间花在诺丁汉郡的家中，另一部分时间花在“威格敦流浪汉队本星期打球的任何地方”。他的业余爱好是十五子棋、素食烹饪和搜集名贵的老式飞天扫帚。

肯尼沃思·惠斯普是一位著名的魁地奇专家（用他自己的话说，还是一名狂热分子）。他创作了多部与魁地奇有关的作品，包括《威格敦流浪汉队奇迹》、《他如狂人般飞行》（“危险的”戴伊·卢埃林传记）和《击打游走球——魁地奇防御战略研究》。 肯尼沃思·惠斯普把自己的时间分成了两个部分。他把一部分时间花在诺丁汉郡的家中，另一部分时间花在“威格敦流浪汉队本星期打球的任何地方”。他的业余爱好是十五子棋、素食烹饪和搜集名贵的老式飞天扫帚。

Commissaire Maubritane is approached by an old acquaintance, Pierre Sertat, who has become terrified by strange noises coming from within his locked and bolted villa, and who fears that the lives of himself, his wife, and his daughter may be in danger. He believes that two smuggling gangs have perfected a technique for passing through walls and will kill him if he divulges any ...(展开全部)

Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet-in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport-these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe. The...(展开全部)

Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's "The Dark Ship", we experience an extraordinary new voice in fiction, which tells us the story of the kind of trauma and striving that leads a man from religious extremism to a vain hope fo...(展开全部)