In love with creatures and flowers from the age of 5, Elise Pearlstine joined the zoology club in high school and graduated with a degree in zoology in 1978. Her PhD was a continental study of migratory raptors, comparing morphology and genetics of kestrel, accipiter, hawk, and falcon. Large scale patterns continued to interest her, and she went on to research land use and biod...(展开全部)

To women the world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume, Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar. In this one-of-a-kind book, the legendary Ellena himself takes the reader through the doors of his laboratory and explains the process of creating precious fragrances, revealing key methods and "recipes" involved in this mysterious alchemy. Perfume is an extremely com...(展开全部)

艾克敏，前美国《时代周刊》资深记者，中国、俄罗斯和中东地区的专家。在《美国时代周刊》工作的23年里，他的采访报道囊括了5大洲50多个国家，采访过许多著名人物。他曾连续3次撰写《时代周刊》年度封面人物。1994年离开《时代周刊》后，他曾做过一段自由职业者，随后在1998年出任华盛顿伦理与公共政策中心高级研究员。 另著：<Jesus in Beijing:How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power> 《耶稣在北京：基督教如何转化中国改变全球力量平衡》

艾克敏，前美国《时代周刊》资深记者，中国、俄罗斯和中东地区的专家。在《美国时代周刊》工作的23年里，他的采访报道囊括了5大洲50多个国家，采访过许多著名人物。他曾连续3次撰写《时代周刊》年度封面人物。1994年离开《时代周刊》后，他曾做过一段自由职业者，随后在1998年出任华盛顿伦理与公共政策中心高级研究员。 另著：<Jesus in Beijing:How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power> 《耶稣在北京：基督教如何转化中国改变全球力量平衡》

艾克敏，前美国《时代周刊》资深记者，中国、俄罗斯和中东地区的专家。在《美国时代周刊》工作的23年里，他的采访报道囊括了5大洲50多个国家，采访过许多著名人物。他曾连续3次撰写《时代周刊》年度封面人物。1994年离开《时代周刊》后，他曾做过一段自由职业者，随后在1998年出任华盛顿伦理与公共政策中心高级研究员。 另著：<Jesus in Beijing:How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power> 《耶稣在北京：基督教如何转化中国改变全球力量平衡》

Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent’s Park hours in 1944, the ailing H.G. Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic touch; his plunge into socialist politics; his ...(展开全部)

Robert Olen Butler served with the US Army in Vietnam as a Vietnamese linguist in 1971. He has published six novels since 1981, the most recent of which is The Deuce. The short stories in this collection have appeared in such places as The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded him the Emily Clark Balch Award. They have also been ant...(展开全部)

Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan. The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, as he watches his childhood friend, Ah Yao, succumb to complications from AIDS. ...(展开全部)

By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.

By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.