Cambridge has a world-famous university, but the town's long history predates the coming of the scholars, beginning with the Romans, who first identified this as a good spot for a settlement. It was a

亚当·布鲁姆（1888—1963），20世纪初英国著名侦探小说家。他较早地把大学校园生活和欧非文化融入自己的作品，先后发表多部校园谜案小说，为后来西方同类小说的发展奠定了基础。

艾伦·麦克法兰是剑桥大学社会人类学教授、剑桥大学国王学院院士，历任英国学术院院士、欧洲学术院院士。著述凡21种，包括《英国个人主义的起源》、《玻璃的世界》、《给莉莉的信》、《日本镜中行》、《绿色黄金：茶叶的故事》（以上五种均有中译本）、《都铎和斯图亚特时代英格兰的巫术》、《重构历史共同体》、《17世纪牧师拉尔夫·乔斯林的家庭生活》、《资本主义文化》、《现代世界的形成》，等等。

This new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates the major developments in language study which have taken place since the mid 1990s. Two main new areas have been added: the rise of electronic communication in all its current forms from email to texting, and the crisis affecting the world's languages, of which half are though...(展开全部)

Chepstow's location by a crossing of the River Wye, close to the Severn Estuary, has meant that the Monmouthshire town has always occupied a strategically important position. A Norman castle still sta

The sprawling urban conurbation that is Swindon began life as an Anglo-Saxon defensible settlement atop a limestone hill. Old Swindon would likely have remained a sleepy market town were it not for th

The shape-shifting alien race known as the Skrulls has secretly infiltrated every super-powered organization on Earth with one goal: full-scale invasion! Now, theinvasion is here! The Marvel Universe is in shambles. The Skrull Empire's plan has birthed itself into perfection. It is hero vs. hero! Resurrections and reunions! Is Tony Stark a Skrull? Page after page unveils reveal...(展开全部)

The 'A-side' of Cheltenham's history as a fashionable Regency spa and subsequent reinvention as a town of colleges, churches and festivals is well documented, but what about its 'flip-side'? Much of t

The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn't afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and blinded him, so that he couldn't se...(展开全部)

《秘密》这本集成功学、财富学、心理学等的著作中，作者揭露了运行在宇宙间主宰人生的强有力的黄金法则，清晰明了地解析了如何运用这个法则，创造美满幸福的生活。这是有关一切的秘密，这个秘密将给你想要的幸福、快乐、健康和爱情。《秘密》的构成来自当今成功者的智慧，他们都是各个领域世界级的领袖，他们都因运用这个秘密而获得健康、快乐、成功和声誉。 《秘密》是一本注定属于伟大的心灵励志书。《秘密》作者朗达?拜恩是澳大利亚电视工作者，有一年，父亲突然去世、工作遭遇瓶颈、家庭关系也陷入僵局，就在人生跌至谷底、生活即将崩溃时，意外发现了隐藏在百年古书中的秘密。几个世纪以来,这个秘密零星地存在于各种口述的历史、文学、宗教与哲学之中，更藏在人与世界的各个互动层面，每个人自身都存在着自己所不知道的能量。作者还发现，许多当今的佼佼者早已了解并运用此秘密。因此，作者不禁疑问：“为什么...(展开全部)