In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply the Prophet.In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries. Finding George Orwell i...(展开全部)

Bertil and Hseng Noung Lintner, and their baby daughter, born enroute, spent one and a half years traveling through northern and eastern Burma, from 1985-87. Throughout their account, they describe, with rare and deep insight, the struggle by northern Burma’s ethnic groups against brutal Burmese army rule, and record the decline and fall of the Communist Party of Burma. During ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 柏提爾．林納Bertil Lintner 瑞典記者、作家與緬甸問題專家，專研亞洲局勢近四十年。曾任《遠東經濟評論》緬甸特派員，目前為《瑞典日報》及丹麥《Politiken雜誌》亞洲特派員，報導與分析作品常見於《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》及《亞洲時報》網路版。林納在二○○四年關於北韓的傑出報導，讓他獲得亞洲出版人協會獎。此外林納在緬甸、印度東北、寮國及中國雲南區域耕耘近四十年，以深入蹲點報導，爬梳區域安全、政治叛亂、族群衝突與組織犯罪之間盤根錯節的脈絡。 完成本書跋涉穿越緬北的十八個月行程之前，柏提爾就曾花費數月時間，多次採訪緬甸武裝反抗團體。一九八一年的採訪中，他認識了當時為撣邦軍密碼員的森倫士官長。他們在一九八三年結婚，目前住在泰國清邁。 相關著作:《中國的印度戰爭：世界屋脊上的衝突，亞洲兩大區域強權的角力》 譯者簡介 林玉菁 紐約市立大...(展开全部)

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance ...(展开全部)

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance ...(展开全部)

Kevin Brown is the owner of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps (http://www.geographicus.com), a generalist dealer in rare maps from all periods and at all value points. Kevin attended Bennington College, in Vermont, where he majored in “Pilgrimage.” Bennington fosters a “learn by doing” approach to academics, and Kevin has translated this philosophy to the map trade. He approaches ...(展开全部)

托尼·海依 微软研究院副总裁，物理学家，计算机领域知名学者。曾出版多部学术专著，累计发表论文150多篇，在专业领域有较强的学术影响力。热衷于计算机科普事业，曾受理查德·费曼委托，为其整理计算机系列讲座文稿，结集出版。个人畅销科普作品包括《新量子宇宙》《爱因斯坦的镜子》《第四范式》等。 奎利·帕佩 英国南安普顿大学信息技术创新中心高级研究员，主要研究方向为高性能计算、事件模拟和数值算法。

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)