Nicholas Harberd's narrative of the changing seasons has as its focus one tiny thale-cress plant in an East Anglian churchyard. He describes both what can be seen with the naked eye and the hidden molecular mechanisms that underlie it. He also tells the story of the last ten years of discovery in his own laboratory, as the team works to understand the genetic control of the gro...(展开全部)

Nicholas Harberd's narrative of the changing seasons has as its focus one tiny thale-cress plant in an East Anglian churchyard. He describes both what can be seen with the naked eye and the hidden molecular mechanisms that underlie it. He also tells the story of the last ten years of discovery in his own laboratory, as the team works to understand the genetic control of the gro...(展开全部)

We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is ...(展开全部)

We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is ...(展开全部)

威廉·马奇(William March)，原名威廉·爱德华·坎贝尔，1893年生于美国阿拉巴马州的莫比尔市。1916年因第一次世界大战应征入海军，军旅生涯结束时，他获得了优异服务十字勋章、海军十字勋章和法国十字军功章。 战后，马奇为沃特曼船运公司工作，凡18年之久。1933年，他出版了第一部长篇小说《K连》，此书很大程度上基于他的战时经历。他在德国工作时精神崩溃，返回纽约后在接下来的11年内写了五本小说。这些书销量并不特别好，然而，到1946年的时候，马奇积累了足够的信心，辞去工作，专心全职写作。 没过多久，马奇又遭遇了一次更加严重的精神崩溃，在南方的疗养院里休整了六个月。1950年，他迁至新奥尔良居住，过上了比纽约那种纷乱环境要静谧和安宁许多的生活。1954年4月，《坏种》这部公认为他最佳作品的小说出版时，马奇已经病重。1954年5月15日，他死于...(展开全部)

In autumn, a strong wind blows flower seeds high in the air and carries them far across the land. One by one, many of the seeds are lost -- burned by the sun, fallen into the ocean, eaten by a bird. But some survive the long winter and, come spring, sprout into plants, facing new dangers -- trampled by playing children, picked as a gift for a friend. Soon only the tiniest seed ...(展开全部)

"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as Doubt holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off stealth charges that go deeper emotionally. One of the year's ten best."-Ben Brantley, The New York Tim...(展开全部)

"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as Doubt holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off stealth charges that go deeper emotionally. One of the year's ten best."-Ben Brantley, The New York Tim...(展开全部)

Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding, Mike Mignola has won numerous awards in the comics industry and beyond. When strangeness threatens to engulf the world, a strange man will come to save it. Sent to investigate a mystery with super...(展开全部)