This short biography is taken from: Shanghai. 1949: The end of an era, New York, New Amsterdam Books, NY, 1989, p. 9. Obituary on CBC Canada: "Of Indian descent but born in Shanghai in September 1911, Tata picked up photography after completing his studies at the University of Hong Kong in the late 1930s. After purchasing a small format camera, he began capturing street scenes ...(展开全部)

Archaeologist Brandon Thackery and his rival Miles 'Klicks' Jordan fulfill a dinosaur lover's dream with history's first time-travel jaunt to the late Mesozoic. Hoping to solve the extinction mystery, they find Earth's gravity is only half its 21st century value and dinosaurs that behave very strangely. Could the slimey blue creatures from Mars have something to do with both?

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes―both human and literary―that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird...(展开全部)

From the Sino-Japanese War to the Communist Revolution, the onrushing narrative of modern China can drown out the stories of the people who lived it. Yet a remarkable cache of letters from one of China’s most prominent and influential families, the Lius of Shanghai, sheds new light on this tumultuous era. Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh take us inside the Lius’ world to explor...(展开全部)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nat...(展开全部)

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nat...(展开全部)

莉迪亚•戴维斯（Lydia Davis） 美国当代著名小说家、翻译家。她的小说以语言精悍、结构新颖、洞察人性在美国文学界独树一帜。2005 年当选为美国艺术科学院院士，2013 荣获布克国际奖，长期致力于法国经典文学的译介工作，现为纽约州立阿伯尼大学创意写作教授。

莉迪亚•戴维斯（Lydia Davis） 美国当代著名小说家、翻译家。她的小说以语言精悍、结构新颖、洞察人性在美国文学界独树一帜。2005 年当选为美国艺术科学院院士，2013 荣获布克国际奖，长期致力于法国经典文学的译介工作，现为纽约州立阿伯尼大学创意写作教授。