关于作者： （英）乔纳森•拉班（Jonathan Raban），1942生于英国诺福克郡，曾荣获1982年海涅曼文学奖、1981年及1991年的汤姆斯•库克旅行文学奖，以及华盛顿州政府文艺奖等。另有作品：《阿拉伯》(Arabia, 1979）、《旧日荣耀》（Old Glory, 1982）、《陌生之地》（Foreign Land, 1985）、《沿岸航行》（Coasting, 1986）、《为爱与财富》（For Love and Money, 1989）、《穷山恶水美国梦》（Bad Land, 1997）、《水路入朱诺》（Passage to Juneau, 1999）等书，并参与《牛津海事书》（Oxford Book of the Sea, 1992）的编辑工作。其中，《穷山恶水美国梦》一书除荣登《纽约时报》年度编辑选书外，还获得太平洋西北书商奖、...(展开全部)

The legendary Norwegian pop artist Pushwagner’s scathing comics masterpiece—lost for decades, and never before published in the U.S.—is an epic vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and endless distant war. “CLEAN BOMB THE HAPPY-HAPPY WAY,” blares the morning paper. “He...(展开全部)

In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and renewing ourselves, carving out journeys, creating private spaces. But in the city we are also afraid of being alone, clinging to the structures of daily life to ward off the chaos around us. How is it that the noisy, jostling, overwhelming metropolis leaves us at once so energized and so fragile? In "Soft City", one of our mo...(展开全部)

In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and renewing ourselves, carving out journeys, creating private spaces. But in the city we are also afraid of being alone, clinging to the structures of daily life to ward off the chaos around us. How is it that the noisy, jostling, overwhelming metropolis leaves us at once so energized and so fragile? In Soft City, one of our most...(展开全部)

Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the c...(展开全部)

A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city not only of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. In this fascinating examination of the city's soul, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak imaginatively recre...(展开全部)

Felipe Fernández-Armesto為知名歷史學者，著作豐富，已翻譯成二十二種語言，包括暢銷書Civilizations、Millennium、《食物的歷史》、《真實、真相、真理》、《改變世界的觀念》。他自一九八三年起在牛津大學現代史系擔任教職，目前也是倫敦大學瑪麗女王學院的歷史學和地理學教授。他以海洋與殖民史的著作贏得不少榮譽，包括一九九七年英國國家海洋博物館的凱氏獎章和一九九九年的約翰．卡特．布朗獎章。各書評媒體對他讚譽不斷，《文學評論》說他是世界上最好的歷史學家之一，《紐約時報》也為文稱評論者將他比擬為吉朋、湯恩比、布勞岱爾等歷史學大師。

菲利普·费尔南德兹-阿迈斯托是世界知名学者和作家。菲利普·费尔南德兹一阿迈斯托，现任美国圣母大学威廉·P．雷诺兹历史学讲座教授。他在牛津大学取得硕士和博士学位后，曾长期留校任教。他还获得了拉特罗布大学和洛斯安第斯大学荣誉博士学位。他多次出国访学，2000年担任伦敦大学玛丽女王学院全球环境史讲座教授；2005-2009年，担任塔夫斯大学阿斯图里亚斯王子讲座教授；他还担任过荷兰人文与社会科学高级研究院研究员、明苏达大学太平洋联盟客座教授。他是芝加哥大学出版社制图学史编辑委员会成员、莱顿大学海外史研究编辑委员会成员、《社会、历史、旅行比较研究》以及《全球史》杂志编辑，他还是哈克卢特协会顾问委员、国际笔会英国理事会成员，以及国际笔会文学基金会主席。他近来荣获的奖项包括：世界历史学会很好图书奖（2007），西班牙天文协会颁发的2005年度重量研究奖，西班牙地理...(展开全部)

"A brilliant and readable book...a rich study of humankind's restless spirit."—Candice Millard, New York Times Book Review Greeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new standard. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, o...(展开全部)

<i>Coyote</i> marks a dramatic new turn in the career of Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Chronospace. Epic in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of plausible events, it tells the brilliant story of Earth's first interstellar colonists-and the mysterious planet that becomes their home.