In Obama's Wars , Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, ...(展开全部)

This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 70s, between Noam Chomsky with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples who took his ideas in a direction he was unhappy with. The repercussions of this divisive and acrimonious dispute remain in the ways that linguists look at language and the mind...(展开全部)

This Newbery Honor tale is now in paperback Holling Hoodhood is really in for it. He's just started seventh grade with Mrs. Baker, a teacher he knows is out to get him. Why else would she make him read Shakespeare . . . outside of class? The year is 1967, and everyone has bigger things than homework to worry about. There's Vietnam for one thing, and then there's the family bus...(展开全部)

In this newly revised and updated edition of his essential work, John Prados adds his concluding findings on U.S. covert operations in Angola, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and the Persian Gulf. Acclaimed as a landmark book about U.S. intelligence agencies in the postwar era, Presidents' Secret Wars describes the secret warfare mounted by the president, the CIA, and the Pentagon_oper...(展开全部)

关于作者 丹尼尔 • 凯斯 Daniel Keyes，1927-2014 年 1927 年生于纽约。他曾在杂志社工作（即后来的漫威漫画），在转行任中学老师时，开始从事小说创作。因《献给阿尔吉侬的花束》荣获“雨果奖”和“星云奖”。拥有心理学背景的丹尼尔 • 凯斯，擅长在小说中探讨人类最精微、最深层的心理问题。他在俄亥俄大学任教时，便开始以多重人格为创作的方向，1981 年出版的《24 个比利》，让他的名字与“精 神分析小说”划上等号。2014 年 6 月 15 日丹尼尔 • 凯斯因肺炎并发症于佛罗里达州南部的家中去世。 关于比利 威廉 • 斯坦利 • 米利根 William Stanley Milligan, 1955-2014 年 又被称为比利 • 米利根（Billy Milligan），1955年生于迈阿密。他于 1977 年因在俄亥俄州立大学犯下...(展开全部)

This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 70s, between Noam Chomsky with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples who took his ideas in a direction he was unhappy with. The repercussions of this divisive and acrimonious dispute remain in the ways that linguists look at language and the mind...(展开全部)

J. Frank Adams, the founder of stable homotopy theory, gave a lecture series at the University of Chicago in 1967, 1970, and 1971, the well-written notes of which are published in this classic in algebraic topology. The three series focused on Novikov's work on operations in complex cobordism, Quillen's work on formal groups and complex cobordism, and stable homotopy and genera...(展开全部)

J. Frank Adams, the founder of stable homotopy theory, gave a lecture series at the University of Chicago in 1967, 1970, and 1971, the well-written notes of which are published in this classic in algebraic topology. The three series focused on Novikov's work on operations in complex cobordism, Quillen's work on formal groups and complex cobordism, and stable homotopy and genera...(展开全部)

He was the most powerful Sith lord who ever lived. But could he be the only one who never died? “Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise that he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could e...(展开全部)