Agatha Christie's famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets -- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symming...(展开全部)

The Gregg family loves hunting, but their eight-year-old neighbor can't stand it. After countless pleas for them to stop are ignored, she has no other choice -- she has to put her magic finger on them. Now the Greggs are a family of birds, and like it or not, they're going to find out how it feels to be on the other end of the gun.

The Gregg family loves hunting, but their eight-year-old neighbor can't stand it. After countless pleas for them to stop are ignored, she has no other choice -- she has to put her magic finger on them. Now the Greggs are a family of birds, and like it or not, they're going to find out how it feels to be on the other end of the gun.

To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it’s just plain terrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them.

作者 西奥多·P. 斯诺（Theodore P. Snow）：科罗拉多大学博尔德分校天体物理学和空间天文学中心名誉教授，国际天文学联合会（IAU）活跃成员，宇宙起源光谱仪科学团队成员；他是获奖教材《动态宇宙》的作者。 唐·布朗利（Don Brownlee）：华盛顿大学天文学名誉教授、天体生物学项目成员，美国宇航局“星尘”任务的首席研究员；科普作家，此前他与华盛顿大学古生物学家彼得·沃德合著了《稀有地球》。 译者 王文浩，清华大学工程物理系高级工程师，专业方向是聚变与等离子体物理，近年主要从事科普著作翻译，译有贝尔纳的《科学的社会功能》、维纳的《控制论》等。

Alessandra Sanguinetti’s vivid photographs depicting the coexistence of people and animals might at first sight seem brutal, images to be viewed quickly and erased from the memory. But that would be not only impossible but also a great loss, for here is an arrestingly honest portrayal of the relationship between man and beast as the one raises the other for the ultimate sacrifi...(展开全部)

The inhabitants of Lymstock are being plagued by threats, rumors, and sordid accusations. And it's Miss Marple's duty to finger the guilty.

What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work? The Philosophy of Language, Sixth Edition, is an excellent introduction to such fundamental questions. Incorporating insights from new coeditor David Sosa, the sixth edition collects forty-eight of the most im...(展开全部)

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists a...(展开全部)