"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)

史景迁（Jonathan D. Spence），1936年出生于英国，是国际知名的中国近现代史专家，1965—2008年在美国耶鲁大学历史系任教。著作极丰，主要有《追寻现代中国》、《雍正王朝之大义觉迷》、《太平天国》、《改变中国》、《曹寅与康熙》、《康熙》、《天安门》、《大汗之国：西方眼中的中国》、《王氏之死》、《利玛窦的记忆宫殿》、《胡若望的疑问》。

"The Hunter", the first book in the "Parker" series, is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind - to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him! Richard (Donald Westlake)...(展开全部)

A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor -- 400 million years old -- a four-limbed dinofish! In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a young South African museum curator, caught sight of a specimen among a fisherman's trawl that she knew was special. With limb-like protuberances culminating in fins the strange fish was unlike anyth...(展开全部)

从大脑神经工作原理解释意识的产生和发展。

Offering an intimate perspective on the life of an important, prolific author, this revealing biography uncovers the inner workings of a cult figure through his tumultuous relationship with his third wife. Brilliant and charismatic, Philip K. Dick was known as a loyal friend, father, and husband, as well as a talented science fiction writer. His six-year marriage to the woman h...(展开全部)

In this Second Edition of his widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The text is tighter throughout and up-to-date on the most important scholarship in the field. The new discussions in this thorough revision include the extension of imperial power into central Asia by the eighteenth-century emperors...(展开全部)