WILL STEACY（威爾．史岱西） 史岱西將是美國攝影師暨作家，在成為攝影師之前是名工人。他的攝影作品在許多個展和群展展出，包括在紐奧良美術館，紐約市立博物館、休士頓攝影雙年展（FotoFest Biennial），以及非裔美國人博物館（費城）。他的作品出現在許多重要的典藏單位，包括黑格悌美術館（Haggerty Museum of Art）、歐格登南方藝術博物館（Ogden Museum of Southern Art）和美國國會圖書館。他的作品刊登於《紐約客》、《君子》，《哈潑》、《巴黎評論》（The Paris Review），《光圈》、《Time》和《新聞周刊》，以及NPR、HBO和CNN；現居紐約。 LYLE REXER（萊爾．雷克斯） 萊爾．雷克斯是藝評、策展人和講師。他的最新著作是《The Edge of Vision: The R...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 When a widow tries to collect on her inheritance, her late husband's family is unpleasantly surprised. They're even more horrified by the news that this lovely stranger may be a bigamist. Now murder shakes the family tree, and it's time for Hercule Poirot to investigate.

在线阅读本书 When a widow tries to collect on her inheritance, her late husband's family is unpleasantly surprised. They're even more horrified by the news that this lovely stranger may be a bigamist. Now murder shakes the family tree, and it's time for Hercule Poirot to investigate.

"Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?" --Polybius, Histories The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 B...(展开全部)

The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when Rome overthrew the Macedonian monarchy and divided the country into four independent republics. This was the crucial half-century of Rome's spectacular rise to imperial status, but Roman interest in its eastern neighbors began a little earlier, with the First Illy...(展开全部)

The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdiscipli...(展开全部)

The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdiscipli...(展开全部)

"Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?" --Polybius, Histories The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 B...(展开全部)

The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when Rome overthrew the Macedonian monarchy and divided the country into four independent republics. This was the crucial half-century of Rome's spectacular rise to imperial status, but Roman interest in its eastern neighbors began a little earlier, with the First Illy...(展开全部)