“This book shows how a flight to Mars has progressed from fantasy to … a reality that can be achieved by us. Zubrin is showing us the way.” -- Buzz Aldrin Just in time for the Mars Science Lab mission Since the beginning of human history, Mars has been an alluring dream – the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 teve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at what it took for rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in Janu...(展开全部)

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier） 牛津大学经济学教授，非洲经济研究中心主任和圣安东尼学院院士；曾任世界银行研发中心主任，英国政府非洲委员会顾问；非洲经济问题的权威专家之一，被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志列入“全球顶尖思想家”。 曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖（The Lionel Gelber Prize）、克林纳国际书卷奖（Corine- Internationaler Buchpreis）、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖（Arthur Ross Book Award）及埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖（Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize）等。 除备受赞誉的《最底层的十亿人》（The Bottom Billion）外，他还出版了《战争、枪炮和选举：危险地区的民主》（Wars，Guns，an...(展开全部)

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier） 牛津大学经济学教授，非洲经济研究中心主任和圣安东尼学院院士；曾任世界银行研发中心主任，英国政府非洲委员会顾问；非洲经济问题的权威专家之一，被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志列入“全球顶尖思想家”。 曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖（The Lionel Gelber Prize）、克林纳国际书卷奖（Corine- Internationaler Buchpreis）、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖（Arthur Ross Book Award）及埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖（Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize）等。 除备受赞誉的《最底层的十亿人》（The Bottom Billion）外，他还出版了《战争、枪炮和选举：危险地区的民主》（Wars，Guns，an...(展开全部)

The Mars Quartet: Four Seminars on the Astrology of the Red Planet Lynn Bell, Darby Costello, Liz Greene, Melanie Reinhart These seminars explore the many facets of Mars, an astrological symbol often misunderstood. In the present world climate, it is particularly important to consider this most instinctive and fundamental human urge. Named after the Roman god of war, Mars is us...(展开全部)

The truth is, warfare shouldn't happen - and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries at any given moment and yet only a tiny fraction erupt into prolonged fighting. Most books on conflict forget this. So in those rare instances of war, what broke down and kept the sides from compromise? From unchecked interests and intangible incent...(展开全部)

An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process. It's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. It's also easy to forget that war shouldn't happen--and most of the time it do...(展开全部)

The truth is, warfare shouldn't happen - and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries at any given moment and yet only a tiny fraction erupt into prolonged fighting. Most books on conflict forget this. So in those rare instances of war, what broke down and kept the sides from compromise? From unchecked interests and intangible incent...(展开全部)

An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process. It's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. It's also easy to forget that war shouldn't happen--and most of the time it do...(展开全部)

A wry and compelling take on the who, how, and why of near-future colonies in space. From bone-whittling microgravity to eye-popping profits, the risks and rewards of space settlement have never been so close at hand. More than fifty years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, why is there so little human presence in space? Will we ever reach Mars? What will it take to become a mul...(展开全部)