After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century”: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, vowing to make one of the most important archae...(展开全部)

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes...(展开全部)

道格拉斯·普雷斯顿（Douglas Preston），曾在美国自然历史博物馆工作八年，做过编辑、撰稿人和出版经理，并在普林斯顿大学教授过写作课。他也是《纽约客》《自然历史》《国家地理》《哈珀斯》《史密森尼》《大西洋月刊》等杂志的特约撰稿人，著有《神秘黄金城》（Cities of Gold）等作品。 普雷斯顿也是一位畅销小说作家，他与林肯·柴尔德（Lincoln Child）联手打造的FBI探员彭德格斯特（Pendergast）系列畅销小说，数次位居《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》的“畅销书排行榜”榜首，其中《遗迹》（Relic）和《佛罗伦萨的恶魔》（The Monster of Florence）被改编为热门电影。

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

In this founding work in the literature of black protest, first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy would only serve to perpetuate black oppression. Essential reading for...(展开全部)

Book Description "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the magnitude of American racism and demand an end t...(展开全部)

此书是美国当代杰出的和平战士、黑人解放运动领袖及知名学者杜波伊（1868～1963） 斯发表于本世纪初的一本散文集，也是他的第一部文学作品。本书一共包括14 篇论文、杂感、随笔和小说。 作者怀着沉痛的心情在这部作品里叙述了美 国黑人在南北战争结束后到 19 世纪末这一阶段的苦难经历，道出了黑人的悲 哀和要求解放的心愿。描写生动而真实，具有巨大的艺术感染力。书出版后 立即受到读者的喜爱，而且成为当时刚兴起的黑人解放运动潮流的宣言。

In 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, sent a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to excavate the ancient site of Megiddo—Armageddon in the New Testament—which the Bible says was fortified by King Solomon. Their excavations made headlines around the world and shed light on one of the most legend...(展开全部)

In 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, sent a team of archaeologists to the Holy Land to excavate the ancient site of Megiddo—Armageddon in the New Testament—which the Bible says was fortified by King Solomon. Their excavations made headlines around the world and shed light on one of the most legend...(展开全部)