The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and storm, flight and pursuit. Anyone who enjoys The Woman i...(展开全部)

托马斯·哈代(1840-1928)，英国最杰出的乡土小说家、诗人，著有多部长篇小说、中短篇小说及诗集，作品多以故乡英格兰多切斯特为背景，富有浓厚的地方色彩。他是横跨两个世纪的作家，继承和发扬了维多利亚时代的文学传统，开拓了英国20世纪的文学。其最著名的作品有《德伯家的苔丝》《无名的裘德》《还乡》《卡斯特桥市长》等。

在线阅读本书 Hardy described "Desperate Remedies" as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative...(展开全部)

"A vibrant telling, amplified by striking images and photographs, of the Curiosity mission to Mars....A totally gratifying account." --Kirkus Reviews "Kaufman’s vivid description of the Curiosity rover mission to Mars, its history and its scientific results brings you as close as possible (without being a member of the science team) to the excitement, the frustration and the ex...(展开全部)

本书的两位作者分别是美国宇航局（NASA）前顾问、哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）科学部顾问里理查德•霍格兰德和NASA航空航天工程顾问麦克•巴拉。在本书中，他们披露了由NASA实施“阿波罗登月计划”时的“月球接收实验室数据和图片控制部”前主管肯•约翰斯顿提供的大量内部信息，向世人展示了一个被NASA蓄意隐瞒了40年的惊人事实：智能生物曾在人类之前到过月球，并留有遗迹。 理查德•霍格兰除此书外尚著有畅销书《火星上的建筑》。麦克•巴拉则著有《融合》。

本书的两位作者分别是美国宇航局（NASA）前顾问、哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）科学部顾问里理查德•霍格兰德和NASA航空航天工程顾问麦克•巴拉。在本书中，他们披露了由NASA实施“阿波罗登月计划”时的“月球接收实验室数据和图片控制部”前主管肯•约翰斯顿提供的大量内部信息，向世人展示了一个被NASA蓄意隐瞒了40年的惊人事实：智能生物曾在人类之前到过月球，并留有遗迹。 理查德•霍格兰除此书外尚著有畅销书《火星上的建筑》。麦克•巴拉则著有《融合》。

The Bad Guys next mission? Rescue 10,000 chickens from a high-tech cage farm. But they are up against sizzling lasers, one feisty tarantula, and their very own Mr. Snake...who's also known as "The Chicken Swallower." What could possibly go wrong? Get ready to laugh up your lunch with the baddest bunch of do-gooders in town!