The masterful conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize–winning Sands of the Emperor Trilogy. In The Drinker of Horizons, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between the young African woman Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo to its stirring close. We resume where The Sword and the Spear left off: Whi...(展开全部)

In The Drinker of Horizons, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between a young Mozambican woman named Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo to its moving close. We resume where The Sword and the Spear concluded: While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese military, Imani has been enlisted to act as the interpreter t...(展开全部)

作者： 詹姆斯·波斯基特 英国华威大学科技史系副教授，博士毕业于剑桥大学，并曾任剑桥大学达尔文学院的研究员，主要研究兴趣涉及现代早期到当代的科学史。 —————— 译者： 孙亚飞 译者，青年科普作家。于清华大学化学系获得博士学位。2010年开始从事科普工作，已出版著作《原子王国历险记》及译作《诗意的原子》等。

A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative. We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. The history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour. Copernicus relied on mathematic...(展开全部)

A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative. We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. The history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour. Copernicus relied on mathematic...(展开全部)

作者： 詹姆斯·波斯基特 英国华威大学科技史系副教授，博士毕业于剑桥大学，并曾任剑桥大学达尔文学院的研究员，主要研究兴趣涉及现代早期到当代的科学史。 —————— 译者： 孙亚飞 译者，青年科普作家。于清华大学化学系获得博士学位。2010年开始从事科普工作，已出版著作《原子王国历险记》及译作《诗意的原子》等。

"Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden." To Christina Olson, the entire world was her ...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has di...(展开全部)

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as we...(展开全部)