The best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo Padura. Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his creative dreams for a job in corporate advertising, a highly cultured aspiring composer wants ...(展开全部)

Translated into twenty languages and published in more than fourteen Spanish editions, The Lost Steps, originally published in 1953, is Alejo Carpentier's most heralded novel.A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey with his mistress to one of the few remaining areas of the world not yet touched by civilization -- the upper reaches of a great Sou...(展开全部)

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.</P> In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the sing...(展开全部)

特里·普拉切特是当代最著名的幽默奇幻作家，同时也是英语文坛最具影响力的讽刺作家之一。被人誉为“笔锋犀利、擅于讽刺的J·R·R·托尔金”。 深受读者推崇的“碟形世界”系列奇幻小说是普拉切特的代表作品，为他赢得了世界声誉。该系列从1983年《魔法的颜色》问世算起，到2006年，共出版了36部长篇小说，其中多部被改编成了漫画、动画、舞台剧、电视剧、广播剧、桌面游戏和电脑游戏等。截至2007年2月，普拉切特的作品在全球累计销售5000万册。

特里·普拉切特是当代最著名的幽默奇幻作家，同时也是英语文坛最具影响力的讽刺作家之一。被人誉为“笔锋犀利、擅于讽刺的J·R·R·托尔金”。 深受读者推崇的“碟形世界”系列奇幻小说是普拉切特的代表作品，为他赢得了世界声誉。该系列从1983年《魔法的颜色》问世算起，到2006年，共出版了36部长篇小说，其中多部被改编成了漫画、动画、舞台剧、电视剧、广播剧、桌面游戏和电脑游戏等。截至2007年2月，普拉切特的作品在全球累计销售5000万册。

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.</P> In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the sing...(展开全部)

Differential geometry arguably offers the smoothest transition from the standard university mathematics sequence of the first four semesters in calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations to the higher levels of abstraction and proof encountered at the upper division by mathematics majors. Today it is possible to describe differential geometry as "the study of structur...(展开全部)

In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seemingly ordinary ability is. A seven-million-year journey to the very origins of the human lineage, First Steps shows how upright walking was a gateway to many of the other attributes that make us human—from our technological abilities, our thirst for exploration, our use of languag...(展开全部)

Differential geometry arguably offers the smoothest transition from the standard university mathematics sequence of the first four semesters in calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations to the higher levels of abstraction and proof encountered at the upper division by mathematics majors. Today it is possible to describe differential geometry as "the study of structur...(展开全部)

The World's Greatest Comic Magazine - and subject of the upcoming blockbuster motion picture - at long last makes its long-awaited debut in the Ultimate Marvel Universe! Witness the beginnings of the Four - Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, Susan Storm and Ben Grimm - super-hero icons for the new century! When high-school genius Reed Richards enrolls at a secret government-sponsored...(展开全部)