The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts.

在线阅读本书 Book Description She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatically change the course of world events -- if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient and mysterious assassin, a...(展开全部)

扶霞·邓洛普 英国人，中文名叫邓扶霞。 成长在英国牛津，曾在剑桥大学学习英国文学，后再伦敦亚非学院中国研究专业取得硕士学位。1994年获得英国文化教育协会奖学金，在四川大学交流学习一年。之后在四川烹饪高等专科学校学习专业厨艺，成为该校第一位外国学生。 扶霞研究中国烹饪及中国饮食文化20余年，曾四次获得美食界“奥斯卡”詹姆斯·比尔德烹饪写作大奖。 她把自己对中国美食的热爱写成了书，著有《川菜》《鱼米之乡》《鱼翅与花椒》等。

An essential update of Fuchsia Dunlop’s landmark book on Sichuan cuisine, with 200 recipes and stunning photographs. Almost twenty years after the publication of Land of Plenty, considered by many to be one of the greatest cookbooks of all time, Fuchsia Dunlop revisits the region where her own culinary journey began, adding more than 70 new recipes to the original repertoire an...(展开全部)

Over the past two years, food prices have soared -- and plummeted. As crops are increasingly shifted to biofuel production, will food prices soar again? Will people starve as a result? What are the hidden relationships between the food on your plate and the gas in your car? Will economic recovery lead directly to massive price inflation in both food and energy? In this book, on...(展开全部)

Over the past two years, food prices have soared -- and plummeted. As crops are increasingly shifted to biofuel production, will food prices soar again? Will people starve as a result? What are the hidden relationships between the food on your plate and the gas in your car? Will economic recovery lead directly to massive price inflation in both food and energy? In this book, on...(展开全部)

Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War Two raging around her, one young girl is struggling to make sense of her life. Then she is given a book of ancient Norse legends and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Intensely autobigraphical and linguistically stunning, this book is a landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's truly great writers....(展开全部)

A.S.拜雅特，1936年生于英国，1990年凭借近50万字的长篇小说《隐之书》摘获英国布克小说奖，2008年跻身《泰晤士报》评选的“1945年以来英国最重要的50位作家”之列。 主要作品有长篇小说《太阳影子》（1964）、《游戏》（1968）、《花园处子》（1978）、《宁静生活》（1985）、《隐之书》（1990），以及中短篇小说集《夜莺眼中的精灵》等。 她的作品因处于大众阅读和严肃阅读之间，常常引起评论界和读者的剧烈争论。但是，因其文学功底的博大精深、作品架构的宏阔气魄、情节的奇绝、文字的精巧，又常常令人在惊叹之余，纷纷放弃争论。

In the footsteps of Margaret Atwood''s bestselling Penelopiad comes an intensely autobiographical and timely tale from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and The Children''s Book. Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose...(展开全部)

This richly illustrated book is the first to apply the discoveries of the new generation of food historians to the pleasures of dining and the culinary accomplishments of diverse civilizations, past and present. Editor Paul Freedman has gathered essays by French, German, Belgian, American, and British historians to present a comprehensive, chronological history of taste from pr...(展开全部)