A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist spends a year immersed in the high-pressure world of a competitive public high school—where teens chase 4.0 grades point averages, survive on as little as four hours of sleep, and chug lattes like water—and discovers the human story of what it takes to be a top student in America. Humes introduces a cast of passionate students, and touches on...(展开全部)

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver ev...(展开全部)

Paul G. Hewitt， 美国概念物理教学的先驱，是美国多所大学、中学的客座教师。其编写的教材深受广大读者欢迎。

Paul G. Hewitt， 美国概念物理教学的先驱，是美国多所大学、中学的客座教师。其编写的教材深受广大读者欢迎。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

From the bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal, internationalmaster of intrigue Frederick Forsyth, comes a thriller that brilliantlyblends fact with fiction for one of this summer's--or any season's--mostexplosive reads! From the behind-the-scenes decision-making of the Allies to the secret meetings of Saddam Hussein's war cabinet, from the brave American fliers running ...(展开全部)

劳拉.金（Laurie R. King）， 出生于1952年，美国著名推理小说家，著作数十部，部部登上畅销书排行榜，其中“玛丽.罗素与大侦探福尔摩斯”系列令其声名远播。 迄今她已获得或提名了几乎全部推理界的奖项，堪称阿加莎.克里斯蒂之后的女性推理小说家*一人。这些奖项包括美国侦探作家协会颁发的全世界侦探小说*权*奖项埃德加.爱伦.坡奖，美国国家悬疑作品协会颁发的美国*著名推理小说奖项阿加莎奖，英国*重要的文学奖项之一橘子奖，以及尼禄.沃尔夫奖、克利西奖、麦克维蒂奖、巴利奖等等。 对立与争夺渐渐浮出水面。

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van La...(展开全部)

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van La...(展开全部)

In Laurie R. King’s latest Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspense—as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice. It began as a problem in one of Holmes’ beloved beehives, led to a murderous cult, and ended—or so th...(展开全部)