彼得•汉密尔顿 生于1960年，英国当代最受欢迎的科幻作家之一。汉密尔顿最知名的作品是以联邦（Confederation）宇宙为背景的“夜之曙三部曲”，以人类国协（Commonwealth）宇宙为背景的“国协三部曲”“虚空三部曲”等。短篇小说《桑尼的优势》被改编为大热美剧《爱，死亡和机器人》的首集。 汉密尔顿曾荣获英伦科幻奖最佳短篇小说奖，并多次获得包括雨果奖、克拉克奖、英伦科幻奖在内的多个奖项的提名，作品被翻译为十余种语言，全球范围内销量突破三百万册。 《圣天秤星》是擅写多卷本太空歌剧的汉密尔顿少有的单部头小说，入选当年的《出版人周刊》年度最佳图书书单。

彼得•汉密尔顿 生于1960年，英国当代最受欢迎的科幻作家之一。汉密尔顿最知名的作品是以联邦（Confederation）宇宙为背景的“夜之曙三部曲”，以人类国协（Commonwealth）宇宙为背景的“国协三部曲”“虚空三部曲”等。短篇小说《桑尼的优势》被改编为大热美剧《爱，死亡和机器人》的首集。 汉密尔顿曾荣获英伦科幻奖最佳短篇小说奖，并多次获得包括雨果奖、克拉克奖、英伦科幻奖在内的多个奖项的提名，作品被翻译为十余种语言，全球范围内销量突破三百万册。 《圣天秤星》是擅写多卷本太空歌剧的汉密尔顿少有的单部头小说，入选当年的《出版人周刊》年度最佳图书书单。

New York Times bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton’s riveting new thriller combines the nail-biting suspense of a serial-killer investigation with clear-eyed scientific and social extrapolation to create a future that seems not merely plausible but inevitable. A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humanity has solved i...(展开全部)

A1 - The Great North Road was Paul Graham's first book, published in 1983. Despite the UK having a vibrant photographic scene at the time, there were only handful of monographic books - Chris Killip and Martin Parr had one each - and no dedicated publishers or distributors. Graham had to self-publish A1, but as the first colour book, it had a startling impact on British photogr...(展开全部)

Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a sing...(展开全部)

Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era. With one foot in the socialist Second World and the other in the anticolonial Third World, North Korea occupied a unique position as both a postcolonial nation and a Soviet client state, ...(展开全部)

Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era. With one foot in the socialist Second World and the other in the anticolonial Third World, North Korea occupied a unique position as both a postcolonial nation and a Soviet client state, ...(展开全部)

As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Net...(展开全部)

艾温·威·蒂尔（1899-1980），美国著名博物学家，摄影家、自然文学作家，生于伊利诺州，曾任纽约昆虫协会、布鲁克林昆虫协会主席、梭罗协会主席，美国皇家摄影协会会员。他配有自己拍摄的照片的自然图书以准确的科学信息和诗意的表达方式而著称，获得包括普利策奖和约翰·伯勒斯勋章在内的多个奖项。