Quintaglio Ascension Series：Book 1 <Far-Seer> The Face of God is what every young saurian learns to call the immense, glowing object which fills the night sky on the far side of the world. Young Afsan is privileged, called to the distant Capital City to apprentice with Saleed the court astrologer. But when the time comes for Afsan to make his coming-of-age pilgrimage, to gaze u...(展开全部)

The Face of God is what every young saurian learns to call the immense, glowing object which fills the night sky on the far side of the world. Young Afsan is privileged, called to the distant Capital City to apprentice with Saleed the court astrologer. Buth when the time comes for Afsan to make his coming-of-age pilgrimage, to gaze upon the Face of God, his world is changed for...(展开全部)

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.

The concept of multiple unperceived dimensions in the universe is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It is essential to current attempts to explain gravity and the underlying structure of the universe. The Great Beyond begins with Einstein’s famous quarrel with Heisenberg and Bohr, whose theories of uncertainty threatened the order Einstein believed was essent...(展开全部)

The Prussian king Frederick II (1712–1786) is perhaps best known for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, and Russia during the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), a feat that allowed Great Britain to limit its engagement on the Continent and emerge as the world’s leading colonial power, as summed up in William Pitt’s fam...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature, forming a long-lasting but turbulent friendship with Voltaire. He was a military genius and enlarged the borders of his empir...(展开全部)

1904年11月28日，南希•米特福德出生于伦敦。她是里兹代尔男爵二世家族的长女，下面有五个妹妹，包括戴安娜•莫斯利夫人、德文郡公爵夫人黛博拉（Deborah）和杰西卡。在自传《荣耀与背叛》（Hons and Rebels）一书中，杰西卡向世人描述了米特福德家族的历史。米特福德姐妹在“咆哮的20年代”（Roaring Twenties）和伦敦的战火中长大成人，并因她们的美貌，她们身上那股上流社会的玩世作风以及政治方面的忠贞不二而闻名于世。南希曾为《女士》（The Lady）和《星期日泰晤士报》（Sunday Times）撰写过专栏文章，也曾创作过一系列流行小说，其中包括《追逐爱情》和《恋恋冬季》。这两部作品详细叙述了拉德利特（Radlett）六姐妹各自的上流社会恋情。在20世纪50年代，南希开始创作历史人物传记。她的作品《太阳王》记述了路易十四的生平...(展开全部)

1904年11月28日，南希•米特福德出生于伦敦。她是里兹代尔男爵二世家族的长女，下面有五个妹妹，包括戴安娜•莫斯利夫人、德文郡公爵夫人黛博拉（Deborah）和杰西卡。在自传《荣耀与背叛》（Hons and Rebels）一书中，杰西卡向世人描述了米特福德家族的历史。米特福德姐妹在“咆哮的20年代”（Roaring Twenties）和伦敦的战火中长大成人，并因她们的美貌，她们身上那股上流社会的玩世作风以及政治方面的忠贞不二而闻名于世。南希曾为《女士》（The Lady）和《星期日泰晤士报》（Sunday Times）撰写过专栏文章，也曾创作过一系列流行小说，其中包括《追逐爱情》和《恋恋冬季》。这两部作品详细叙述了拉德利特（Radlett）六姐妹各自的上流社会恋情。在20世纪50年代，南希开始创作历史人物传记。她的作品《太阳王》记述了路易十四的生平...(展开全部)

It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them?and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, available for the first time in paperback. These are men and women who changed our perception of the w...(展开全部)

F.R. Leavis was born in 1895 in Cambridge, where he would live and teach for most of the rest of his life. He volunteered as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War, and was badly gassed on the Western Front. Appointed Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1930, he remained there for the next thirty years, often at odds with the University establish...(展开全部)