In this "crime puzzle of the first order" (New York Times), an ordinary flight to London turns extraordinary when a female passenger is shot to death with a venom-tipped dart. Even more bizarre is that the murder went unnoticed by everyone on board-- including the brilliant Hercule Poirot.

From Seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was t...(展开全部)

美国当代著名的作家、翻译家、汉学家。1970进入哥伦比亚大学攻读人类学博士，机缘巧合之下学习中文，从此爱上中国文化。1972年，比尔赴台湾一所寺庙修行，在那里过起暮鼓晨钟的隐居生活；1991年，他又辗转至香港某广播电台工作，并开始长期在中国大陆旅行，撰写了大量介绍中国风土人情的书籍和游记，同时翻译多部佛学经典和诗集，在欧美各国掀起了一股学习中国传统文化的热潮。 比尔关于中国隐者的作品《空谷幽兰》出版后，受到读者的热烈欢迎，一版再版，畅销至今。2010年，他又相继推出了追溯中国禅宗文化与历史的《禅的行囊》，以及追寻黄河源头的《黄河之旅》、追溯中华文明史上最辉煌篇章的《丝绸之路》。这些关于中国文化之旅的游记作品同样受到了读者的喜爱，并得到安妮宝贝、安意如、陈坤等人的鼎力推荐。 多年来比尔一直坚持深入中国偏远地区寻访人文遗迹，并用胶卷和文字记录旅途的艰险与...(展开全部)

Between Winds and Clouds tells the two-thousand-year history of Yunnan, an ethnic frontier bordered by Tibet, mainland Southeast Asia, and southwest China. Yunnan's prime geographic location turned the site into a center of cross-regional trade, and consequently, it became a desirable conquest for Eurasian rivals. Bin Yang details the fight for military control of Yunnan and it...(展开全部)

A quirky, clever guide for everyone who loves to look up. Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Journalist and lifelong sky watcher Gavin Pretor-Pinney reveals everything there is to know about clouds, from history and science to art ...(展开全部)

From early times, Daoist writers claimed to receive scriptures via revelation from heavenly beings. In numerous cases, these writings were composed over the course of many nights and by different mediums. New revelations were often hastily appended, and the resulting unevenness gave rise to the impression that Daoist texts often appear slapdash and contain contradictions. A Lib...(展开全部)

约翰·杜海姆·彼得斯（John Durham Peters），美国当代著名的媒介史学家、传播理论家和传播哲学家，国际传播学会（ICA）会士，有“美国传播学界的稀有动物”之称，具有崇高声望。彼得斯为斯坦福大学传播学博士（1986），曾长期执教于艾奥瓦大学（1986-2016），任克雷格·贝尔德讲席教授，现为耶鲁大学英语、电影和媒介研究教授。著有《对空言说：传播的观念史》（1999）、《取悦深渊：自由言说与自由传统》（2005）、《奇云：媒介即存有》（2015）、《撒播知识：历史中的信息、图像和真理》（2020）。

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we often think of media as environments, the reve...(展开全部)