From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel—based on actual events—about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. T...(展开全部)

WELCOME TO NYC’S HOTTEST UNDERGROUND PARTIES If you missed last night’s party, here’s your VIP pass to New York City’s deliciously sexy club scene. It’s a voyeuristic spin with today’s downtown demimonde, where hipsters, rockers, celebrities, and drag queens meet and misbehave with unabashed enthusiasm. Bared flesh, intertwined tongues, and de rigueur attitudes are all captured...(展开全部)

In 1954．in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire，an anxious twelve—year-old boy fatallv mistakes the local constable’S girlfriend for a bear．Both the twelve-year．old and his father become fugitives—to Boston，to southern Vermont，to Toronto—pursued over the years by the implacable constable．Their lone protector IS a fiercely libertarian logge...(展开全部)

1954, a twelve year old mistakenly believes the girlfriend of the village police for a bear - the beginning of a decades-long flight. With his father he fled from New Hampshire to Boston from Vermont to Toronto, the relentless cop them always on their heels. The only protection granted them a wood workers with whom they befriend. Over five decades, stretches this father-son sto...(展开全部)

In 1954．in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire，an anxious twelve—year-old boy fatallv mistakes the local constable’S girlfriend for a bear．Both the twelve-year．old and his father become fugitives—to Boston，to southern Vermont，to Toronto—pursued over the years by the implacable constable．Their lone protector IS a fiercely libertarian logge...(展开全部)

1954, a twelve year old mistakenly believes the girlfriend of the village police for a bear - the beginning of a decades-long flight. With his father he fled from New Hampshire to Boston from Vermont to Toronto, the relentless cop them always on their heels. The only protection granted them a wood workers with whom they befriend. Over five decades, stretches this father-son sto...(展开全部)

Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller uses his evocative powers and the insight gained by four years in the forests of the Wolong and Tangjiahe panda reserves to document the pli...(展开全部)

Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.

在线阅读本书 "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled " The Last Lecture ." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was o...(展开全部)

Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.