Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war. In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted to join the mujahedeen to fight the Soviets. The resulting book wasn...(展开全部)

《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》收录了超过80位一流国际插图设计师的445幅插图作品，力求把美洲、欧洲和亚洲的精彩插图一网打尽{《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》是一部适合专业人士和初学者阅读的，集合了来自全球的插图作者最新力作的综合性图鉴。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》由享有盛誉的设计师安格斯?黑兰德编纂，呈现出并代表了当前插图发展趋势和变革的多种风格、技术以及社会客观因素的广阔图景，它是对当代插图艺术的绝妙概括。因此，它对插图作者、平面造型设计师和任何致力于插图业的人士来说，都将是无价之宝。 每位艺术家的作品都配有作者自述和一段简短的、可以展示创作灵感及其作品和职业发展路径的叙述性文字。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》包括445幅插图，其中...(展开全部)

In this new brief introduction to the rich and complex discipline of sociology, Jon Witt cuts to the core of the sociological perspective, supplying answers to two main questions: "Why do we think the way we think?" and "Why do we act the way we act?" Providing students with a glimpse of the "Big Picture," the author offers a top-down look at the structure of society, which all...(展开全部)

《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》收录了超过80位一流国际插图设计师的445幅插图作品，力求把美洲、欧洲和亚洲的精彩插图一网打尽{《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》是一部适合专业人士和初学者阅读的，集合了来自全球的插图作者最新力作的综合性图鉴。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》由享有盛誉的设计师安格斯?黑兰德编纂，呈现出并代表了当前插图发展趋势和变革的多种风格、技术以及社会客观因素的广阔图景，它是对当代插图艺术的绝妙概括。因此，它对插图作者、平面造型设计师和任何致力于插图业的人士来说，都将是无价之宝。 每位艺术家的作品都配有作者自述和一段简短的、可以展示创作灵感及其作品和职业发展路径的叙述性文字。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》包括445幅插图，其中...(展开全部)

当代法国侦探小说作家，硕果仅存的坚持本格侦探小说创作的欧美作家，被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。 霍尔特一九五六年出生于法国东北部亚尔萨斯省的阿格诺。一九八七年以《第四扇门》一书获得干邑侦探小说奖而正式出道。之后陆续创作以“阿兰•图威斯特博士”为主人公的系列作品及其他系列作品，代表作有《第七重解答》、《达特穆尔的恶魔》、《恶狼之夜》等。霍尔特的绝大多数作品都是描写不可能犯罪的正统解谜之作，以密室、不在场证明、足迹消失等核心诡计为卖点，凭借异想天开的构思、缜密的逻辑推导以及意料之外、情理之中的解答征服了广大读者，成为当代欧美侦探小说作家中最为“古典”、“另类”的一位，是当之无愧的当代本格侦探小说的领军人物。

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.

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)

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)