费莉希蒂·海斯-麦科伊出生在爱尔兰的都柏林。作为一名撰稿人，她的作品所涉及的领域包括电视和广播戏剧、故事片、纪录片、剧本和改编本，电影剧本，音乐剧本，儿童文学和互动多媒体作品。 她的丈夫威尔弗雷德·贾锝是一名歌剧导演，他们夫妻二人平时居住在爱尔兰的寇卡戴瑞夫尼和伦敦的博蒙德塞区。烹饪，园艺和写作是她最喜欢的事情。 《世界尽头的图书馆》是她的小说处女作。

Even the most enthusiastic of maths students probably at one time wondered when exactly it would all prove useful in ‘real life’. Well, maths reaches so far and wide through our world that, love it or hate it, we’re all doing maths almost every minute of every day. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee go in search of the perfect labyrinth, journey back to the second century in pur...(展开全部)

Even the most enthusiastic of maths students probably at one time wondered when exactly it would all prove useful in ‘real life’. Well, maths reaches so far and wide through our world that, love it or hate it, we’re all doing maths almost every minute of every day. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee go in search of the perfect labyrinth, journey back to the second century in pur...(展开全部)

作者: 2005年4月19日當選羅馬天主教會第265任教宗。新教宗取名號「本篤」。曾任梵蒂岡信理聖部部長二十餘年，任教德國各大學。在梵蒂岡大公會議中為神學專家，任教宗後已從事多項改革，包括梵蒂岡內部精簡及分職治理。 譯者: 1991年 畢業於北京大學西語系 1991年~1997年在德國Bochum大學學習現當代德語文學、中古德語文學及天主教神學，獲博士學位 1998年　開始在北京大學任教，主要研究方向為德語成長發展小說、德語文學與基督宗教文化。曾發表過德語文學方面專著、譯著、論文以及基督宗教文化方面譯著、譯文若干。 校對者簡介： 天主教神父，耶穌會會士，聖經神學類著作豐碩，為享譽教內外、海內外的知名聖經學者。 1926年　生於中國安徽省貴池縣 1947年　赴歐洲義大利、西班牙、德國等地留學 1963年　獲聖經學博士 1964年　開始輔大神學院執教，曾...(展开全部)

The astonishing tale of the first sea voyage to circumnavigate the entire globe. Magellan's dramatic maritime expedition in 1519 discovered the straits that enabled Europe to trade with the Eastern spice islands and changed the course of history. In an era of intense commercial rivalry between Spain and Portugal, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator sailed to explore the...(展开全部)

Noise, an underground music genre made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational ...(展开全部)

Noise, an underground music genre made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational ...(展开全部)

First Light is perhaps the best book about astronomy ever written. It tells the story of the men and women at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California who peer through the amazing Hale Telescope at the farthest edges of space, attempting to solve the riddle of the beginning of time. "Science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize," Pr...(展开全部)

Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California to peer to the farthe...(展开全部)

The cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. Why then and not earlier? Why there and not elsewhere? In The World at First Light, historian Bernd Roeck explores the cultural and historical preconditions that enabled the European Renaissance. Roeck shows that the rediscovery of ancient knowledge, including the science of the medi...(展开全部)