The international bestseller chosen as Book of the Year by The Times, Evening Standard, Economist, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Herald, Observer, Guardian and New Statesman. "The most detailed [and thrilling] account we have of the events that led to the destruction of the twin towers." --- Observer, Book of the Year "Possibly the best book yet written on the ris...(展开全部)

Grade 1-6. Thompson creates a futuristic world in which the Earth is shrouded in a yellow, polluted mist and only the "weakest wash of sunshine" comes through. The richest man in the world and his grandson set out to penetrate the fog in order to see the sun. Collecting buildings from every continent, they spend years fabricating a tower. Finally, the leaning tower of Pisa is s...(展开全部)

Set in the popular tourist attraction in present-day London, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is an exquisite story of love, loss, and a one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet. Balthazar Jones has lived and worked in the Tower of London for the past eight years. Being a Beefeater is no easy job, and when Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie of the many...(展开全部)

In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Afghanistan to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian who had infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as...(展开全部)

尼尔•弗格森 《时代周刊》“影响世界的100人”之一英国最著名的历史学家之一在历史、金融、媒体领域负有盛名的跨界学术专家哈佛大学历史系劳伦斯•A•蒂施教授牛津大学耶稣学院高级研究员斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员清华大学苏世民学院荣誉研究员罗斯柴尔德家族史研究权威著有《广场与高塔》《基辛格》《文明》《帝国》《金钱关系》《货币崛起》等超级畅销书

In 1933, Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. "The Road to Oxiana" offers not only a wonderful record of his adventures, but also a rare account of the architectural tre...(展开全部)

“I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it.”—David Brooks With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily live...(展开全部)

The follow-up to the acclaimed The Road to Stalingrad tells the compelling story of the Red Army's epic struggle to drive the Germans out of Russia and back to Berlin. Using Soviet, German, and Eastern European primary sources, John Erickson describes fighting and hardship on an almost unimaginable scale. The detailed narrative covers battles on all the fronts. The inside infor...(展开全部)

克里斯蒂·马克拉奇斯（Kristie Macrakis）：哈佛大学科学史博士，佐治亚理工学院教授，其兴趣在于科学技术史与间谍史的结合。她的文章见于《美国科学家》《情报员》《自然》等杂志。除本书外，她还著有《秘密的诱惑》《纳粹德国的科学研究》《东德的外国情报机构》 等作品。