Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and shared with Earth-bound audiences the view of their own planet hanging in the sky instead. Recently, the connection has been discovered to be even closer: a fragment of the Earth's surface was found embedded in a rock b...(展开全部)

Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the slow, fragmented, and contentious transformation of Dabaodao—an area in the c...(展开全部)

'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday If you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a revelation! Here in four stories we track their partnership from curtain-up to last act; from the mean streets of Mid-Yorkshire to...(展开全部)

雷吉纳德•希尔Reginald Charles Hill （1936—2012 ） 雷吉纳德•希尔出生于英国的达勒姆郡。一九六〇年自牛津大学圣凯瑟琳学院毕业后任职教育界，一九八一年起专职写作。在他的系列罪案小说中，他刻画的人物形象“达尔齐尔和帕斯科”被英国《每日电讯报》称为“罪案现场最佳神探二人组”。英国媒体盛赞他为“英国在世最优秀的罪案作家”。著有最具反差性格却最有默契的“达尔齐尔和帕斯科”警探系列。这套以英国约克郡为故事场景的系列作品，已创作二十余部，声势至今不坠。此成就也使作者成为推理文坛的佼佼者。 希尔的小说中时常展其深厚的文学功力及周密的布局思考，角色塑造鲜明生动，对白机智风趣，擅长描绘人性的恐惧与失落，在营造紧张气氛上则熟练而有节奏；故事结构往往多线交错，却时时点缀从未失手的幽默氛围，然而谜团的设计合情入理，给人相当真实的感受。在一九七〇...(展开全部)

雷吉纳德•希尔Reginald Charles Hill （1936—2012 ） 雷吉纳德•希尔出生于英国的达勒姆郡。一九六〇年自牛津大学圣凯瑟琳学院毕业后任职教育界，一九八一年起专职写作。在他的系列罪案小说中，他刻画的人物形象“达尔齐尔和帕斯科”被英国《每日电讯报》称为“罪案现场最佳神探二人组”。英国媒体盛赞他为“英国在世最优秀的罪案作家”。著有最具反差性格却最有默契的“达尔齐尔和帕斯科”警探系列。这套以英国约克郡为故事场景的系列作品，已创作二十余部，声势至今不坠。此成就也使作者成为推理文坛的佼佼者。 希尔的小说中时常展其深厚的文学功力及周密的布局思考，角色塑造鲜明生动，对白机智风趣，擅长描绘人性的恐惧与失落，在营造紧张气氛上则熟练而有节奏；故事结构往往多线交错，却时时点缀从未失手的幽默氛围，然而谜团的设计合情入理，给人相当真实的感受。在一九七〇...(展开全部)

Pascoe's Ghost finds the inspector investigating the fate of a woman who seems to have slipped out of the world, and hasn't been seen by a soul for a year-unless you count her brother, who claims her ghost is haunting him. Dalziel's Ghost sees the man who normally wouldn't be seen dead in a graveyard expressing a surprising interest in "the other side". One Small Step, looks to...(展开全部)

Where does philosophy, the oldest academic subject, stand at the beginning of the new millennium? This remarkable volume brings together leading figures from most major branches of the discipline to offer answers. What remains of the 'linguistic turn' in twentieth-century philosophy? How should moral philosophy respond to and incorporate developments in empirical psychology? Wh...(展开全部)

This hardcover edition is available only in a premium, full-cloth binding. It will not ship with a dust jacket. New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy and growth obsolete. In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel and C.K. P...(展开全部)

Where does philosophy, the oldest academic subject, stand at the beginning of the new millennium? This remarkable volume brings together leading figures from most major branches of the discipline to offer answers. What remains of the 'linguistic turn' in twentieth-century philosophy? How should moral philosophy respond to and incorporate developments in empirical psychology? Wh...(展开全部)