●作者简介 汉密尔顿•达尔比•佩里（Hamilton Darby Perry，1924-2009），美国军事史学者。毕业于普林斯顿大学，第二次世界大战期间，曾于美国海军服役，获得过嘉奖。退役后从事 文稿写作，担任过多家媒体的记者、出版人，著有《“帕内”号疑云》《利比•霍尔曼》等多部非虚构类图书。 ●译者简介 汪伟，独立制作人、编剧、导演， 1990年毕业于国际关系学院，1998年毕业于北京电影学院，获电影学硕士学位。曾任中央电视台电影频道《世界电影之旅》制作总监，拍摄纪录片作品《霞客行》 等。

"The Road to Victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa".

His eyes were open now, watching the path of the tiny flame. If you continue your path, little spark, you will cause great harm.I must burn! I must live!There are places where your glow and heat are welcome. Find them, do not destroy the dwellings or take the lives of my people!For a second, he seemed to wink out of existence but then blazed back with renewed vigor.Thrall knew ...(展开全部)

In this lively and stimulating account, noted mathematician and educator W. W. Sawyer (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto) defines mathematics as "the classification and study of all possible patterns." It is a broad definition, but one that seems appropriate to the great scope and depth of the topic. Indeed, mathematics seems to have few boundaries, either in applicatio...(展开全部)

From Library Journal ea. vol: Penguin. 2001. photogs. bibliog. index. pap. $20.95.HIST Prange's twin volumes offer everything you always wanted to know about Pearl Harbor but were afraid to ask， plus pictures! Together， these tomes comprise an exhaustive study of the day that will live in infamy. Prange takes a long， hard look at President Roosevelt's relationship with Jap...(展开全部)

Follow the story of Beatrice in Volume One, "Lady Pokingham," where sordid adventures in the sexual underworld are commonplace, and virginal fantasies, flagellation, and Catholic guilt manifest themselves as streams of erotic poetry. In Volume Two, "La Rose d'Amour," a young man is influenced by his lusty young cousins, who invite him to join an illicit club of debauchery and b...(展开全部)

“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americas greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation ...(展开全部)

How can the United States avoid a future surprise attack on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, in an era when such devastating attacks can come not only from nation states, but also from terrorist groups or cyber enemies? Intelligence and Surprise Attack examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though, in most cases, warnings had been available beforehand. Erik J. Dahl ...(展开全部)

The dramatic account of one of America’s most celebrated―and controversial―military campaigns: the Doolittle Raid. In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors to plan an ambitious counterstrike against the heart of the Japanese Empire: Tokyo. Four months later, on April 18, 1942...(展开全部)