杰里米•普尔曼，生于英国，在英国接受教育，迄今已发表七部著作。他的第一部著作《关于亚利桑那州的有趣事实》为他赢得了英联邦作家大奖和最佳处女作奖。随后他又发表了《勇敢者之歌》《我的美国》和《皮肤》。他的纪实类作品包括为伊丽莎白•贝肯•卡斯特写的传记《掩藏的伤口》和为他曾曾祖父吉普赛•杰姆•梅斯所写的传记，他这位祖先是世界上最后一位不带手套拳击的重量级世界冠军。

The Road of Bones is the story of Russia's greatest road. For over 200 years, the route of the Vladimirka Road has been at the centre of the nation's history, having witnessed everything from the first human footsteps to the rise of Putin and his oil-rich oligarchy. Tsars, wars, famine and wealth: all have crossed and travelled this road, but no-one has ever told its story. In...(展开全部)

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From Vialli, one of Italy’s most famous footballers as well as a former manager of England’s Chelsea F.C., and Marcotti, the UK correspondent for Corriere dello Sport and football columnist for The Times , comes this unique journey to the heart of two great soccer cultures.-- From the Hardcover edition.

The dark side of "On the Road" instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life.Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, "Journey to the End ...(展开全部)

A classic of nineteenth-century French literature, this science fiction tale delves into the depths of the Earth, and by so doing, reveals the staggeringly long history of our planet. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES : ? A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information ? A chronology of the author's life and work ? A timeline of s...(展开全部)

The dark side of "On the Road" instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life.Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, "Journey to the End ...(展开全部)

For decades after identifying the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98% of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. Yet recently researchers have discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that underwrite a numb...(展开全部)

For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that ...(展开全部)

For decades, 98 per cent of our DNA was written off as 'junk' on the grounds that it did not code for proteins. From rare genetic diseases to Down's Syndrome, from viral infections to the ageing process, only now are the effects and the vital functions of these junk regions beginning to emerge. Scientists' rapidly growing knowledge of this often controversial field has already ...(展开全部)