The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'. 'Ghosting' introduces us to ...(展开全部)

The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'. 'Ghosting' introduces us to ...(展开全部)

Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg's revolutionary writing and life practice, which she details in The True Secret of Writing, her first book on the silent intensives she has taught for over a decade in small groups in Taos, New Mexico. This is a whole new slant on writing since her perennial bestseller, Writing Down the Bones-and it's now availabl...(展开全部)

"The Red Notebook" brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster's short, true-life storiesa remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality. Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including "The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr...(展开全部)

★国家公共广播电台年度图书之一 由我们杰出的医学史学家之一撰写的揭开DNA结构的竞赛的专业性历史。 詹姆斯·沃森和弗朗西斯-克里克于1953年发现了DNA的双螺旋结构，这是我们对遗传学和分子生物学的现代理解中几乎所有进步的基础。但沃森和克里克是如何做到这一点的--为什么他们是成功者？ 事实上，DNA结构的发现是五个追求科学进步的杰出人物的故事，对他们中的几乎所有人来说，都是追求名利和不朽的前景： 沃森、克里克、罗莎琳-富兰克林、莫里斯-威尔金斯和莱纳斯-鲍林。他们每个人都很有魅力和才华，具有强烈的个性，经常发生冲突。霍华德-马克尔巧妙地再现了激烈的智力旅程和充满矛盾的个人关系，导致了惊人的突破。但是，罗莎琳-富兰克林——在20世纪50年代的剑桥和伦敦大学，作为年轻的男性科学家中的犹太女性，她是一个坚定的、无情的、局外人——成为马可的焦点。 《生命的秘...(展开全部)

An authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it―and why were they the ones who succeed...(展开全部)

The Hasselblad award is an international photography award. Since 1980 it has been presented annually, with the exception of the year of Erna Hasselblad’s death, 1983. The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography is recognized as one of the most important prizes in the world today. The Hasselblad award is granted to “a photographer recognized for major achieveme...(展开全部)

In this best-selling collaboration between author (and performer) Jon Scieszka and illustrator Lane Smith, with music by noted composer Kurt Hoffman, you will hear Alexander T. Wolf tell the story from his point of view. Side one features narration and music, while side two has music alone, so that you can read it out loud by yourself. --This text refers to an out of print o...(展开全部)

In this best-selling collaboration between author (and performer) Jon Scieszka and illustrator Lane Smith, with music by noted composer Kurt Hoffman, you will hear Alexander T. Wolf tell the story from his point of view. Side one features narration and music, while side two has music alone, so that you can read it out loud by yourself. --This text refers to an out of print o...(展开全部)

The world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest scientific discoveries. "Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore."-- Newsweek