From the time of its first publication in 1960, Conrad Richter's The Waters of Kronos sparked lively debate about the extent to which its story of a belated return to childhood scenes mirrored key events of Richter's own life. As was well known at the time, Richter had spent several years in the Southwest, where he collected the material for his first successful book, Early Ame...(展开全部)

This book centers on the changes of polders and investigates the complex hydro-social relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China. Once a “hydraulic frontier” where local communities managed the polders, the Jianghan Plain became a state-led hydro-electric powerhouse by the mid-twentieth century. Through meticulous historical analysis, this book shows how water p...(展开全部)

Con la colaboracion de escritores como Carlos Monsivais, Pura Lopez Colome y Françoise Perus, el escritor Arturo Azuela coordina un estudio de la novela de Yanez, respaldado en una minuciosa investigacion sobre la historia de sus ediciones y consecuentes variantes, la recepcion critica, el contexto historico literario, la poetica narrativa y la historia personal del nove...(展开全部)

He survived a terrifying crocodile attack off Australia's Queensland coast, blood poisoning in the middle of the Pacific, malaria in Indonesia and China, and acute mountain sickness in the Himalayas. He was hit by a car and left for dead with two broken legs in Colorado, and incarcerated for espionage on the Sudan-Egypt border. The first in a thrilling adventure trilogy, Dark W...(展开全部)

This book centers on the changes of polders and investigates the complex hydro-social relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China. Once a “hydraulic frontier” where local communities managed the polders, the Jianghan Plain became a state-led hydro-electric powerhouse by the mid-twentieth century. Through meticulous historical analysis, this book shows how water p...(展开全部)

This book centers on the changes of polders and investigates the complex hydro-social relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China. Once a “hydraulic frontier” where local communities managed the polders, the Jianghan Plain became a state-led hydro-electric powerhouse by the mid-twentieth century. Through meticulous historical analysis, this book shows how water p...(展开全部)

This book centers on the changes of polders and investigates the complex hydro-social relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China. Once a “hydraulic frontier” where local communities managed the polders, the Jianghan Plain became a state-led hydro-electric powerhouse by the mid-twentieth century. Through meticulous historical analysis, this book shows how water p...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 埃里克•杰•多林（Eric Jay Dolin）毕业于布朗大学，主修生物和环境研究，在耶鲁大学森林和环境研究学院获得环境管理硕士学位后，又取得麻省理工学院环境政策和规划博士学位。曾任美国环保署项目经理，在美国和英国从事环境顾问工作，他的大部分作品反映了他对野生动物、环境和美国历史的兴趣，如《美国和中国最初的相遇》《皮毛、财富和帝国》《利维坦》《政治的浑水》《蛇头》等。 个人网站：www.ericjaydolin.com 【译者简介】 冯璇，北京外国语大学英语学院毕业，曾在出版社从事版权工作，现专门从事翻译工作，已翻译出版了《利维坦 》《皮毛、财富和帝国》《印象巴黎》 《安第斯山脉的生与死》《印加帝国的末日》《布鲁内莱斯基的穹顶》《美第奇家族的兴衰》《郁金香热》等作品。

With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventure-hungry” (Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle). Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” - spanning the late 1600s through the e...(展开全部)

Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial resources. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "world class" business center has...(展开全部)