In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world. As an idealist and an internationalist, Kahn believed that he could use the new Autochrome process, the world’s first user-friendly, true-colour photographic system, to promote cross-cultural peace an...(展开全部)

The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday wo...(展开全部)

The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday wo...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 劳伦斯•凡•德•普司特，1906年出生于南非，20世纪著名作家、探险家、人类学家、语言学家和哲学家。1934年出版的处女作《在某省》，是第一本出自南非人之手的反种族歧视小说。两本描述沙漠布须曼人的著作《卡拉哈里沙漠的失落世界》（1958年）和《猎人之心》（1961年），被世人赞誉为拯救这支神秘种族免于灭绝命运的伟大著作。 日本著名导演大岛渚执导、豆瓣高分电影《战场上的快乐圣诞》（又译作《圣诞快乐，劳伦斯先生》）即根据他的作品《种子与播种者》（1963年）改编而来。 【译者简介】 周灵芝，曾任报社编译，现专职从事翻译及艺术创作。译作有《山高水清：五百天徒步跨欧之旅》《人生的9个学分》《在我道别之前》《迷路的地图》《解放儿童》等。

艾利克斯·巴洛斯，牛津大学数学和哲学硕士，曾经是《卫报》驻伦敦和里约热内卢记者，超级畅销书《贝利自传》的“影子写手”。

In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger—a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction—Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, “the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended” and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end -- the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived.... Amazon.com Written in the wake of Jurassic Park's p...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

尼尔马拉·纳塔瑞杰（Nirmala Nataraj）： 科普作家、编辑，尤其擅长宇宙学、生态学和分子生物学题材，对视觉和表演艺术颇感兴趣。生活在纽约。著有畅销书《地球与太空》。 美国国家航空航天局（National Aeronautics and Space Administration）： 简称NASA，是美国联邦政府的一个行政性科研机构，负责制定、实施美国的民用太空计划于开展航空科学暨太空科学的研究。NASA一直致力于探索浩瀚星空中人类的未知领域，如今已是地球上最权威的航天局，与许多美国国内及国际上的科研机构分享其研究数据。从人类第1次登月、地球2.0的发现，再到发现冥王星上的“心形”冰山区域，NASA承载着亿万人类探索宇宙的梦想与希望，经历过无数次失败后的打击和成功后的喜极而泣，仍然不惜一切代价，为人类的探索梦想投入的资本、最权威尖端的技术，只...(展开全部)