This is a collection of the best predictions made by "Popular Mechanics" writers between 1903 and 1969. It features original, visually stunning artwork & a free poster. Each chapter is introduced by astrophysics professor and former NASA advisor Gregory Benford. Between 1903 and 1969, scientists and other experts made hundreds of predictions in "Popular Mechanics" about what th...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters， a large middle-class London family， from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endures and remembers heart-break， loss， radical change and stifling conformity， marriage and regret. Written in 1937， this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's nov...(展开全部)

弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫（Virginia Woolf，1882—1941），英国女作家，被誉为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义文学的先锋。第二次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界的核心人物，是布卢姆茨伯里派的成员之一。最知名的小说包括《达洛维太太》、《到灯塔去》、《雅各的房间》等。 吴尔夫革新了英语语言，在小说中尝试意识流的写作方法，试图描绘在人们心底里的潜意识。她在文学上的成就和创造性至今仍然产生很大的影响。

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, THE YEARS is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising, and news headlines. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for ever-proliferating objects are given voice here. The voi...(展开全部)

Written in 1937, this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime. It explores a rich variety of themes such as sex, feminism, family life, education and politics in English society from 1800 to the 1930s, as they affect one large middle-class London family. As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victori...(展开全部)

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, THE YEARS is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising, and news headlines. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for ever-proliferating objects are given voice here. The voi...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters， a large middle-class London family， from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endures and remembers heart-break， loss， radical change and stifling conformity， marriage and regret. Written in 1937， this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's nov...(展开全部)

弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫（Virginia Woolf，1882—1941），英国女作家，被誉为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义文学的先锋。第二次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界的核心人物，是布卢姆茨伯里派的成员之一。最知名的小说包括《达洛维太太》、《到灯塔去》、《雅各的房间》等。 吴尔夫革新了英语语言，在小说中尝试意识流的写作方法，试图描绘在人们心底里的潜意识。她在文学上的成就和创造性至今仍然产生很大的影响。

In recent years, both scholars and the general public have become increasingly fascinated by the role of religion in modern Chinese life. However, the bulk of attention has been devoted to changes caused by the repression of the Maoist era and subsequent religious revival. The Fifty Years That Changed Chinese Religion breaks new ground by systematically demonstrating that equal...(展开全部)

艾尔芙丽德·耶利内克是奥地利当代著名女作家，1946年出生。2004年荣获诺贝尔文学奖。耶利内克特立独行，思想前卫，因为她写的内容不一般，表现手法不一般，而引起了诸多争议。 1946年，耶利内克生于奥地利斯施蒂利亚州的米尔茨施拉格市，在维也纳长大。1946年，耶利内克生于奥地利斯施蒂利亚州的米尔茨施拉格市，在维也纳长大。其时离第二次世界大战不远。要说，这场大战时耶利内克还没有出生，可是却同我们的作家也真有剪不断、理还乱的牵扯，这一团氤氲时常出现在她的文学创作里，好像梦魇一般。 耶利内克带犹太血统，并且，祖上是从捷克，也即波西米亚，迁居来奥地利的。在所谓“奥(地利)匈(牙利)帝国”时期，奥地利是欧洲最大的国家，地跨今天中欧的大部分土地，还包括了南欧的巴尔干半岛。所以，不同国家中帝国的子民流向首都维也纳，不足为奇。这些外来户大致出身在当地比较有根底的家庭...(展开全部)