Flighty but good-hearted Victoria Jones craves love, intrigue, and adventure. She strikes gold in Edward, a handsome and mysterious traveler whom she's vowed to follow to the ends of the earth. Yet no whirlwind affair can prepare Victoria for what unfolds once she lands in Baghdad. Not a day in Edward's shadow, and she hears whispered warnings of danger and witnesses the murder...(展开全部)

From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe. Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will do so unilluminated. Yet the black hole collision is an event more powerful than any since the origin of the universe. The p...(展开全部)

阿兰·R.米勒特，美军少将军衔。2005年就任俄亥俄州立大学雷蒙德·E.梅森中心军事历史学教授，后担任新奥尔良大学历史学教授兼艾森豪威尔中心美国研究所所长。2004年，军事历史协会授予他终身成就奖——塞缪尔·埃洛特·莫里森奖。著有《美国海军陆战队历史》《为胜利而战：打赢第二次世界大战》《为了共同的国防：美国军事史》《南征北战：杰拉尔德·C.托马斯和美国海军陆战队，1917—1956》《他们为朝鲜而战》等。

阿兰·R.米勒特，美军少将军衔。2005年就任俄亥俄州立大学雷蒙德·E.梅森中心军事历史学教授，后担任新奥尔良大学历史学教授兼艾森豪威尔中心美国研究所所长。2004年，军事历史协会授予他终身成就奖——塞缪尔·埃洛特·莫里森奖。著有《美国海军陆战队历史》《为胜利而战：打赢第二次世界大战》《为了共同的国防：美国军事史》《南征北战：杰拉尔德·C.托马斯和美国海军陆战队，1917—1956》《他们为朝鲜而战》等。

In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Ma...(展开全部)

In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Ma...(展开全部)

Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cy...(展开全部)

In this classic, John le Carré's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carré brings to light the shadowy dealings of international espionage in the tale of a British agent who longs to end his career but...(展开全部)

Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cy...(展开全部)

A thorough examination of the Cold War, taken from interviews with leading participants on both sides of the Iron Curtain for a major ten- part radio programme to be broadcast by the BBC World Service and in abbreviated form by BBC Radio Four, later in 1993. This major work will provide an insight into what the Cold War was like for those who were involved in running it, and fo...(展开全部)