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)

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)

威廉·麦克斯韦尔 (William Maxwell,1908-2000) 著名编辑、小说家、散文家、童书及传记作者，曾任职《纽约客》40载，是纳博科夫、厄普代克、塞林格等诸多美国当代重要作家的伯乐、知己与导师。著有包括《妈妈走的那一年》《再见，明天见》在内的6部长篇小说，荣获美国国家图书奖、美国艺术与文学学院奖章、美国笔会/马拉穆德奖、马克· 吐温奖等。

Through the eyes of two boys and their father, William Maxwell reveals the complex woman who is the unacknowledged source of their happiness--and whose death during the influenza epic of 1918 will devastate them all. They Came Like Swallows tenderly depicts the currents of love and need that run through every family--and whose true depth becomes evident only in moments of trage...(展开全部)

Discover William Maxwell’s classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic 'A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic… Will melt many a reader to tears’ TIME Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder ...(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)