张纯如 (1968 - 2004) ，美国著名的华裔女作家、历史学家和自由撰稿人。曾担任美联社、《芝加哥论坛报》记者。著有《蚕丝──钱学森传》(1995)、 《南京大屠杀》(1997)、《美国华裔史录》。《南京大屠杀》是首部向西方世界介绍南京大屠杀的英文专著，在全世界造成了震动，在世界范围引起了极大的凡响，曾经登上纽约时报畅销书排行榜十周之久，读书人书评称赞它为年度最佳书籍之一，至今已经再版十余次，全球印刷近100万册。2004年11月9日，张纯如于加州盖洛斯自己的车内以手枪自杀身亡。张纯如在一生中共完成三本书，《洛杉矶时报》形容她是“最好的历史学家和人权斗士”，是“在美国成长的华裔青年模范”。

The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and becameto America’s continuing chagrinthe father of the Chinese missile program.

张纯如 (1968 - 2004) ，美国著名的华裔女作家、历史学家和自由撰稿人。曾担任美联社、《芝加哥论坛报》记者。著有《蚕丝──钱学森传》(1995)、 《南京大屠杀》(1997)、《美国华裔史录》。《南京大屠杀》是首部向西方世界介绍南京大屠杀的英文专著，在全世界造成了震动，在世界范围引起了极大的凡响，曾经登上纽约时报畅销书排行榜十周之久，读书人书评称赞它为年度最佳书籍之一，至今已经再版十余次，全球印刷近100万册。2004年11月9日，张纯如于加州盖洛斯自己的车内以手枪自杀身亡。张纯如在一生中共完成三本书，《洛杉矶时报》形容她是“最好的历史学家和人权斗士”，是“在美国成长的华裔青年模范”。

当小说家欧文•奎因（Owen Quine）失踪后, 他的妻子打电话向私人侦探莫兰•斯特莱克 (Cormoran Strike)求助. 起初她以为丈夫就像往常一样, 出去溜达几天就回来了. 所以她想请斯特莱克侦探把丈夫找回家. 经过调查, 侦探斯特莱克发现奎因的失踪没有他妻子想得那么简单. 这位小说家刚刚完成一部手稿, 小说里他几乎对他认识的所有人进行了恶毒的描述，如果小说得以出版将会毁掉很多人的生活, 因而很多人都想让小说家奎因永远闭嘴. 当奎因被发现在奇特的情形下被残酷地杀害, 侦探斯特莱克意识到他必须跟时间赛跑, 找到凶手和杀人的动机, 而这个凶手比他过去遇到的任何杀手都奇特. 《蚕》是一部情节曲折生动, 令读者欲罢不能的犯罪侦探小说，小说的主人公是伍军人出身的私家侦探科莫兰•斯特莱克和他的不屈不饶的年轻助手罗宾 艾勒考特（Robin Ellac...(展开全部)

当小说家欧文•奎因（Owen Quine）失踪后, 他的妻子打电话向私人侦探莫兰•斯特莱克 (Cormoran Strike)求助. 起初她以为丈夫就像往常一样, 出去溜达几天就回来了. 所以她想请斯特莱克侦探把丈夫找回家. 经过调查, 侦探斯特莱克发现奎因的失踪没有他妻子想得那么简单. 这位小说家刚刚完成一部手稿, 小说里他几乎对他认识的所有人进行了恶毒的描述，如果小说得以出版将会毁掉很多人的生活, 因而很多人都想让小说家奎因永远闭嘴. 当奎因被发现在奇特的情形下被残酷地杀害, 侦探斯特莱克意识到他必须跟时间赛跑, 找到凶手和杀人的动机, 而这个凶手比他过去遇到的任何杀手都奇特. 《蚕》是一部情节曲折生动, 令读者欲罢不能的犯罪侦探小说，小说的主人公是伍军人出身的私家侦探科莫兰•斯特莱克和他的不屈不饶的年轻助手罗宾 艾勒考特（Robin Ella...(展开全部)

John Sulston was director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge from 1993 to 2000. There he led the British arm of the international team selected to map the entire human DNA sequence, a feat that was pulled off in record time by an extraordinary collaboration of scientists. Despite innumerable setbacks and challenges from outside competitors the ultimate success of the project can...(展开全部)

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize “It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories th...(展开全部)

‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…’ This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer’s day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets an...(展开全部)

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just comple...(展开全部)

The world was agog when scientists made the astounding announcement that they had successfully sequenced the human genome. Few contributed so directly to this feat as John Sulston. This is his personal account of one of the largest international scientific operations ever undertaken. It was a momentous occasion when British scientist, John Sulston embarked on the greatest scien...(展开全部)