《生火》（To Build a Fire）是美国作家杰克·伦敦1907年发表的短篇小说，讲述一名淘金者在极寒环境中因轻视自然法则而冻死的悲剧，被视为自然主义文学经典‌。小说通过人与狗的对比，揭示了人类理性在自然力量面前的脆弱性，并批判了工业文明对自然的傲慢。

'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.' Damon Hill The world’s foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain’s greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir. How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian’s unrivalled...(展开全部)

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Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are the greatest threat to national security in the twenty-first century. How to Build a Nuclear Bomb explains what it takes for a rogue state or terrorist group to obtain and use them. But nuclear weapons and terrorism expert Frank Barnaby has not written a collection of scare stories. His purpose in How to Build a Nuclear Bomb is to counte...(展开全部)

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In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought - tool-making, territoriality,...(展开全部)

彼得•沃森（Peter Watson，1943— ） 英国思想史学者，曾任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员，《新社会》杂志副主编，为《泰晤士报》《纽约时报》《观察家》等报纸撰写过专栏，以恢宏的思想史作品闻名于西方世界，著有《思想史：从火到弗洛伊德》《20世纪思想史：惊骇之美》《德国天才》等。

彼得•沃森（Peter Watson，1943— ） 英国思想史学者，曾任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员，《新社会》杂志副主编，为《泰晤士报》《纽约时报》《观察家》等报纸撰写过专栏，以恢宏的思想史作品闻名于西方世界，著有《思想史：从火到弗洛伊德》《20世纪思想史：惊骇之美》《德国天才》等。

In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought - tool-making, territoriality,...(展开全部)

改编自杰克·伦敦同名小说 漫画诗人、《灯塔》作者夏布特再现自然主义文学经典 ................... ※编辑推荐※ 《生火》是美国作家杰克·伦敦描写极北严寒生活的小说中最著名的一篇短篇小说。 1896年，人们在加拿大北部的育空地区发现了大量的金矿。成千上万的冒险者们蜂拥而至，而去往那里的交通方式却非常有限。为了到达这个黄金国，他们不得不携带沉重的工具和生存必需品。不计其数的人们经过长途跋涉来到这里碰运气，其中很多人再也没能回去。这些人没有意识到当地环境之恶劣：零下45摄氏度的气温，严寒穿透身体，白雪覆盖了一切景致。《生火》中的这名男子就是淘金队伍中的一员，他与他的狗一起，将面临比这更严酷的考验。他的同伴只想蜷作一团守在篝火的旁边，男子却一心想快点赶到营地与伙伴们汇合。然而，天气在持续恶化，严寒将成为一位真正无情的敌人…… 《灯塔》作者克...(展开全部)