A soon-to-be-very-sad wife has to help pay for her husband's debts, one way or another.

David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.

David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.

David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.

On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. He’s waiting for Dorothy, his fiancée, and tonight is the last night they’ll be meeting here, for it’s May 31st, and June 1st marks their wedding day. But she’s late, and Johnny soon learns of a horrible accident—an accident involving a group of drunken men, a low-flying charter plane, an...(展开全部)

If you were suddenly to be found murdered, would your friends have theories about who had done the deed? Well, when the wealthy and unpleasant Miss Pongleton meets her end on the stairs of Belsize Park underground station in Murder Underground, her housemates—though not particularly grieved—have plenty of guesses at the identity of her killer. While they’re merely airing theori...(展开全部)

本·温特斯（Ben H. Winters），美国作家。著有《最后的警察》三部曲等九部小说，作品曾获得美国推理作家协会颁发的2012年埃德加奖，被评为2013年美国全国公共广播电台年度图书，获得菲利普·K.迪克奖杰出科幻小说奖。

西元2131年，一個神秘的外來天體闖入太陽系。人類為了守護地球安全，立刻派遣太空人前往這顆名為「拉瑪」的星體探勘。 經過一連串驚險探索，地球太空人發現，它竟是人造的金屬圓筒物！更驚人的是，內部的構造景觀令人嘆為觀止，難道這是一塊人工殖民地？究竟是誰造了這神奇飛行體，任其悠遊於浩瀚宇宙？它接近太陽系的目的又是為何？ 拉瑪的出現，將為人類世界帶來怎樣的震撼？攸關人類命運的《拉瑪任務》，即將揭開序幕…… 本書特色 1.世界級科幻大師亞瑟克拉克代表作《拉瑪系列》首部曲。 2.《拉瑪任務》1973年同時榮獲多項國際科幻最高榮譽——雨果獎及星雲獎、坎伯獎，被譽為「二十世紀科幻經典」。 3.在大陸和新加坡引起廣大注意，《拉瑪系列》全球銷售700萬冊。 4.作者亞瑟克拉克為唯一具科學家身分之科幻小說家...(展开全部)

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike p...(展开全部)