The simplest, most intuitive book on the toughest lessons of flight--addresses the science of flying in terms, explanations, and illustrations that make sense to those who most need to understand: tho

The simplest, most intuitive book on the toughest lessons of flight--addresses the science of flying in terms, explanations, and illustrations that make sense to those who most need to understand: tho

Discover how planes get--and stay--airborne Now you can truly master an understanding of the phenomenon of flight. This practical guide is the most intuitive introduction to basic flight mechanics available. Understanding Flight, Second Edition, explains the principles of aeronautics in terms, descriptions, and illustrations that make sense--without complicated mathematics. Up...(展开全部)

Discover how planes get--and stay--airborne Now you can truly master an understanding of the phenomenon of flight. This practical guide is the most intuitive introduction to basic flight mechanics available. Understanding Flight, Second Edition, explains the principles of aeronautics in terms, descriptions, and illustrations that make sense--without complicated mathematics. Up...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly sets his novels of suspense against a world divided by race, politics, money, and the media. Here he thrusts Detective Harry Bosch on a harrowing journey into a high-profile murder case--and darkness... An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But ...(展开全部)

芭芭拉·金索沃 Barbara Kingsolver 美国当代作家。美国国家图书奖终身成就奖得主,普利策小说奖得主、美国人文领域最高荣誉“国家人文勋章”获得者。生于1955年，在美国肯塔基州乡间长大。迄今出版10部长篇小说，其中有5部全美销量超100万册。作品被翻译成2 0多种语言，入选美国高中和大学文学课程。曾获英国橘子文学奖、南非国家图书奖、爱德华·艾比生态小说奖、戴顿文学和平奖等。代表作有《毒木圣经》《纵情夏日》《蝴蝶烧山》等。

Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world. Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language o...(展开全部)

芭芭拉·金索沃 Barbara Kingsolver 美国当代作家。美国国家图书奖终身成就奖得主,普利策小说奖得主、美国人文领域最高荣誉“国家人文勋章”获得者。生于1955年，在美国肯塔基州乡间长大。迄今出版10部长篇小说，其中有5部全美销量超100万册。作品被翻译成2 0多种语言，入选美国高中和大学文学课程。曾获英国橘子文学奖、南非国家图书奖、爱德华·艾比生态小说奖、戴顿文学和平奖等。代表作有《毒木圣经》《纵情夏日》《蝴蝶烧山》等。

芭芭拉·金索沃 Barbara Kingsolver 美国当代作家。美国国家图书奖终身成就奖得主,普利策小说奖得主、美国人文领域最高荣誉“国家人文勋章”获得者。生于1955年，在美国肯塔基州乡间长大。迄今出版10部长篇小说，其中有5部全美销量超100万册。作品被翻译成2 0多种语言，入选美国高中和大学文学课程。曾获英国橘子文学奖、南非国家图书奖、爱德华·艾比生态小说奖、戴顿文学和平奖等。代表作有《毒木圣经》《纵情夏日》《蝴蝶烧山》等。

Ken Follett follows his bestsellers "Jackdaws" and "Code to Zero" with an extraordinary novel of the early days of World War II... It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the...(展开全部)