本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians bu...(展开全部)

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians bu...(展开全部)

中文版为《不宣而战》http://book.douban.com/subject/1115746/ 本书为英国王牌制片人大卫·普特南爵士的力作。在本书中，他将电影提高到了一个前所未有的高度，以WTO的谈判舞台作为开场，以电影史上的国际贸易战为主线，从经济与文化两方面论述了电影的巨大影响力。他旁征博引，同时还结合自己在大西洋两岸担任制片人的亲身经历和体会，为读者讲述了在电影这一20世纪最大众化而且最具影响力的媒体的领域内进行的争夺战。

在线阅读本书 Winner of The Independent Foreign Fiction Award, this “hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanize completely a people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics.” — Sunday Times

Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a g...(展开全部)

斯科特•维斯特菲尔德，美国畅销书作家，科幻奇幻作家。 维斯特菲尔德的父亲作为计算机工程师参与了飞机及多种交通工具的设计工作，并且曾参与阿波罗登月计划；这使他从少年时起便对对于各类交通工具充满浓厚的兴趣。 维斯特菲尔德已创作18部长篇小说，其中14部是专为青少年读者而作。其作品《进化的宠儿》获2000年菲利普•迪克奖提名。《午夜人：神秘时刻》获2004年澳洲“奥瑞丽斯”最佳青少年小说奖。《偷窥者》和《丑人》均在2006年获美国图书馆协会最佳青少年图书奖，《丑人》的法语版上市后成为当年度仅次于《暮光之城》的畅销书。 《利维坦号战记》系列是他的最新系列小说，在国外备受好评，粉丝如云。

斯科特•维斯特菲尔德，美国畅销书作家，科幻奇幻作家。 维斯特菲尔德的父亲作为计算机工程师参与了飞机及多种交通工具的设计工作，并且曾参与阿波罗登月计划；这使他从少年时起便对对于各类交通工具充满浓厚的兴趣。 维斯特菲尔德已创作18部长篇小说，其中14部是专为青少年读者而作。其作品《进化的宠儿》获2000年菲利普•迪克奖提名。《午夜人：神秘时刻》获2004年澳洲“奥瑞丽斯”最佳青少年小说奖。《偷窥者》和《丑人》均在2006年获美国图书馆协会最佳青少年图书奖，《丑人》的法语版上市后成为当年度仅次于《暮光之城》的畅销书。 《利维坦号战记》系列是他的最新系列小说，在国外备受好评，粉丝如云。

Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a g...(展开全部)

This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investig...(展开全部)