Slave. Gladiator. Shaman. Warchief. The enigmatic Orc known as Thrall has been all of these. Raised from infancy by cruel human masters who sought to mould him into their perfect pawn, Thrall was driven by both the savagery in his heart and the cunning of his upbringing to pursue a destiny he was only beginning to understand - to break his bondage and rediscover the ancient tra...(展开全部)

In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate narratives of conflict and memory. While the visual history of the Vietnam War has been dominated by American documentaries and war photography, Phu turns to photographs circulated by the Vietnamese them...(展开全部)

When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks they’ll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuck’s new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How thing...(展开全部)

菲利普·K·迪克(PhilipK.Dick)(1928-1982)是当代北美最著名的畅销书作家之一，他预言了基因技术、克隆技术、记忆移植，写下最具科学性的科幻，以36部长篇、100多部短篇小说，熔科幻、惊险、伦理、言情、恐怖、神秘、心理、悬念、推理于一炉，可读性哲理性科学性俱强，成为美国传奇文学、科幻文学界的传奇人物，被海外华裔读者誉为美国的“金庸”。迪克的《少数派报告》、《全面回忆》催生了好莱坞的票房新高，吸引了汤姆·克鲁斯、施瓦辛格等巨星，成为科幻电影的里程碑。

菲利普·K·迪克(PhilipK.Dick)(1928-1982)是当代北美最著名的畅销书作家之一，他预言了基因技术、克隆技术、记忆移植，写下最具科学性的科幻，以36部长篇、100多部短篇小说，熔科幻、惊险、伦理、言情、恐怖、神秘、心理、悬念、推理于一炉，可读性哲理性科学性俱强，成为美国传奇文学、科幻文学界的传奇人物，被海外华裔读者誉为美国的“金庸”。迪克的《少数派报告》、《全面回忆》催生了好莱坞的票房新高，吸引了汤姆·克鲁斯、施瓦辛格等巨星，成为科幻电影的里程碑。

This ambitious book looks into the reasons for the exceptional durability of the Chinese empire, which lasted for more than two millennia (221 B.C.E. - 1911 C.E.). Yuri Pines identifies the roots of the empire's longevity in the activities of thinkers of the Warring States period (453-221 B.C.E.), who, in their search for solutions to an ongoing political crisis, developed idea...(展开全部)

There's a sexual revolution coming to a schoolroom near you, but it's not the one you remember. When Sex Goes to School explores the ideas and values behind the fight over sex education through the lives of parents, its most passionate participants. Distinguished sociologist Kristin Luker spent over twenty years talking to people in ordinary communities about sex and how, if a...(展开全部)

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the manuscripts known as daybooks, examples of which have been found in Warring States, Qin, and Han tombs (453 BCE–220 CE). Their main content concerns hemerology, or “knowledge of good and bad days.” Daybooks reveal the place of hemerology in daily life and are invaluable sources for the study...(展开全部)