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)

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the firs...(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)

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the firs...(展开全部)

<br />"This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."-Mahmoud Darwish <br /><br />"Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex."-<em>Scotland on Sunday</em><br /><br />"His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry."-<em>The Toronto Star</em><br /><br />Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou...(展开全部)

<br />"This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."-Mahmoud Darwish <br /><br />"Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex."-<em>Scotland on Sunday</em><br /><br />"His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry."-<em>The Toronto Star</em><br /><br />Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou...(展开全部)

Refining the most widely adopted and enduring physics text available, University Physics with Modern Physics , Twelfth Edition continues an unmatched history of innovation and careful execution that was established by the best selling Eleventh Edition. Assimilating the best ideas from education research, this new edition provides enhanced problem-solving instruction, pioneer...(展开全部)

Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro collects nineteen interviews, conducted over the past two decades on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond, with the author of Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. The interviews collectively address the entirety of this literary artist's career, affording readers of Ishiguro (b. 1954) the most vivid portrait yet of contexts and influen...(展开全部)