As we look back to the beginnings of the space race, 2009 is also the year for looking forward to humankind’s next step toward the stars. In the spirit of books that once imagined colonies on the moon, Patrick O’Brien has created a unique look at your first trip to Mars. Using the most upto- date designs and theories of what it will take to establish a base on Mars, you are of...(展开全部)

克里希那穆提（J.Krishanmurti，1895－1986），印度的著名哲学家，20世纪最伟大的的心灵导师，在西方有着广泛而深远的影响。他主张真理纯属个人了悟，一定要用自己的光荣照亮自己。他一生的教诲皆在帮助人类从恐惧和无明中彻底解脱，体悟慈悲与至乐的境界。他的六十多册著作，都是由空性流露的演讲和讲话集结而成，目前已经译成了47种语言出版。 他是最卓越的宗教人物，是我所见过最美的人类。——乔治·萧伯纳（George Bernard Shaw，1856-1950） 当他时入我的屋内时，我禁不住对自己说：“我绝对是菩萨无疑了！”——纪伯伦（Kahlil Gibran，1883-1931） 克里希那穆提是我知道的惟一能完全摒弃自我的人，和他相识是人生最光荣的事！——亨利·米勒（Henry Miller，1891-1980） 那是我听过的最难忘的演讲，就...(展开全部)

Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? We have something deep and consistent within us that determines the choices we make and the situations we bring about. But why should members of the same species differ so markedly in their natures? What is the best personality to have; a bold one or a shy...(展开全部)

Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey through West Texas, where strange things start to happen. A lost cat becomes a kindred spirit, the weather shifts from sun to snow within minutes, and they are followed by mysterious men from the Office of Road Inquiry. The landscape morphs into an unsettling world as they drive on, to...(展开全部)

Edward can’t fall asleep, and like most children, he has a million questions burning to be answered even though it’s way past his bedtime. In this funny picture book about the all-familiar bedtime negotiations between child and parent, Edward and his mother talk about everything from yellow dogs to corn on the cob. Most children (and parents) will recognize themselves in this...(展开全部)

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way... Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he’ll do anything to avoid his empty house. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders...(展开全部)

Two gorgeous widows go up against a nefarious multinational think tank in this airbrushed but goofily entertaining thriller by perennial bestseller Sheldon (The Sky Is Falling; Tell Me Your Dreams; etc.). Four scientists working for the New York–based Kingsley International Group have died or disappeared within 24 hours. Wolfish top boss Tanner Kingsley vows to find the perpetr...(展开全部)

All around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing.</p> In Berlin, a woman vanishes from the city streets. In Paris, a man plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane crashes into the mountains. In Manhattan, a body washes ashore along the East River. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police soon discover that all four of the victi...(展开全部)

New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose “lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk? —from “No Fly Zone” With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary tra...(展开全部)

This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is he...(展开全部)