九十九名精銳美國軍人身陷於一個具有敵意的城市中，當夜幕低垂時，他們被數以千計的敵人槍手所包圍，其等傷勢令之流血而亡，彈藥補給也正行減少之中。這是一個他們怎樣會進入該城市作戰─又怎樣殺出一條血路出來的故事。 這是一個真實的戰爭故事！ 《黑鷹計畫》把你與美軍特戰部隊一起丟進索馬利亞首府摩加迪修市中心一個擁擠的市場─同時也把你丟進美國軍人自從越戰以來所曾作戰過的最為綿密的砲火之中。 一九九三年十月三日星期天下午四點左右，特遣部隊遊騎兵被送進去擔負一項逮捕一個軍閥組織內兩名高階官員並返回到基地的任務，原本其僅需花上一個小時左右的時間。 相反地，他們在該具有敵意城市中卻遭致圍困而經歷了一長夜的恐怖時間，陷入不是殺人就是被殺的拼命掙扎狀況中，當奮戰單位最終於次日晨被救出時，美軍士兵陣亡者有十八名、重傷者幾十名，索馬利亞方面的死亡人數更為糟糕：被打死者超過有五百名...(展开全部)

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (San Francisco Chronicle) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elit...(展开全部)

Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3 1993, 140 elite US Soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city. Their mission was to abduct two top lieuten...(展开全部)

The Greek word melancholia (literally meaning 'black bile') defines our sense of depression and black moods. Yet the little black dress is the epitome of chic and has positive meanings. From ancient and classical times to today black has been used as a symbol, a tool and a metaphor in a plethora of startling and often problematic ways. The Story of Black is an exploration of ou...(展开全部)

Book Description Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award– winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as “spellbinding” by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymou...(展开全部)

Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their d...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)

The philosopher Antonio Negri is one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on class, socialism, and empire have had an enormous influence on contemporary political theory. His political activism and outspoken advocacy for the downtrodden have also placed him at the centre of some of the most dramatic developments in recent Italian history. Story of a Communist—th...(展开全部)