网上购物 货比三家
您现在的位置:快乐比价网 > 图书 > 文学 > 外国文学 > 商品详情

A Crack In The Edge Of The World 世界边缘的地震

分享到:
A Crack In The Edge Of The World 世界边缘的地震

最 低 价:¥22.00

定 价:¥159.50

作 者:SIMONWINCHESTER 著

出 版 社:Oversea Publishing House

出版时间:

I S B N:0141016310

价格
22.00元
价格
49.00元
价格
55.30元
价格
60.00元

商品详情

编辑推荐

内容简介

A Crack in the Edge of the World brings tolife the extraordinary taLes of human endeavour at the heart of one of America's worst natural disasters:the scientosts who made sense of an unchared land and the men and women who transformed it,the shameless lnsurance salesmen and the pioneers of the city's monumental recovery recovery.Then,dipping beneath the surface of the earth of the earth,Winchester brilliantly demonstrates just why the earth moves as it does,and how it will again……

作者简介

目录

List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Prologue
1 The Well-illumined Earth
2 A Bom-again Scicnce
3 The View from On Hidh
4 The Street Before Morming
1 Chronicle:A Year of Livmg Dangerously
2 The TemporaRy City
3 Chronicle:Such Almost Modern Times
4 From Plate to Shining Plate
1 A Simple PIan
2 The Plate Entire
3 The Eastern Front
4 The World Beyond Ur
5 A Certain Nervous Shaking
6 The Unstlll Centre
5 Chronicle:The State of the Golden Stare
6 How the West was Made
7 The Mischief-maker
8 Chronicle:City of Mint and Smokc
9 Overture: The Night Before Dark
10 The Savage Interruption
1 The Rustling of the Leaves
2 The Measurings and the Mechanicals
3 And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
4 The Smcken City
5 The Human Response
Ⅱ Ripples on the Surface of the Pond
1 The Vengeance of the Lord
2 The Coming of the Peper People
3 The Flight of Creation
4 A Fretworked City, Pinned with Steel
5 Getting Safely out of Dodge
Epilgue:Perspective-Ice and Fire
Appendix:On Getting an Earthpuake's Measure
Suggesions for Further Reading,with Caveats
A Gloossary of Possibly Unfamiliar Terms and Concepts
Geological Timescale
With Gratitude
Text and Illustration Acknowledgements
Index
American Disasters:Past,Present,Future
An Interview with Simon Winchester

商品评论(0条)

暂无评论!

您的浏览历史

loading 内容加载中,请稍后...