内容简介 In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeff......
On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill s feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyea......
On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America s newest submarine, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew memb......
Anne Rivers Siddons invites you into her home and her heartIn this collection of heartfelt and involving vignettes, Anne Rivers Siddons--the beloved b......
Preface Since x973 I have been traveling to Manitoba, Canada, to see acertain Native American medicine woman named Agnes WhistlingElk. At first I ......
From America s wittiest writer on mathematics, a lively and insightful book on the workings of stock markets and the basic irrationality of our dreams......
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Coming BackIt was early spring in Cloud County, Kansas. My friend Ann andI, on our way across the country, had stopped in the town of\"Clyde to ......
Book Description All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the ......
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I was wearing casual clothes, andMarilyn had on a denim dress. We were walking upBourbon Street, making our way back to our hotelafter lunch at Sa......
From Publishers Weekly Although a taciturn and reputedly uncharismatic man, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales rose from his beginnings in Humble, Tex.......
华岗是我国著名的马克思主义理论家、革命活动家和教育家,其丰富的著述涉及政治、历史、哲学、美学等多个学科领域。本选集共收录他的《一九二五——一九二七年中国大革命史》、《社会发展史纲》、《中国民族解放运动史》、《现代战争论初步》、《苏联外交史》、《中国历史的翻案》、《五四运动史》、《太平天国革命战争史》......
Once upon a time Linus torvalds was a Skinny unknown,just another nerdy helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood.the......
北大精神经过110年的发展沉淀,弥久而愈新,而公民参与、公民社会责任和公益、志愿精神与北大所倡导的“思想自由,兼容并包”一脉相承。北大精神的历史、传承以及如何弘扬北大精神、建设和谐社会正是本丛书的意义所在,《大爱有行》是其中的一本。...
after nearly 25 years, the turtles come out of their shells. . way of the turtle takes a never-before-seen look at the legendary turtle traders and t......
at 53, eugene o'kelly was in the full swing of life. chairman and ceo of kpmg, one of the largest u.s. accounting firms, he enjoyed a successfhl caree......
At the tender age of 28, Piers Morgan was made editor of a national newspaper. So began a career at the epicenter of Britain’s media during one of the......