The epic of the Apollo missions told in the astronauts'own words and gorgeously illustrated with their photographs Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon isconsidered the definitive history of the Apollo moonmissions-arguably the pinnacle of human experience. Now, usingnever-before-published quotes taken from his in-depth interviewswith twenty-three of the twenty-four Apollo lunar astronauts,Chaikin and his collaborator, Victoria Kohl, have created anextraordinary account of the lunar missions. In Voices from theMoon the astronauts vividly recount their experiences inintimate detail; their distinct personalities and remarkably variedperspectives emerge from their candid and deeply personalreflections. Carefully assembled into a narrative that reflects theentire arc of the lunar journey, Voices from the Moon captures the magnificence of the Apollo program like no other book.Paired with their own words are 160 images taken from NASA's newhigh-resolution scans of the photos the astronauts took during themis

There is not a 'them' and an 'us'; there is really only 'us.' One People illustrates this thought through a collection of glorious photographs, accompanied by thoughtful essays, that capture the universality of the human experience in the very different contexts of our diverse world. In this book we present people in all stages of our common life cycle, reflecting a moment, emotion, ritual, or intimacy that, be it mundane or extraordinary, is recognisable across cultures and language barriers. Regardless of nationality or beliefs, we share the joy of birth, the celebration of life's special moments, the need to find meaning in our lives, the strength to endure, the resilience to keep trying and the sorrow of death. And above all, we share a curiosity about other people that inspires us to travel and to seek them out. And it is travel that facilitates this understanding, connection and humanity in all of us, and illuminates the shared paths and crossroads in our many journeys.

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.

Among submariners in World War II, Dudley "Mush" Morton stoodout as a warrior without peer. At the helm of the USS Wahoo he completely changed the way the sea war was fought in thePacific. He would relentlessly attack the Japanese at everyopportunity, going through his supply of torpedoes in record timeon every patrol. In only nine months, he racked up an astoundinglist of achievements, including being the first American skipper towipe out an entire enemy convoy single-handedly.

Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry,has been celebrated for his singular vision of the Americanimmigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierceand tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotousevocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiasticaudiences among readers of Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac,""Slate," "The New Yorker," and other publications. His willingnessto face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous bookparticularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write"If I have to believe in something, I believe in despair." Yet heremains oddly undaunted: "sometimes, late at night, we, myhappiness and I, reminisce, lifelong antagonists enjoying eachother's company.""The God of Loneliness," a major collection ofSchultz's work, includes poems from his five books ("Like Wings,""Deep Within the Ravine," "The Holy Worm of Praise," "Living in thePast," "Failure") and fourteen new poems. It is a volume tocherish, fro

作者简介： J. K. (Jo) Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury in the UK in 1965. Such a funny-sounding name for a birthplace may have contributed to her talent for collecting odd names. She was quiet, freckly, short-sighted and not very good at sports. She even broke her arm playing netball. Her favourite subject by far was English, but she also liked languages. Jo always loved writing more than anything. 'The first story that I ever wrote down, when I was five or six, was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. And ever since Rabbit and Miss Bee, I have wanted to be a writer, though I rarely told anyone so. I was afraid they'd tell me I didn't have a hope.' As she got older, Jo kept writing but she never showed what she had written to anyone, except for some of her funny stories that featured her friends as heroines. Jo attended the University of Exeter in Devon where she studied French. When she was 25,

Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundredbooks later, he personally collected twenty-five of his storieswritten before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were firstpublished in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of themappeared under the Ed McBain byline. They were written by EvanHunter (McBain's legal name as of 1952), Richard Marsten (apseudonym derived from the names of his three sons), or HuntCollins (in honor of his alma mater, Hunter College). Here are kidsin trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs.Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are copsand robbers. These are the stories that prepared Evan Hunter tobecome Ed McBain, and that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved87th Precinct novels. In individual introductions, McBain tells howand why he wrote these stories that were the start of his legendarycareer.

Myths Legends retells the stories central toevery culture that have been passed down from generation togeneration for thousands of years. Coverage extends from thewell-known tales of the Ancient Greeks, which hold the key to theorigin of such phrases as "Achille's heel," to the lesser-known,but richly colorful, myths of the Americas and the East. Topicspreads explore characters and stories in terms of their cultural,psychological, and religious meanings and show their power,purpose, and influence both in their own time and in today's world.Feature spreads visit the sacred sites that can still be seentoday, and underline the importance of themes that appear acrosscultures and through the centuries. In looking at such universalthemes as creation, heroic trials, tricksters' lessons, and deathand the afterlife, Myths Legends investigates howdifferent cultures have addressed questions such as How was theworld created? How did man learn to use fire? and Why do we growold?

Critics worldwide have praised Reinaldo Arenas's writing. Hisextraordinary memoir, Before Night Falls, was named one of thefourteen "Best Books of 1993" by the editors of The New York TimesBook Review and has now been made into a major motionpicture. The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, isalso the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, afive-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties.Although it is the penultimate installment in his "secret historyof Cuba," it was, in fact, the last book Arenas wrote before hisdeath in 1990. A Rabelaisian tale of survival by wits and wit, TheColor of Summer is ultimately a powerful and passionate story aboutthe triumph of the human spirit over the forces of political andsexual repression.

THE CASUAL VACANCY J.K. Rowling Book De*ion： When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties,the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled marketsquare and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty fa?adeis a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wivesat war with their husbands, teachers at war with theirpupils…Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soonbecomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yetseen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicityand unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought‐provoking and constantly surprising, TheCasual Vacancy is J.K.Rowling’s first novel for adults. Author Profile: J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter seriesof seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have soldmore tha

"All life in all worlds" -this was the object of the author'sseventeen-year quest for knowledge and discovery, culminating inthis book. In a manner unmistakably his own, Murchie delves intothe interconnectedness of all life on the planet and of such fieldsas biology, geology, sociology, mathematics, and physics. He offersus what the poet May Sarton has called "a good book to take to adesert island as sole companion, so rich is it in knowledge andinsight."

The definitive story of the Red Sox, a best-selling classic, nowexpanded and updated to include the incredible 2004 season andWorld Series win. In that magic fall of 2004, the Boston Red Soxtransformed themselves from an unruly band of self-proclaimedidiots into world champions for the first time in eighty-six years.Their unlikely triumph became known instantly as one of the mostthrilling, nerve-racking, and ultimately inspiring sports storiesever. And it also changed the course of history for a franchisethat had long been known more for its failures than for itssuccesses. In Red Sox Century, "the best of the Sox sages" (USAToday Baseball Weekly) chronicle the complete history of thisenduring team with authority, insight, and high style. From theteam's inception in 1901 and its early peak in 1918, when it wonits fifth World Series, to the glory years, which saw the rise ofsuch greats as Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Teddy Ballgame, and Yaz and the"impossible dream," to the near misses in 1975, 1986, and 2003, andfina

A myth-busting novel about America's most infamous and belovedoutlaw, Billy the Kid, from a critically acclaimed historicalnovelist. According to legend, Billy the Kid killed twenty-one men,one for every year of his short life; stole from wealthy cattlebarons to give to the poor; and wooed just about every se?orita inthe American Southwest. In Lucky Billy, John Vernon digs deeplyinto the historical record to find a truth more remarkable than thelegend, and draws a fresh, nuanced portrait of this outlaw'sdramatic and violent life. Billy the Kid met his celebrated end atthe hands of Pat Garrett, his one-time carousing partner turnedsheriff, who tracked Billy down after the jail break that made himfamous. In Vernon's telling, the crucial event of Billy's life wasthe Lincoln County War, a conflict between a ring of Irishmen incontrol of Lincoln, New Mexico, and a newcomer from England, JohnTunstall, who wanted to break their grip on the town. Billy signedon with Tunstall. The conflict spun out of control w

The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth'scollected works continues with two novels that heralded thebeginning of a more than decade-long creative explosion-oneremarkable in an older writer and hailed by critics as unparalleledin American literary history. In the diabolically imaginativeOperation Shylock (1993), a character named Philip Roth encountersa look-alike who claims Roth's identity and who tours Israelpromoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews-proselytizing the"real" Roth is intent on stopping, even if it means impersonatinghis impersonator. "This splendidly wicked book" is how the critic Frank Kermodedescribed Sabbath's Theater (1995), a comic masterpiece of epicproportions whose gargantuan hero, Mickey Sabbath, grieving theloss of his unsurpassable mistress, embarks on a turbulent journeyinto his past besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hatedhim most.

The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight. The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age. Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in Tel’aran’rhiod and find a way--at long last--to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways--the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn--have confused him, taunted him, and left him hanged, his memory stuffed with bits and pieces of other men’s lives. He had hoped that his last confrontation with them would be the end of it, but the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. The time is coming when he will again

GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOWON HBO. Dubbed "the American Tolkien" by "Time" magazine, George R.R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycleof epic fantasy. Now the #1 "New York Times" bestselling authordelivers the fifth book in his landmark series--as both familiarfaces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmentedempire. A DANCE WITH DRAGONSA SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK FIVE Inthe aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the SevenKingdoms hangs in the balance--beset by newly emerging threats fromevery direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion ofHouse Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a citybuilt on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, andmany have set out to find her. As they gather, one young manembarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirelydifferent goal in mind. Fleeing from Westeros with a price on hishead, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But hisnewest alli

"James Cameron's Titanic" chronicles a master storyteller'scinematic re-creation of one of the most vividly remembereddisasters of the modern era. Cameron's epic motion picture, winnerof eleven Academy Awards, was an unforgettable triumph offilmmaking, weaving a rich human tapestry of romance and heroism,tragedy and greed, and, ultimately, the power of true love - astory that will continue to capture the hearts of audiences forgenerations to come. This collector's edition will include all theoriginal content from the first book as well as a new and extendedintroduction by James Cameron. Additional new content will include:twenty-six newly designed pages with never-before-seen images fromthe film studio and from James Cameron's personal archive;behind-the-scenes stories from Cameron himself detailing theconcept art and making of the original film; a revelatory look atthe technical process of transforming original film into dynamic 3Dprints; quotes from Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio discussingthe fi

Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, TWILIGHT, NEWMOON, ECLIPSE and BREAKING DAWN capture the struggle betweendefying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This stunning setmakes the perfect gift for fans of this bestselling vampire lovestory. The set will give existing fans a focus for their devotionand new fans will be entranced as the love story between Bella andthe Vampire Edward develops from tentative beginnings in Twilightto its stunning conclusion in the publishing phenomenon that isBreaking Dawn. 《暮光之城套装》包括：《暮光之城系列：破晓》、《暮光之城：月食》、《暮光之城：新月》和《暮光之城：暮色》。

The writer, naturalist, and artist David Carroll illuminatesthe ecology and life histories the tree frogs, hawks, foxes, andthe increasingly rare wood and spotted turtles he has been trackingfor decades with the precision and passion that won him a 2006MacArthur "genius" award. "Following theWater "is the intenselyobserved chronicle of Carroll's annual March-to-November wetlandsimmersion--from the joy of the first turtle sighting in March tothe gorgeously described, vibrant trilling of tree frogs ("lichenwith eyes") in late May to the ancient sense of love and lossCarroll experiences each autumn when it is time once again to partwith open water. Illustrated with the author's fine pen-and-inkdrawings, "Following theWater "is a gorgeous evocation of nature,an utterly unique "admission ticket to a secret corner of theworld" (Bill McKibben).

Carsten Jensen’s debut novel has taken the world by storm.Already hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, theDrowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, whoseinhabitants have sailed the world’s oceans aboard freight ships forcenturies. Spanning over a hundred years, from the mid-nineteenthcentury to the end of the Second World War, and from the barrenrocks of Newfoundland to the lush plantations of Samoa, from theroughest bars in Tasmania, to the frozen coasts of northern Russia, We, the Drowned spins a magnificent tale of love, war, andadventure, a tale of the men who go to sea and the women they leavebehind. Ships are wrecked at sea and blown up during wars, they areplaces of terror and violence, yet they continue to lure eachgeneration of Marstal men—fathers and sons—away. Strong, resilient,women raise families alone and sometimes take history into theirown hands. There are cannibals here, shrunken heads, propheticdreams, forbidden passions, cowards, heroes, devastating tragedies,an