Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her...
Book Description "A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe. Since its publicati...
Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) was the son of a Ukrainian gentleman farmer who was the author of several folk comedies. He attended a variety of boarding schools, where he proved an indifferent student but was admired for his theatrical abilities. In 1828 he moved to St. Petersburg and began to publish stories, and...
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹, Murakami Haruki, born January 12, 1949) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator.His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex." When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first l...
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was one of the best known and most influential authors of his time. Phantasiestücke, his earliest collection of tales, appeared in 1814. This was followed three years later by Nachstücke and then in 1819-21 by Die Serapoins brüder. Among his longer works is his second and final...
《Office 2013应用技巧实例大全(精粹版)》主要讲述了，Office2013是Microsoft公司继Office2010后推出的新一代办公处理软件，与Office2010相比，其功能更加强大，操作更为方便，与网络的结合更加紧密。《Office 2013应用技巧实例大全(精粹版)》从Office2013的基本操作和实际应用人手，全面介绍用户在日常工作中最常用的Word、Excel...
Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same road that Germany followed to Nazism. Self-sacrifice,...