The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom - and almost got away with it In 2011, a 26-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine website hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything - drugs, hacking sof...
David Brin's New York Times best-selling novels thrill listeners with their stirring adventures and intriguing speculation about humanity's future. Set in a universe where no species has reached sentience without the "uplifting" help of a patron race, the books delve into the greatest mystery of all: Who uplifted humankind?
理查德·道金森想必大家已经熟知，他那部经典的《自私的基因》近期又突然火了起来。看完了他的书对人生一半感觉悲观，另一半有种要“绝处逢生”的感觉。怪不得有人说出“人活着就是生命最大的意义”这样的鸡汤来。看了他的书，除了对其中复杂的演变和过程描述印象深刻之外，还有对于世界观的改变。 理查德·道金森的书对站长来说比较颠覆三观，对思维框架的形成也有重要影响。
Winner of the Best Picture Oscar 2011 Award One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century – amazingly, he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed ‘The Quack who saved a King’....
哈利波特系列算是站长英文原版书的启蒙读物，读第一部的时候是大学考6级前，是不是有点暴露年龄？- - 哈利波特系列难度不高，现在的中学生、大学生甚至是小学生都应该能读的比较顺畅，再辅以电影加深印象和理解，通读这7本书不是什么难事。读完这7本相信你的英语能力，尤其是阅读和理解的能力肯定可以到一个新层次。
It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s - never had so many 24-year-olds made so much money in so little time. In this shrewd and wickedly funny audiobook, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) ...
Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island o...
Listed as one of the essential 50 books of all time in The Guardian Inspired the Academy Award-nominated film, The Imitation Game It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by de...
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him ...
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension. In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who - or what - is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future - and our own....