Even before the events in the supermarket, Jim Ironheart should have known trouble was ing. During the night he dreamed of being pursued across a field by a flock of large blackbirds that shrieked around him in a turbulent flapping of wings and tore at him with hooked beaks as precisely honed...

　I FOUND HIM in Ponta Pora, a pleasant little town in Brazil, on the border of Paraguay, in a land still known as the Frontier.　They found him living in a shaded brick house on Rua Tiradentes, a wide avenue with trees down the center and barefoot boys dribbling soccer balls along the hot paveme...

THE MARK OF DEATH　　THE MOUNTAIN LIMITED was clicking slowly over the rails that trail through the highest and wildest land in America-the western slope of the Rockies.　　Speed was cut down as the big special labored toward the highest point on its line-nearly seven thousand feet above sea l...

To Carolyn Conger"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."ALBERT EINSTEIN"Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. plex controllable behavior seems precluded."STUART KAUFFMAN"Sequelae are inh...

　　WIN in the Gulf　　An hour before dawn, in the Straits of Hormuz: a dark and dangerous time and place. The air was a chill mixture of sea and sweetness, giving no hint of the heat that would be generated once day took over. The massive Japanese-registered oil-tanker Son of Takashuni slowly pl...

　　IT WAS THE PIVOTAL TEACHING of Pluthero Quexos, the most celebrated dramatist of the Second Dominion, that in any fiction, no matter how ambitious its scope or profound its theme, there was only ever room for three players. Between warring kings, a peacemaker; between adoring spouses, a seduc...

枸杞肉丝【菜名】 枸杞肉丝 【所属菜系】 全部 【特点】 滋阴补肾。适于体弱乏力、肾虚目眩、视觉模糊等症。 【原料】 枸杞、瘦猪肉青笋 调料：精盐、白糖、味精、料酒、酱油、淀粉、猪油、麻油 【制作过程】 １、将猪肉洗净去筋，切成2寸长的丝；青笋切成同样的丝；枸杞洗净。２、炒锅上火，将猪油烧 热，再将肉丝、笋...

　7120 B.C.　What is now Hudson Bay, Canada　The intruder came from beyond. A nebulous celestial body as old as the universe itself, it had been born in a vast cloud of ice, rocks, dust, and gas when the outer planets of the solar system were formed 4.6 billion years ago. Soon after its scattered...

　　南怀瑾先生讲述　　　　第一部分　　讲经缘起　　我们今天开始讲‘药师经’，为什么要讲这本经呢？主要的动机是为了这里的出家同学们，将来出去弘扬佛法的时候，必须要了解这本经。在佛教里，‘药师佛’可以说是一本在民间流传很普遍的经典，也可以说是很基本的一本经。　　在民间的佛教观念里，大都是相信因果，相...

　They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever ...

　　JOB INTERVIEW　　　　Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.　　Ullman stood five-five, and when he moved, it was with the prissy speed that seems to be the exclusive domain of all small plump men. The part in his hair was exact, and his dark suit was sober but forting. I am a man you ...

　　　Fire from the sky came thrusting down, a dazzling crooked spear of white light that lived for an instant only, long enough to splinter a lone tree at the jutting edge of the seaside cliff. The impact beneath the howling darkness of the sky stunned eyes and ears alike. Ben winced away from t...

周泽雄三国作品集 作者：周泽雄目录 　序 再煮一壶英雄酒千夫所指江湖独狼天生郭奉孝郁郁乎文若文和乱武泡沫英雄两张臭嘴江东那一双碧眼玄而又玄的英雄千古云长一代完人曹操魔方三国时期的女人英雄末路文学的虚实与历史的曲直话说"不分胜负"附　色香味三绝的英雄盛宴 　序 再煮一壶英雄酒 　　　一部二十...

第一回花落水流前尘等一梦情深意蜜好事化成烟泪珠生自浮沉宦海息隐家园，过着逍遥的岁月，光阴忽忽，不觉已二十年多了。他瞧着一年年的花开花落，啼鸟惊心，逝水东去。每每对花痴立，口中却念着“感时花溅泪，恨别鸟惊心”的句子。好像过去生命中二十年的痛史，陡上心头，不住地在他的脑海里盘旋。抚着绿叶中的美丽花朵...

　To　my gentle Reader　William Plomer　　PART ONE: HAPPENSTANCE　　CHAPTER ONE　　REFLECTIONS IN A DOUBLE BOURBON　　JAMES BOND, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.　It was part of his profession to kill people...

出版说明这套“丛书”的特点是：1. 按国家分册分别研究介绍各国的综合国情，融地理、历史、民族、经济、社会、文化和风土习俗于一体，内容丰富；2.以发展观点为主线，贯穿全书，系统全面；3. 集知识性、实用性、趣味性和学术性于一体，文笔流畅，可读性强；4.本丛书是由我国数十名专家、学者、教授分别撰写，熔进了他们...

　　第一章 寒流来袭　　Ⅰ　　数十秒钟之后即将进入宇宙历七九九年，帝国历四九○年，莱因哈特。冯。罗严克拉姆公爵仰望夜空，他第一次看到的数个星座在深蓝色的夜幕中闪灿着光芒。迈入新的年度之后，即将迎接第二十三个人生寒暑的年轻征服者，自他那冰蓝色的瞳孔中，朝着夜空放射出如冰箭般的犀利眼神。那是一种无言的...

　　I stood there on the beach and said, "Good-by, Butterfly," and the ship slowly turned, then headed out toward deep water. It would make it back into port at the lighthouse of Cabra, I knew, for that place lay near to Shadow.　Turning away, I regarded the black line of trees near at hand, know...

　January 1954　　The Boeing C-97 Stratocruiser bore the look of a crypt. Perhaps the image was bred by the cold winter night, or perhaps it came from the gusting snow that was piling an icy shroud on the wings and fuselage. The flickering lights from the cockpit windshield and the fleeting shado...

　　CHAPTER ONE　　THE YOUNG curate shivered in the cold and felt uneasy. Something was wrong but it was difficult to work out exactly what. The atmosphere for a start; when he had set out on the quarter-mile walk from his home to the church, a warm spring breeze had fanned his cherubic features ...