Les Cent contes drolatiques - premier dixain is Balzac's first collection of ribald short stories inspired by Rabelais, Boccacio, La Fontaine and other classics of the genre. The text is that of the 1832 edition. The book comes with a cd-rom containing an extensive critical apparatus established by Andrew Oliver a well-known Balzac scholar.

Francis Bacon's New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimental science. It challenged the entire edifice of the philosophy and learning of Bacon's time, and left its mark on all subsequent discussions of scientific method. This volume presents a new translation of the text into moder...(展开全部)

Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. For decades the "Spirit of Whampoa" was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically. But of all the battles these soldiers have fought, the most challenging one was the civil war that resulted in the "great divide" of China in the mid-twentieth century. In 1949 ...(展开全部)

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In The Wall Street Journal , Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War . Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy ...(展开全部)

Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC. This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthie...(展开全部)

This is the inspiration behind the HBO series "The Pacific." This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and f...(展开全部)

冯骥才，作家、画家、文化学者。1942年生于天津。已出版各种作品集近百种，代表作有《啊！》《雕花烟斗》《高女人和她的矮丈夫》《神鞭》《三寸金莲》《珍珠鸟》《一百个人的十年》《俗世奇人》等。作品被译成英、法、德、意、日、俄、荷、西、韩、越等十余种文字，在海外出版各种译本四十余种。

冯骥才，作家、画家、文化学者。1942年生于天津。已出版各种作品集近百种，代表作有《啊！》《雕花烟斗》《高女人和她的矮丈夫》《神鞭》《三寸金莲》《珍珠鸟》《一百个人的十年》《俗世奇人》等。作品被译成英、法、德、意、日、俄、荷、西、韩、越等十余种文字，在海外出版各种译本四十余种。

“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” --Warren Buffett In March of 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, an eccentric, whi...(展开全部)