Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas s...(展开全部)

Despite the vast research literature on topics relating to contract theory, only a few of the field's core ideas are covered in microeconomics textbooks. This long-awaited book fills the need for a comprehensive textbook on contract theory suitable for use at the graduate and advanced undergraduate levels. It covers the areas of agency theory, information economics, and organiz...(展开全部)

赛莉亚·刘易斯（Celia Lewis）是英国著名的动物、植物等自然类图书的作家和插图画家，资深的自然观察者，曾获得英国皇家水彩画协会2009年大奖和温莎•牛顿学院金奖。 杨红珍，北京自然博物馆研究员、博士。主要从事动物学、博物馆学方面的科研和科普工作。主持和参与多项国家和省部级科研、科普项目。出版著译作多部，部分入选2010年新闻出版总署向青少年推荐的百种优秀图书。

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Go back to where graphic novels all started, on the Bronx street of Dropsie Avenue and A Life Force, in Will Eisner's groundbreaking 1978 creation. The human drama, the psychological insight -- Eisner captures the soul of the city and its troubled inhabitants with pen and ink. The comics medium was altered forever with the publication of this seminal work.

Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book "Le Contrat Naturel," Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants.World history is often referred to as the story of human conflict. Those struggles that are seen as our history mus...(展开全部)

This new edition of European Contract Law examines the contract rules of several different European jurisdictions, including the most important civilian systems and English common law, while attempting to articulate general principles which are common in all of them. While the first editionwas limited to a comparative analysis of the rules on formation and validity of contracts...(展开全部)

A revolutionary novel, "A Contract With God" re-creates the neighbourhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of interwoven stories. Called "a masterpiece" by R. Crumb, "A Life Force" chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics. In "Dropsie Avenue", Eisner traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over ...(展开全部)

A “back-to-basics” guide to government contract law Finally! A plain-English presentation of the basic legal concepts of government contract law for professionals at any stage in their careers.

In this compelling work, Ariella Azoulay reconsiders the political and ethical status of photography. Describing what she calls "the civil contract of photography," she gives an account of the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings. Azoulay argues that anyone--even a stateless person--who addresses others through photographs or is addressed by phot...(展开全部)