A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways. The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. These are just a few of writer Caspar Henderson’s favorite sounds. In A Book of Noises, Henderson invites readers to use their ears a little better—to tun...(展开全部)

In these notes, Professor Kreps surveys the standard models of choice under uncertainty that lie at the heart of microeconomic theory. Choice and preference, ordinal utility, von Neumann-Morganstern utility and utility functions for money, and subjective probability and subjective expected utility are among the standard topics covered. These notes provide a rigorous but accessi...(展开全部)

"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In the first part of the book, Mr. Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs a...(展开全部)

When Jeanne is accepted on to a PhD course, she is over the moon, brimming with excitement and grand plans – but is the world ready for her masterful analysis of labyrinth motifs in Kafka’s The Trial? At first Jeanne throws herself into research with great enthusiasm, but as time goes by, it becomes clear that things aren’t quite going according to plan. Notes on a Thesis is a ...(展开全部)

Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and something quite different: "cinema"-which is for him nothing but an attempt to photograph theater and use it for the screen. Director of "The Trial of Joan of Arc, Pickpocket, A Prisoner Escapes, Diary of a Country Priest, Money," and many other classic films, Robert Bresson is, quit...(展开全部)

The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How...(展开全部)

The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How...(展开全部)

邱妙津，台湾彰化人，一九六九年生，一九九一年毕业于台湾大学，一九九二年赴法国，留学巴黎第八大学心理系，一九九五年六月在巴黎自杀身亡，年仅二十六岁。邱妙津多方面的才华在大学时代就开始充分显现，曾获得时报文学奖推荐奖、《联合文学》中篇小说新人奖等，并拍摄有一部三十分钟的十六厘米影片《鬼的狂欢》。主要文学作品有《鬼的狂欢》《鳄鱼手记》《蒙马特遗书》《邱妙津日记》等。《鳄鱼手记》已被翻译成英语、法语、德语、土耳其语、西班牙语和意大利语等多种语言。 2014年，《蒙马特遗书》列入《纽约书评》“经典重现”（ NYRB Classics）出版，邱妙津是该书系继张爱玲之后第二位华语作者。 2015年，英文版《蒙马特遗书》入围美国最佳翻译图书奖长名单。 2017年，《鳄鱼手记》亦列入《纽约书评》经典书系出版。 2018年，英文版《鳄鱼手记》获卢西恩·斯泰克亚洲翻译奖。...(展开全部)

邱妙津，台湾彰化人，一九六九年生，一九九一年毕业于台湾大学，一九九二年赴法国，留学巴黎第八大学心理系，一九九五年六月在巴黎自杀身亡，年仅二十六岁。邱妙津多方面的才华在大学时代就开始充分显现，曾获得时报文学奖推荐奖、《联合文学》中篇小说新人奖等，并拍摄有一部三十分钟的十六厘米影片《鬼的狂欢》。主要文学作品有《鬼的狂欢》《鳄鱼手记》《蒙马特遗书》《邱妙津日记》等。《鳄鱼手记》已被翻译成英语、法语、德语、土耳其语、西班牙语和意大利语等多种语言。 2014年，《蒙马特遗书》列入《纽约书评》“经典重现”（ NYRB Classics）出版，邱妙津是该书系继张爱玲之后第二位华语作者。 2015年，英文版《蒙马特遗书》入围美国最佳翻译图书奖长名单。 2017年，《鳄鱼手记》亦列入《纽约书评》经典书系出版。 2018年，英文版《鳄鱼手记》获卢西恩·斯泰克亚洲翻译奖。...(展开全部)