Some boxes should never be opened. For the first time, the complete A Series of Unfortunate Events – including the highly feared #13: The End – is available in one awful package! We can't keep you from succumbing to this international bestselling phenomenon, but we can hide all thirteen books in a huge, elaborately illustrated, shrink–wrapped box, perfect for filling an emp...(展开全部)

Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven by chance. A Series of Fortunate Events tells the story of the awesome po...(展开全部)

introduction by Bernard Tschumi In A Landscape of Events, the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces."Urban disorientation, the machines of war, a...(展开全部)

This complete catalog of Monet's famous Water Lilies-âfeaturing 210 paintings from private and public collectionsâ - is an essential volume on a key contribution to impressionist art. Monet, the father of French impressionist painting, devoted twenty-five years to a series of paintings of the water lilies that floated in the pond of his lavish garden in Giverny.This volume is d...(展开全部)

Stephanie Cole (Doc Martin), Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam (The Thick of It) star in the complete second series of the hit sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. Run by the forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (an unfortunate marriage, namewise, but in Carolyn's opinion, marginally bett...(展开全部)

This book contains several contributions on the most outstanding events in the development of twentieth century mathematics, representing a wide variety of specialities in which Russian and Soviet mathematicians played a considerable role. The articles are written in an informal style, from mathematical philosophy to the description of the development of ideas, personal memorie...(展开全部)

The Encyclopedia of Animals is a lavishly illustrated, authoritative, and comprehensive exploration of the rich and intriguing world of animals. Written by an international team of specialists, spectacularly adorned with a gallery of more than 2,000 color illustrations, and supplemented with distribution maps, detailed and beautifully rendered diagrams, and some of the world's ...(展开全部)

李元，1925年生于太原。资深科普工作者，已从事科普事业60多年，中国科普研究所研究员。主持并参与了本书的翻译工作。他曾在中国科学院紫金山天文台、北京天文馆、中国科协工作。是北京天文馆和《天文爱好者》期刊的创始人之一，获得多种奖项。1998年国际天文学联合会将国际编号6741的小行星命名为“李元星”。以表彰他对天文科普事业所做出的杰出贡献。 参加本书翻译的译者还有曹军、李鉴、张子平、陈冬妮。他们大多拥有高学历和高级职称。有丰富的学识和多年天文科普工作的经验，均在北京天文馆工作。 帕特里克·摩尔(Patrick Moore)，英帝国司令勋章获得者、英国皇家学会会员、英国皇家天文学会会员。终生研究月球。是许多月面特征的发现者。特别是在难于观测的边缘区域。他也是现代天文学的一位著名的诠释者。他主持的每月一次的BBC电视节目《夜空》。对宇宙...(展开全部)

Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the last century. To read him today is to be plunged into an era whose culture wars were easily as ferocious as our own, in the company of a writer of boundless cu...(展开全部)