What does it mean to assert or deny the existence of a legal system? How can one determine whether a given law belongs to a certain legal system? What kind of structure do these systems have, that is--what necessary relations obtain between their laws? The examination of these problems in this volume leads to a new approach to traditional jurisprudential question, though the co...(展开全部)

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has di...(展开全部)

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has di...(展开全部)

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, "The Broom of the System" stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenoreas great-grandmother has ...(展开全部)

We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock, or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events - for example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded by soaring hills and valleys,...(展开全部)

南森·法勒（Nathan Filer) 1980年生于英国布里斯托尔，曾在一家精神病院工作多年，现为作家、自由撰稿人、表演诗人及大学讲师。 他为《纽约时报》《卫报》《每日邮报》等报刊撰稿，并时常做客英国BBC广播电台的读书节目。他的单人诗朗诵是一些英国文艺活动的固定表演 节目，包括纬度音乐节、艾略特港口音乐节、切尔登汉姆文学节等。而他也曾凭借戏剧短片《俄狄浦斯王》收获英国BBC最佳电影新人奖殊荣。 2013年他的长篇小说《坠落之愕》在英国甫一出版即引起轰动，摘得多项文学大奖，并成功跻身超级畅销书之列，同时将与二十余国的读者见面。

出生在马萨诸塞州的波士顿，父母都是新英格兰人从小在乡村环境里长大，但她年轻的时候生活在纽约市，是一名杂志和旅游书籍的编辑。目前生活在加利福尼亚州的马林县(Marin Country)。除《文化震撼之旅·美国》外，她还写了《无烟生存》(Surviving Without Cigarettes)和《马里兰州的艺术》(The art of Maryhand)两本书。这是真正的美国人作风，在继续写作的同时，她现在还是一名心理医生。