艾利克斯·巴洛斯，牛津大学数学和哲学硕士，曾经是《卫报》驻伦敦和里约热内卢记者，超级畅销书《贝利自传》的“影子写手”。

In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the stra...(展开全部)

In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the stra...(展开全部)

And over and around all these cliffs and rocks crawl entangled tendrils and weeds. Trees grow there also, but the wind's power is so great that trees have to transform themselves into clinging vines, that they may get a firm hold on the steep precipices. The oaks creep along on the ground, while their foliage hangs over them like a low ceiling; and long-limbed beeches stand in ...(展开全部)

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis a...(展开全部)

Alan Greenspan conveys the education of a lifetime.

The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federa...(展开全部)

作者| 不情愿的照护者 2019年，一篇讲述中年男子回家照护父母的文章在英国《卫报》走红。故事从一个电话开始，没错，就是我们都害怕的那种电话。父亲因心脏病发作被送进医院，留下母亲独自在家。所以作者回到了童年时期的房子，开始了照护父母的生活。但是，他的生活就像父母的健康一 样迅速崩溃了。 为了保护父母的隐私，他以匿名方式写作，现实生活中他的职业是作家、记者、编剧。 译者| 万洁 自由译者。毕业于吉林外国语大学，曾任《科幻世界》杂志社外文编辑，代表译作《时间足够你爱》。三十岁前，天马行空，眼里只有书中的豪侠与巨龙；三十岁后，责任渐重，才看到生活的琐碎与无奈，遂发愿要译兔子洞和魔衣橱的异界奇景，也要译火车站和急诊室的人世悲欢。

Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronised swimmer? Why is 'e' a magic number? The answer to these questions is contained within one simple word: MATHS. Because maths is all about patterns, and our universe is extraordinarily patterned. With enthusiasm, humour and heart, Eddie Woo shows how card tricks, conspiracy theories, ...(展开全部)