傑瑞霍普金斯Jerry Hopkins 是三十餘本書籍的作者，包括紐約時報暢銷榜首的搖滾歌手吉姆莫里遜傳記《No One Here Gets Out Alive》，印行超過兩百萬冊。他也寫過貓王艾維斯普里斯萊、吉他之神吉米漢垂克斯與大衛鮑伊的傳記，擔任《滾石雜誌》特派員與協力作者長達二十年。他的近作是Periplus Editions公司二○○五年出版的《泰國秘密檔案》（Thailand Confidential）與《曼谷巴比倫》（Bangkok Babylon）。他在泰國娶妻生子，交替居住在首都曼谷與東北部素林（Surin）的某小村。 李建興 輔仁大學英文系畢，曾任漫畫、電玩、情色雜誌、科普與旅遊叢書編輯，路透社網路新聞編譯，現任自由文字工作者，譯有《搞定女人》《蝙蝠俠實戰手冊》《日本動畫瘋》《色情消費啟示錄》《情趣玩具101》等書。電郵：sams...(展开全部)

A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward? Time moves forward, not backward梕veryone knows you can't unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the univers...(展开全部)

"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory ...(展开全部)

Time moves forward, not backward-everyone knows you can't unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its...(展开全部)

This is a book exploring the questions of modern physics such as why does maths, an abstract system of logic invented by man prove to be so useful in understanding the laws of nature?

Many books attempt to teach the elements of good non-fiction writing, but only one does it in the gentle, humorous way of famous writing coach Paula LaRocque. LaRocque's new book is the result of a lifetime spent as a journalist and writing educator. This book contains 25 chapters in three sections. The first section spells out a dozen essential guidelines to good writing, from...(展开全部)

From its humble origins in J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the performative will remain vital in the twenty-first century, arguing that it was never m...(展开全部)

安德鲁·所罗门，政治、文化、心理作家，美国哥伦比亚大学医学中心临床心理学教授、康奈尔大学威尔医学院精神病学讲师、耶鲁大学贝克莱学院讲师、美国笔会中心理事会主席、耶鲁大学精神病学系跨性别精神健康特别顾问、密歇根大学抑郁症中心主任。曾获得生物精神医学学会人道奖和大脑与行为研究机构的生命贡献奖。 2013年发表TED演讲：《爱，本无条件》《抑郁，我们各自隐藏的秘密》 2014年发表TED演讲：《生命中的那些惨痛如何造就我们》 作者多年为 《纽约时报》、《纽约人》、《艺术》、《旅行和休闲》等报刊撰稿，2001年他根据自己治疗抑郁症的经历而写成的《正午的恶魔》（国内译名《走出忧郁》）荣获美国国家图书书评奖，入围2002年普利策奖，并被《泰晤士报》列入了过去10年1000本*好的书籍之一。2002年他为了治疗自己身为同性恋而在成长过程承受的伤害，针对300个拥有...(展开全部)

From the National Book Award-winning author of the “brave…deeply humane…open-minded, critically informed, and poetic” ( The New York Times ) The Noonday Demon , comes a book about the consequences of extreme personal and cultural difference between parents and children. As a gay child of straight parents, Andrew Solomon was born with a condition that was considered an illness...(展开全部)

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a ...(展开全部)