This biography of composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy, affection, and respect the life of one of France's greatest artists. After long being regarded as an oddity and an eccentric figure, Berlioz is now being accepted into the ranks of the great composers. Based on a wealth of previously unpublished sources, and on a profound understanding ...(展开全部)

As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism’s patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era dominated by extraordinary challenges and new notions about God, human capacities, em...(展开全部)

This volume introduces and systematically develops the calculus of 2-spinors. This is the first detailed exposition of this technique which leads not only to a deeper understanding of the structure of space-time, but also provides shortcuts to some very tedious calculations. Many results are given here for the first time.

This volume introduces and systematically develops the calculus of 2-spinors. This is the first detailed exposition of this technique which leads not only to a deeper understanding of the structure of space-time, but also provides shortcuts to some very tedious calculations. Many results are given here for the first time.

汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt），20世纪最伟大、最具原创性的思想家之一。她在马堡和弗莱堡大学攻读哲学、神学和古希腊语，后转至海德堡大学雅斯贝尔斯的门下，获哲学博士学位。1933年纳粹上台后流亡巴黎，1941年到了美国。自1954年开始，阿伦特在美国加利福尼亚大学、普林斯顿大学、哥伦比亚大学、社会研究新学院、纽约布鲁克林学院开办讲座，后担任过芝加哥大学教授、社会研究新学院教授。其主要著作有：《极权主义的起源》《人的条件》《精神生活》《康德哲学讲座》等。

The second volume of the definite five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth centure's greatest sf author includes such masterpieces as the title story,with its endless war being fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robot weapons, and "Imposor", where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. In these twent...(展开全部)

Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of the great cholera epidemic of 1832, showing how its course and its conceptualization were affected by the social power relations of the time. The epidemic which claimed the lives of 18,000 people in Paris alone, was a watershed in the history of medicine: In France, it shook the complacency of a med...(展开全部)

卡罗·白朗（Karel Baloun），Facebook的第一位高级软件开发人员之一。 【关于译者】 以译言网（www.yeeyan.com）为平台，二十几位志同道合的译者协作完成了本书的翻译。译言和她的译者怀着这样一个理想：用我们的双语能力为中国带来海量的优秀外语内容。欢迎到译言阅读更多外语互联网精华。欢迎加入译言。

"Cobra is composed of jewel-like sentences that unfold like paper origami in convoluted proliferation. . . . Maitreya is one of the most radiant texts I have ever read, and the translation by Suzanne Jill Levine appears as seamless as a single ocean wave, spilling us from high elegance to low camp and back again without pause."