毛姆，英国小说家、戏剧家。生于律师家庭。父母早死，由伯父接回英国抚养。原来学医，后转而致力写作。他的作品常以冷静、客观乃至挑剔的态度审视人生，基调超然，带讽刺和怜悯意味，在国内外拥有大量读者。著名的有戏剧《圈子》，长篇小说《人生的枷锁》、《月亮和六便士》，短篇小说集《叶的震颤》、《卡苏里那树》、《阿金》等。

People usually think of books in terms of their contents, their texts, with less thought for books as artefacts. In fact books may possess all kinds of potentially interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects, or because they have unique properties deriving from the ways they have been printed, bound, annotated, beautified or defaced. This text expl...(展开全部)

作者 大卫·皮尔森：英国首屈一指的图书史专家，剑桥大学博士，曾担任英国国立艺术图书馆收藏部主任、英国目录学协会主席。著有《书籍历史中的来源研究指南》《牛津装帧设计》《英国书籍装帧风格》等。 译者 恺 蒂：撰稿人、策展人、制片人。毕业于上海复旦大学与伦敦城市大学，曾任职于英国国立艺术图书馆，现定居伦敦。已出版作品集《海天冰谷说书人》，《酿一碗怀旧的酒》，《书缘•情缘》，《书里的风景》等。译作《莎士比亚书店》等。 设计师 朱嬴椿：书衣坊工作室设计总监。曾多次获得国内外设计大奖。《不裁》获2007年度“世界最美的书”，《蚁呓》被联合国教科文组织评为2008年度“最美图书特别奖”。2016年作品《虫子书》被大英图书馆永久收藏。

Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The Japanese go to the most extraordinary lengths and expense to eat the finest, most delectable, and downright freakiest food imaginable. Their creativity, dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm, whale penis and octopus ice cream, is only now beginning to be fully appreciated in th...(展开全部)

Putnam and Beyond takes the reader on a journey through the world of college mathematics, focusing on some of the most important concepts and results in the theories of polynomials, linear algebra, real analysis in one and several variables, differential equations, coordinate geometry, trigonometry, elementary number theory, combinatorics, and probability. Using the W.L. Putnam...(展开全部)

A volume of studies of utilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice. All but two of the papers have been commissioned especially for the volume, and between them they represent not only a wide range of arguments for and against utilitarianism but also a first-class selection of the most interesting and influential work in this ve...(展开全部)

保罗•阿扎尔（Paul Hazard, 1878-1944），法国二十世纪上半叶著名学者、历史学家，先后任教于法国里昂大学、巴黎索帮大学以及美国哥伦比亚大学，1939年入选法兰西学院院士。代表作有《欧洲意识危机：1680-1715》、《十八世纪欧洲思想史：从孟德斯鸠到莱辛》、《书，儿童与成人》等。

In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B F Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society. The book urges us to re-examine the ideals we have taken for granted and to consider the possibility of a radically behaviourist approach to human problems -- one that has appeared to some in...(展开全部)

The Universe and Beyond is a fact-packed, up-to-date guide to the universe written by best-selling astronomy author Terence Dickinson. This new edition includes all the most recent astronomical discoveries and events and features imaginative astronomical illustrations and dramatic photography from the Hubble Space Telescope, space probes and the largest observatories on Earth. ...(展开全部)

作者:（加）特伦斯·迪金森 TERENCE DICKINSON 译者:陈冬妮 特伦斯·迪金森是享誉世界的加拿大天文科普作家。自从5 岁时看到耀眼的流星，迪金森就对天文学产生了兴趣。20 世纪60 年代到70年代，迪金森是天文馆的工作人员，此后他成为全职的天文作家和编辑,《探寻宇宙 现代天文学通俗指南》和《夜观星空》都是他的代表作品。他的旅行足迹遍及世界各地最大的天文台站，也因此燃起了创作本书的欲望。除了已撰写的15 本天文书籍外，迪金森还编辑出版了加拿大的《天空新闻》杂志。他获得了众多奖项，包括纽约学院儿童科学书籍年度奖、太平洋天文协会克伦普客－罗伯兹公众天文学特殊贡献奖、加拿大勋章、安大略省彼得伯勒市特伦特大学荣誉博士等，第5272号小行星也以迪金森的姓氏命名。