A new edition of the almost legendary textbook by Schlichting completely revised by Klaus Gersten is now available. This book presents a comprehensive overview of boundary-layer theory and its application to all areas of fluid mechanics, with emphasis on the flow past bodies (e.g. aircraft aerodynamics). It contains the latest knowledge of the subject based on a thorough review...(展开全部)

Now in its eighth edition, this continues to be the indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. Revised and updated throughout, it remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. The authors provide a commanding overview of recent global developments and new ideas in sociology. Classic debates are also g...(展开全部)

Now in its eighth edition, this continues to be the indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. Revised and updated throughout, it remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. The authors provide a commanding overview of recent global developments and new ideas in sociology. Classic debates are also g...(展开全部)

The landmark work on the social significance of childhood. The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individuals' growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we perceive ourselves and soc...(展开全部)

Edward Snow's A Study of Vermeer, first published in 1979 and here presented in an expanded and elaborately revised version, starts from a single premise: that we respond so intensely to Vermeer because his paintings reach so deeply into our lives. Our desire for images, the distances that separate us, the validations we seek from the still world, the traces of ghostliness in o...(展开全部)

费正清（John King Fairbank）是世界上最负声望的中国问题观察家。在第二次世界大战期间，他曾在中国研读、旅行、教学。1955-1973年费正清担任哈佛大学东亚研究中心主任，并担任哈佛的希根森（Francis Lee Higginson）历史讲座教席。直至他逝世前（1991年），他领导着美国的中国问题的学术研究。当今美国诸多有影响的中国问题专家皆出于其门下。在中美正式建立外交关系前夕，两国高层领导人案头摆放的就是他的《美国与中国》。 费正清的主要著作有：《美国与中国》（The United States and China），《伟大的中国革命（1800-1985年）》（The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985)、《观察中国》（China Watch）及《中国：传统与变迁》（China:Tradition...(展开全部)

费正清（John King Fairbank）是世界上最负声望的中国问题观察家。在第二次世界大战期间，他曾在中国研读、旅行、教学。1955-1973年费正清担任哈佛大学东亚研究中心主任，并担任哈佛的希根森（Francis Lee Higginson）历史讲座教席。直至他逝世前（1991年），他领导着美国的中国问题的学术研究。当今美国诸多有影响的中国问题专家皆出于其门下。在中美正式建立外交关系前夕，两国高层领导人案头摆放的就是他的《美国与中国》。 费正清的主要著作有：《美国与中国》（The United States and China），《伟大的中国革命（1800-1985年）》（The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985)、《观察中国》（China Watch）及《中国：传统与变迁》（China:Tradition...(展开全部)

Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen's Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Now in its eighth edition, this landmark text continues to offer outstanding coverage of more than a century of thought and writing about the movies. Incorporating classic texts by pioneers i...(展开全部)