Chandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics who has been a major contributor to the theories of white dwarfs and black holes. "Wali has given us a magnificent portrait of Chandra, full of life and color, with a deep understanding of the three cultures--Indian, British, and American--in which Cha...(展开全部)

尤金姆•加尔夫(Joakim Garff），神学博士，克尔凯郭尔研究专家，对丹麦神学、神学与哲学交叉的领域有深入的研究。现就职于哥本哈根大学克尔凯郭尔研究中心，是克尔凯郭尔著作丹麦语全集出版项目的主编之一。

尤金姆•加尔夫(Joakim Garff），神学博士，克尔凯郭尔研究专家，对丹麦神学、神学与哲学交叉的领域有深入的研究。现就职于哥本哈根大学克尔凯郭尔研究中心，是克尔凯郭尔著作丹麦语全集出版项目的主编之一。

The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel—a particular packaging of bits—conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture i...(展开全部)

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a notorious artist. When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creati...(展开全部)

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Br...(展开全部)

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.

彼得·布朗（Peter Brown），普林斯顿大学荣休历史学教授，权威的奥古斯丁专家，晚期罗马帝国宗教史方面最杰出的历史学家之一。著有《西方基督教的兴起》（The Rise of Westem Christendom），《身体与社会》（The Body and Society： Men， Women， and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity），《古代晚期世界》（The World of Late Antiquity： AD 150 - 750）等。

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)