The winner of multiple Edgar, Shamus, and Maltese Falcon Awards, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block has elevated the detective novel to high art--combining grit with intelligence, suspense with stunning emotional complexity and power. And in unlicensed private investigator Matthew Scudder, he has created a character whose depth and stark humanity is unrivall...(展开全部)

Here is the classic, much-read introduction to the craft and history of mathematics by E.T. Bell, a leading figure in mathematics in America for half a century. Men of Mathematics accessibly explains the major mathematics, from the geometry of the Greeks through Newton's calculus and on to the laws of probability, symbolic logic, and the fourth dimension. In addition, the boo...(展开全部)

For much of its extraordinary life, Baghdad, known for centuries as the "City of Peace," enjoyed both cultural and commercial preeminence. For five centuries it was the seat of the Abbasid Empire, a marvel of glittering palaces, exquisite parks, magnificent mosques, and Islamic colleges. It was a city boasting the most accomplished astronomers, mathematicians, doctors, musician...(展开全部)

Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions...(展开全部)

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"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

20世纪初期，中国正经历着一场重大的社会文化变革，千年帝国分崩离析，民族面临着巨大的变革。现代化的边缘。在这样的背景下，一位来自北方的沉默寡言男子，在狂风暴雨中，踏上了前往南方城市的危险旅程。他怀着一个新生婴儿，寻找孩子的母亲和一座已不存在的城市。 这是一个关于两个人的故事：一个男人在回到抛弃他的女人的故乡后，获得了意想不到的成功；另一个男人在寻找的女人，却神秘失踪，踏上了充满波折的旅程。这是一个关于消失的工艺和古老的风俗的故事，关于暴力、爱情和友情。重要的是，这是一个关于变化和叙事本身的故事，充满了生动的人物和出人意料的转折——一个史诗般的故事，如时间本身般无情，又如经典的冒险故事般扣人心弦。 In the early 20th century, China is a land undergoing a momentous social and c...(展开全部)

St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and "City of God" is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bibl...(展开全部)

As Dalrymple's first book, "In Xanadu", traversed thousands of miles, now he traverses thousands of years. In the course of 12 months in Delhi, he peels back the successive encrusting layers of history, using both material and human remains of each of the eight cities of Delhi, interlacing innumerable stories with the present and ending with the Delhi creation myth contained in...(展开全部)