If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you'd have no choice. What if you didn't like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?

If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you'd have no choice. What if you didn't like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?

In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to r...(展开全部)

In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and ...(展开全部)

In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and ...(展开全部)

In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to r...(展开全部)

Probability has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians for hundreds of years. Although the mathematics of probability is, for most applications, clear and uncontroversial, the interpretation of probability statements continues to be fraught with controversy and confusion. What does it mean to say that the probability of some event X occurring is 31%? In the 20t...(展开全部)

ある夏の日、水泳部ホープの九条(くじょう)は上級生の水村(みずむら)に一目惚れをする。近づいたつもりでも水村は水のようにとらえどころがなくもどかしさは募るばかり。一方、水村は、実家の映画館が立ち退きを迫られる中、誰よりも早く泳ぐ九条の姿に希望を見出していた――。胸の痛みが心地いい。極上のセンシティブ・ラブ、ついに単行本化。

扬·瓦格纳，1971年10月出生于汉堡，生活在柏林，是德国当今最有影响的诗人之一，翻译家，自由文学评论家。他曾在汉堡大学、柏林洪堡大学和爱尔兰圣三一大学研究英国和爱尔兰当代诗歌，发表了不少的诗和诗评。除了出版了诗集《试钻天空》（2001），《格里克的麻雀》（2004），《十八道派》（2007），《澳大利亚》（2010），《雨桶变奏曲》（2014），《蜂群自画像》（2016），《蝴蝶秀》（2018），他还出版了不少散文集。 所获部分奖项： 安娜·西格斯奖（2004年），恩斯特·梅斯特奖（2005年），威廉·莱曼奖（2009年），德国罗马学院的马西莫别墅奖学金（2011），蒂宾根市的弗里德里希·荷尔德林奖（2011年），保尔·希尔巴特奖（2013年），莱比锡书展奖（2015年），北京大学中坤国际诗歌奖（2017），以及同年获得格奥尔格·毕希纳奖。