Review "[Apollonius's Conics] is one of the greatest scientific books of antiquity." "[Apollonius was a] giant, not simply as compared with men of antiquity, but even with men of all times. ... [T]he ingenuity that enabled him to discover so much with imperfect tools [i.e., lacking the arts of analytic and projective geometry] is truly admirable...such achievements pass our ima...(展开全部)

Review "[Apollonius's Conics] is one of the greatest scientific books of antiquity." "[Apollonius was a] giant, not simply as compared with men of antiquity, but even with men of all times. ... [T]he ingenuity that enabled him to discover so much with imperfect tools [i.e., lacking the arts of analytic and projective geometry] is truly admirable...such achievements pass our ima...(展开全部)

安东尼·布朗 1946年出生在英格兰的雪菲尔，自小喜爱画画与说故事。十六岁进入里兹艺术学院（Leeds College of Art）学习，在美术馆里接触英国超现实主义画家法兰斯·培根（Francis Bacon）的作品。十七岁那年，父亲猝然离世，在安东尼·布朗心里造成极大的冲击。艺术学院毕业后，安东尼·布朗参加了圣巴瑟洛莫（St.Bartholomow's Hospital）提供的医学绘画课程，课程结束后，进入曼彻斯特皇家医院担任人体解剖图的绘制工作。从1971年开始，他为世界著名的Gordon Fraser卡片公司设计贺卡，深受大众喜爱之后，他又运用熟练的插画技巧制作图画书，于1976年出版了第一本图画书《穿越魔镜》（Through the Magic Mirror）,由此开启了图画书创作的生涯。他自写自画的《大猩猩》（Gorilla）、《动物园...(展开全部)

安东尼·布朗 1946年出生在英格兰的雪菲尔，自小喜爱画画与说故事。十六岁进入里兹艺术学院（Leeds College of Art）学习，在美术馆里接触英国超现实主义画家法兰斯·培根（Francis Bacon）的作品。十七岁那年，父亲猝然离世，在安东尼·布朗心里造成极大的冲击。艺术学院毕业后，安东尼·布朗参加了圣巴瑟洛莫（St.Bartholomow's Hospital）提供的医学绘画课程，课程结束后，进入曼彻斯特皇家医院担任人体解剖图的绘制工作。从1971年开始，他为世界著名的Gordon Fraser卡片公司设计贺卡，深受大众喜爱之后，他又运用熟练的插画技巧制作图画书，于1976年出版了第一本图画书《穿越魔镜》（Through the Magic Mirror）,由此开启了图画书创作的生涯。他自写自画的《大猩猩》（Gorilla）、《动物园...(展开全部)

Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewellery, kingshi...(展开全部)

This classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Contents include types and properties of numerical data, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, populations and samples, and probability. "Exce...(展开全部)

弗兰克•威廉•沃尔班克（F. W. Walbank，1909-2008），生前为利物浦大学名誉退休教授、不列颠学会会员。曾在剑桥大学的彼得豪斯学院（Peterhouse）学习古典学，从1951年到1977年间，一直是利物浦大学的古代史和古典考古学的拉思伯恩（Rathbone）教授，他也是匹兹堡大学访问学者、加州大学伯克利分校的访问学者、普林斯顿高级研究院的成员。其出版的著作包括《马其顿的腓力五世》、《波里比阿》、《有关波里比阿的历史注释》（3卷）、《可怕的革命》（与N. G. L. Hammond合著）以及《马其顿史，公元前336-前167年》（第3卷）。他也是《剑桥古代史》第7卷、第8卷的主编之一。

This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world's foremost military thinkers--a man generally regarded as the "Clausewitz of the 20th century." Liddell Hart stressed movement, flexibilty, surprise. He saw that in most military campaigns dislocation of the enemy's psychological and physical balance is p...(展开全部)

A newly revised and updated guide to the world’s best literature—all at your fingertips. For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of reviews covering a century of memorable writing. Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the writ...(展开全部)