A shocking exposé of Volkswagen’s fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world’s largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. By early 2017, VW had settled with Ameri...(展开全部)

Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family members have drifted far from their New England village - and into the demented caprices of the mighty, the bad graces of the IRS and the humiliating abyss of adulterous passion. A novel of large and tender vision, "The Wapshot Scandal" is filled wit...(展开全部)

This is the softcover reprint of the very popular hardcover edition. The theory of large cardinals is currently a broad mainstream of modern set theory, the main area of investigation for the analysis of the relative consistency of mathematical propositions and possible new axioms for mathematics. The first of a projected multi-volume series, this book provides a comprehensive ...(展开全部)

After describing the beginnings of the subject - the theory of large cardinals - a comprehensive account is given of the work in the 1960s on partition properties, forcing and sets of reals, and aspects of measurability (including saturated ideals and inner models of measurability). Then discussed are the strong hypotheses like supercompactness up to Kunen's inconsistency. The ...(展开全部)

From a two-time Olympic coach and creator of the Pose Method who has trained the running elite, an essential guide for all runners seeking to go faster and farther without injury Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run—and the wildly popular natural running trend it sparked—changed the way we think about running, but it has also prompted many questions: Have we been running the wro...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature", an extension of "Toward a Psychology of Being", Maslow explores the complexities of human nature by using both the empirical methods of science and the aesthetics of philosophical inquiry. With essays on biology, synergy, creativity, cognition, self-actualization, and the hierarchy of needs, this posthumous work is a synthesis of Maslow...(展开全部)

远藤周作（1923—1996） 日本著名小说家，出生于东京，毕业于庆应义塾大学法文系。幼时因父亲工作调动举家迁往中国大连，回国后受洗，战后前往法国里昂大学进修法国文学。与吉行淳之介、安冈章太郎等同为战后日本文坛的“第三代新人”。 1955年短篇小说《白种人》获芥川奖。1958年《海与毒药》获每日出版文化奖。1966年《沉默》获谷崎润一郎奖。1980年《武士》获野间文艺奖。1994年《深河》获每日艺术奖。1995年远藤周作被授予日本文化勋章。 远藤周作被称为日本信仰文学的先驱，他致力于探讨日本的精神风土与基督教信仰问题，在他的创作中始终贯穿着对“罪与罚”的沉重思考 译者简介 林水福，日本文学研究者，翻译家，台湾芥川龙之介学会会长，台湾石川啄木学会会长，日本东北大学文学博士，南台科技大学教授；研究范畴以日本文学与日本文学翻译为主，并延伸到台湾文学研究及散...(展开全部)

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction” and lauded its illumination, “through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we...(展开全部)

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction” and lauded its illumination, “through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we...(展开全部)