A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • The expanded wine guide from the creators of WineFolly.com, packed with new information for devotees and newbies alike. Wine Folly became a sensation for its inventive, easy-to-digest approach to learning about wine. Now in a new, expanded hardcover edition, Wine Folly: Magnum Edition is the perfect guide for anyone looking to take his or her wine...(展开全部)

A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing...Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot fo...(展开全部)

First published in Paris in 1511, "The Praise of Folly" has enjoyed enormous and highly controversial success from the author's lifetime down to our own day. "The Folly" has no rival, except perhaps Thomas More's "Utopia", as the most intense and lively presentation of the literary, social and theological aims and methods of Northern Humanism. Clarence H. Miller's translation o...(展开全部)

A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing...Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot fo...(展开全部)

玛德琳•帕克特（Madeline Puckette） 侍酒师大师公会（CMS）认证侍酒师，曾在多家餐厅担任侍酒师，拥有丰富的葡萄酒理论知识与实践经验。她创办的WineFolly网站（葡萄酒评论家）荣获2013~2014年度葡萄酒博客奖，并与诸多全球顶尖葡萄酒品牌，以及侍酒师大师公会等机构建立合作。 2012年，玛德琳被Quora评为顶级葡萄酒作家；2015年，被著名葡萄酒杂志《葡萄酒爱好者》评为“40个40岁以下的葡萄酒潮流引领者”之一。 除了品酒、写作、设计葡萄酒评论家网站，玛德琳还喜欢开车、自行车运动、跑步和户外游泳。成为侍酒师之前，玛德琳是音乐制作人和歌手。 贾斯汀•海默克（Justin Hammack） 葡萄酒评论家网站创始人之一，负责概念开发、互动工具设计和品牌开拓。除此之外，他负责通过创意的方法，强调、传递红酒知识，并负责网站所有的视频制...(展开全部)

Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that highlight...(展开全部)

A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuba...(展开全部)

The authors use copious amounts of data ... to make the compelling case that any well-informed person should have seen the Great Recession coming. The essence of their book is that while financial crises come in different varieties, they are not mysteriously born of undersea earthquakes, but frequently occurring events that can be spotted and even controlled if politicians and ...(展开全部)

The authors use copious amounts of data ... to make the compelling case that any well-informed person should have seen the Great Recession coming. The essence of their book is that while financial crises come in different varieties, they are not mysteriously born of undersea earthquakes, but frequently occurring events that can be spotted and even controlled if politicians and ...(展开全部)