McCarthy's most celebrated novel portrays the experiences of eight young women from Vassar College, Class of '33. As the story opens, they meet in New York City for the wedding of Kay, one of "the group." The author then describes the lives, loves, and aspirations of these women until they reconvene seven years later in the same city for Kay's funeral. "Juicy, shocking, witty, ...(展开全部)

Group theory is the branch of mathematics that studies symmetry, found in crystals, art, architecture, music and many other contexts. But its beauty is lost on students when it is taught in a technical style that is difficult to understand. Visual Group Theory assumes only a high school mathematics background and covers a typical undergraduate course in group theory from a thor...(展开全部)

During the last 40 years the theory of finite groups has developed dramatically. The finite simple groups have been classified and are becoming better understood. Tools exist to reduce many questions about arbitrary finite groups to similar questions about simple groups. Since the classification there have been numerous applications of this theory in other branches of mathemati...(展开全部)

During the last 40 years the theory of finite groups has developed dramatically. The finite simple groups have been classified and are becoming better understood. Tools exist to reduce many questions about arbitrary finite groups to similar questions about simple groups. Since the classification there have been numerous applications of this theory in other branches of mathemati...(展开全部)

Group theory is the branch of mathematics that studies symmetry, found in crystals, art, architecture, music and many other contexts. But its beauty is lost on students when it is taught in a technical style that is difficult to understand. Visual Group Theory assumes only a high school mathematics background and covers a typical undergraduate course in group theory from a thor...(展开全部)

Marriage has never been more fragile. But the same things that have made it so have also made a good marriage more fulfilling than ever before. In this enlightening and hugely entertaining book, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the sexual torments of Victorian couples to demonstrate how recent the ...(展开全部)

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he ...(展开全部)

塔亚莉·琼斯（Tayari Jones） 1970年出生于亚特兰大，美国当代黑人作家。已获众多文学奖项，同时也是罗格斯大学纽瓦克学院副教授，内华达大学黑山学院访问学者。著有四部小说，其中《银雀》（Silver Sparrow）曾入选美国教育协会精选图书库。 2018年出版的《美国式婚姻》在美国已印刷超过500， 000册，被奥巴马列入夏季书单，同时入选奥普拉图书俱乐部，提名美国国家图书奖，Goodreads读者年度选择奖，被评为2018年Apple Books年度最佳书籍。2019年本书获得美国阿斯彭语言文学奖，美国黑人图书馆协会小说文学奖，并入围奥威尔文学奖长名单。 2019年6月5日凭借《美国式婚姻》，塔亚莉获得女性小说奖(Women's Prize for Fiction)，击败去年布克奖得主安娜·伯恩斯（Anna Burns）的和前布克奖得主...(展开全部)