Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has now been asked, revealing the truth from the beginning of his career as a young curator in his Zurich kitchen to his recent position as co-director of the Serpentine in London. This book is a ''production of reality conversations,'' otherwise known as interviews. It undertakes the impossible:...(展开全部)

McCawley supplements his earlier book--which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic--with new material on the logic of conditional sentences, linguistic applications of type theory, Anil Gupta's work on principles of identity, and the generalized quantifier approach to the logical properties of determin...(展开全部)

Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino heist? Who was the richest person of all time? When was the first Monday? What were history's weirdest medical procedures that actually worked? How much horse manure was splattered on the streets of Tudor London? How fast was the medieval Chinese postal system? What did the Flint...(展开全部)

In the first edition of Law 101, Jay M. feinman offered a delightfully clear introduction to law, covering the main subjects found in the first year of law school and giving us a basic understanding of American legal tradition. This revised edition is up-to-date with Supreme Court cases through July 2005 and includes material on President's war powers, intellectual property, st...(展开全部)

Most of us know very little about the law. We pick up bits of information from television and newspaper accounts of current legal battles, and from bestselling novels and popular movies. But these pieces do not give us an accurate or complete picture. In Law 101, Jay M. Feinman offers a delightfully clear introduction to law, covering the main subjects found in the first ye...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·巴纳特（Christopher Barnatt），生于1967年。英国百年名校诺丁汉大学教授，20多年职业未来学家，*3D打印评论家。世界未来学会（World Future Society）会员，美国探索频道（Discovery Channel）Helium3Game.com网站制作顾问，时常出现在美国ABC新闻、英国天空新闻（Sky News）及众多其他BBC当地电台,投身英国Clore领袖培训计划（Clore Leadership Programme）多年。 从1995年出版《网络商业》（Cyber Business）率先预测互联网购物，到2013年《3D打印：下一次工业革命》（3D Printing: The Next Industrial Revolution）全球畅销发行，被翻译成了中文、日文和韩文等多国语言，克里斯托弗·巴纳特...(展开全部)

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers. All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and concrete. To understand world events, news organizations and other a...(展开全部)

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers. All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and concrete. To understand world events, news organizations and other a...(展开全部)

Award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press...(展开全部)

From the media to our mothers, others have taught us certain rules about intimacy and love. But what if these rules are wrong? Or even harmful? Sociologist and relationship expert Pepper Schwartz questions these assumptions, challenges our values, and breaks rules. She offers fresh alternatives and solutions that fit our needs as individuals-and shows that by letting go of tra...(展开全部)