The fascinating story of how Unix began and how it took over the world. Brian Kernighan was a member of the original group of Unix developers, the creator of several fundamental Unix programs, and the co-author of classic books like "The C Programming Language" and "The Unix Programming Environment."

The fascinating story of how Unix began and how it took over the world. Brian Kernighan was a member of the original group of Unix developers, the creator of several fundamental Unix programs, and the co-author of classic books like "The C Programming Language" and "The Unix Programming Environment."

Dancing in the Streets explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Drawing on a wealth of history and anthropology, Barbara Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. From the earli...(展开全部)

芭芭拉·艾伦瑞克（Barbara Ehrenreich），美国畅销书女作家。 1941年生，洛克菲勒大学细胞生物学博士，女性主义者、民主社会主义者和政治活动家。专栏作家，作品常出现在《哈泼》《国家》《新共和》等重要刊物中。 她出身底层，父亲是矿工，前夫是卡车司机，因此特 别 关注美国底层社会的生活。至今已出版21本著作，代表作有《纽约时报》畅销榜作品《M型社会白领的新试炼》《街头的狂欢》《我在底层的生活》《失控的正向思考》等。

Dancing in the Streets explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Drawing on a wealth of history and anthropology, Barbara Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. From the earli...(展开全部)

芭芭拉·艾伦瑞克（Barbara Ehrenreich），美国畅销书女作家。 1941年生，洛克菲勒大学细胞生物学博士，女性主义者、民主社会主义者和政治活动家。专栏作家，作品常出现在《哈泼》《国家》《新共和》等重要刊物中。 她出身底层，父亲是矿工，前夫是卡车司机，因此特 别 关注美国底层社会的生活。至今已出版21本著作，代表作有《纽约时报》畅销榜作品《M型社会白领的新试炼》《街头的狂欢》《我在底层的生活》《失控的正向思考》等。

Horizon-expanding tales of how translators altered the course of world events 'Full of lively stories ... leaves the reader with an awed respect for the translator's task' Economist Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where sno...(展开全部)

Product Description Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through the composer's character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. A classic in German from 1960, MAHLER is presented here in a translation that captures the stylistic brilliance of the or...(展开全部)

安德鲁·莫顿（Andrew Morton） 知名传记作家。他撰写过多部名人传记，其中《戴安娜：她的真实故事》蝉联畅销书榜58周，被翻译为35种语言，并引发了电影、纪录片和王室评论的热潮。此后，莫顿继续撰写了麦当娜、贝克汉姆与维多利亚、汤姆·克鲁斯、安吉丽娜·朱莉等众多名人的传记，并荣登《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》上畅销书榜。