杰里米•西尔曼（Jeremy Silman）1954年出生于美国德克萨斯州，1988年成为国际象棋国际大师，曾夺得美国公开赛冠军，并曾经担任美国国家青年国际象棋队的教练。2001年，西尔曼还担任了《哈利波特与魔法石》中的国际象棋对战设计。 曾分别担任北京大学学生国际象棋协会副会长和团支书的羽阳、林诗敏、王思雨与张乃卿等4位译者均来自北大学生国象社团。该社团成立25年来，始终积极弘扬国象文化，促进国际交流，推动创建北大国象队和国象课程，在校内外推广国象运动；在社团指导教师李晓鹏的长期带领下，北大国际象棋综合发展体系已居全球大学领先地位，曾获世界棋王卡尔森盛赞。

The Book Your Children Don’t Want You to Read This revised and updated edition of How to Con Your Kid is the most useful (and sneakiest) parenting manual you’ll ever purchase. Here are hundreds of tips, techniques, and simple scams for getting your child to do exactly what you want—at mealtime, bedtime, bathtime, and beyond. You’ll learn how to: • Con your kid into eatin...(展开全部)

'...visually stunning and mentally stimulating' - "Scientific American". 'the author of "What Painting Is" (1998) has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire us 'to learn to see anything.' It's a tall order, to be sure, but one that the author pulls off admirably!. "How to Use Your Eyes" is a wondrous visual tour that Elkins hopes wi...(展开全部)

I hope this book will inspire every reader to stop and consider things that are...so clearly meaningless that they never seemed worth a second thought.... Grass, the night sky, a postage stamp, a crack in the sidewalk, a shoulder. Ordinary objects of everyday life. But when we look at them--really look at them--what do we see? In the tradition of John Berger's bestselli...(展开全部)

A wickedly dark romp about class, family, love... and murder. The journalist and author of Jog On delivers a scorchingly black satire of family dysfunction and the media's obsession with murder, as the engaging anti-hero Grace reveals the full extent of her gleeful homicidal spree.

It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her...(展开全部)