杰夫•戴尔，1958年出生于英国切尔滕纳姆, 被《每日电讯报》称为“很可能是当今最好的英国作家。”他的写作风格极其独特，涉及音乐、摄影、电影等多个领域，并将小说、游记、传记、评论、回忆录等体裁融为一体，形成了奇异而迷人的“杰夫•戴尔文体”。其主要作品包括小说《寻找马洛里》、《杰夫在威尼斯，死亡在瓦拉纳西》，跨文体作品《然而，很美：爵士乐之书》（获得1992年毛姆文学奖）、《一怒之下：与D.H.劳伦斯搏斗》（入围美国国家图书评论奖）、《懒人瑜伽》（获得2004年W.H.史密斯最佳旅行书籍奖）、《此刻》（获得国际摄影中心摄影写作奖）等。2005年入选英国皇家文学学会，2006年获得由美国艺术文学院颁发的E.M.福斯特奖。他与妻子现居伦敦。

This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In mordantly funny and thought-provoking prose, the author of Out of Sheer Rage describes a life most of us would love to live—and how that life frustrates and aggravates him. As he travels from Amsterdam to Cambodia, Rome to Indonesia, Libya to Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert, Dy...(展开全部)

'The possibility of being a victim of a crime is ever present on my mind; thinking about it as natural as breathing' - 40-year-old woman. This is a compelling analysis of how women in the United States perceive the threat of crime in their everyday lives and how that perception controls their behavior. Esther Madriz draws on focus groups and in-depth interviews to show the dama...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author, psychologist, and leadership expert Henry Cloud equips us to understand and manage trust for successful relationships through five foundational aspects. Trust is the fuel for all of life. We are wired biologically, neurologically, emotionally, spiritually, and psychologically to trust. Trust is the currency that drives every relationship, begi...(展开全部)

Explores the transformation humans undergo when they do metaphysics. Author Michael Gelven suggests that thinking metaphysically transforms us, and consequently the nature of metaphysics it self is transformational, Using concrete existential phenomena such as the learning process, how children mature into adults, and how fear can develop into courage, he establishes an underst...(展开全部)

Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" is widely regarded as the most important feminist film of that...(展开全部)

Proofs play a central role in advanced mathematics and theoretical computer science, and this bestselling texts' third edition will help students transition from solving problems to proving theorems by teaching them the techniques needed to read and write proofs, with a new chapter on number theory and 150+ new exercises.

Proofs play a central role in advanced mathematics and theoretical computer science, and this bestselling texts' third edition will help students transition from solving problems to proving theorems by teaching them the techniques needed to read and write proofs, with a new chapter on number theory and 150+ new exercises.

Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordina...(展开全部)

Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordina...(展开全部)