Joy is the all-purpose cookbook. There are other basic cookbooks on the market, and there are fine specialty cookbooks, but no other cookbook includes such a complete range of recipes in every category: everyday, classic, foreign and de luxe. Joy is the one indispensable cookbook, a boon to the beginner, treasure for the experienced cook, the foundation of many a happy kitch...(展开全部)

Seventy-five years ago, a St. Louis widow named Irma Rombauer took her life savings and self-published a book called The Joy of Cooking. Her daughter Marion tested recipes and made the illustrations, and they sold their mother-daughter project from Irma's apartment. Today, nine revisions later, the Joy of Cooking -- selected by The New York Public Library as one of the 150 ...(展开全部)

The Joy of Cooking grows with the times-it has a full roster of American and foreign dishes such as strudel, zabaglione, rijsttafel, and couscous, among many others. All the classic terms found on menus, such as Provençale, bonne femme, meuniére, and Florentine are not merely defined but fully explained so that readers can easily concoct the dish in their own home. ...(展开全部)

艾力克‧康弗（Alex Comfort） （1920～2000）出生於英國倫敦，是性學研究的先驅者之一，也是位多才多藝的作家，出版了五十多本著作以及多項科學論文，但最為人熟知的還是《性愛聖經》。 康弗一生涉獵極廣，除了身為醫師、生物學家，也是積極的社會評論家，積極的和平運動者，曾協助推動卸除核能活動，信奉無政府主義，還曾因此入獄，與哲學家羅素（Bertrand Russell）被關在同一間囚室。 康弗在醫學界的成就十分卓越，他是抗老化研究的先鋒，曾領導倫敦大學的老化現象研究、擔任史丹佛大學神經醫學部講師與洛杉磯大學神經精神醫學中心客座教授，也是美國精神醫學協會會員。康弗於2000年三月去世，享年八十。 蘇珊‧薇蓮（Susan Quilliam） 英國性學家、人際關係心理學家、兩性作家。並於網路、報章雜誌、廣播節目開設性愛諮商專欄。著有《新性愛聖經》、...(展开全部)

史蒂夫·斯托加茨（Steven Strogatz） 现为康奈尔大学应用数学系名誉教授，是一位颇有声望的教师，也是世界上观点被引用最多的数学家之一。他经常担任美国国家公共广播电台“广播实验室”栏目的嘉宾，还为《纽约时报》撰写“数学的要素”在线专栏，奠定了本书的写作基础。

DESCRIPTION Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that runs on both the JVM and anywhere that JavaScript runs. It combines the nice features of a scripting language with the powerful features of a production environment-features like persistent data structures and clean concurrency primitives that are needed for industrial-strength application development. The Joy of Clojure, Second Edi...(展开全部)

史蒂夫·斯托加茨（Steven Strogatz） 现为康奈尔大学应用数学系名誉教授，是一位颇有声望的教师，也是世界上观点被引用最多的数学家之一。他经常担任美国国家公共广播电台“广播实验室”栏目的嘉宾，还为《纽约时报》撰写“数学的要素”在线专栏，奠定了本书的写作基础。

This classic work is perhaps Bernstein's finest collection of conversations on the meaning and wonder of music. This book is a must for all music fans who wish to experience music more fully and deeply through one of the most inspired, and inspiring, music intellects of our time. Employing the creative device of "Imaginary Conversations" in the first section of his book, Bernst...(展开全部)