Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, do...(展开全部)

Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life is our finest, most important creation to date. It’s also the best thing we’ve ever written about Minimalism and will likely serve as the cornerstone to our work for years to come. It took us a year to write this book—a year of creating the best material possible and finding ways to relate it back to our lives so you would have practical ways ...(展开全部)

An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade’s ten most influential books there, To Live tells the epic story of one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels...(展开全部)

洛兰·达斯顿是马克斯·普朗克科学史研究所荣誉院长。她的作品涉猎科学史的诸多话题，包括概率统计史、早期现代科学奇迹、科学事实的出现、科学模型、科学探究的对象、自然的道德权威和科学客观性的历史。近期出版书籍包括《反自然》（Gegen die Natur，2018；英文版，Against Nature, 2019），《档案馆里的科学》（Science in the Archives，2017）和《理性是如何疯掉的》（2014）。 达斯顿目前的研究方向包括规则史、现代性在科学史上的意义、19世纪末以来科学领域的国际治理，以及道德和自然秩序之间的关系。达斯顿获得过辉瑞奖（1989年，《启蒙时期的古代概率论》）和萨顿科学史学会奖章、巴伐利亚科学院谢林奖、格丁根科学院的利钦伯格奖章、比勒费尔德大学卢曼奖，以及普林斯顿大学和希伯来大学荣誉博士学位。2018年，她获得...(展开全部)

Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Every session, every gig, every day, recording engineers strive to make the most of their audio signal processing devices. EQ, Compression, Delay, Distortion, Reverb and all those other FX are the well-worn tools of the audio trade. Recording and mixing, live and in the studio, engineers must thoroughly master these devices to stay competitive sonically. Its not enough ...(展开全部)

An engaging guide to how Stoicism--the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius--can provide lessons for living in the modern world Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philoso...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

瓦连京·格里戈里耶维奇·拉斯普京（1937~），俄罗斯作家。生于西伯利亚。大学毕业后担任报社编辑。1961年开始发表作品，1967年他的成名作《为玛丽娅借钱》问世，1974年发表长篇小说《活下去，并且要记住》，获1997年苏联国家奖金。此外，《最后的期限》（1970）、《别了，马焦拉》（1976）等作品吼曾引起评论界的普遍关注。1985年出版的小说《火灾》于次年再次荣获苏联国家奖金，从而确立了他在俄罗斯文学中的重要地位，享誉世界文坛。

An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting. --Time Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysteri...(展开全部)