Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years’ absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of mon...(展开全部)

Trees are one of the most ubiquitous religious symbols across the world. From ancient Sumer to Christianity, from the Maya civilization to Buddhism, there’s hardly a human society over the ages that hasn’t associated trees with some sort of celestial and religious power. Due to its expressive quality and natural branching scheme, trees have also become important communication t...(展开全部)

Trees are one of the most ubiquitous religious symbols across the world. From ancient Sumer to Christianity, from the Maya civilization to Buddhism, there’s hardly a human society over the ages that hasn’t associated trees with some sort of celestial and religious power. Due to its expressive quality and natural branching scheme, trees have also become important communication t...(展开全部)

弗·卡约里，美国著名数学家和科学史家，1859年生于瑞士，1875年回到美国，1930年卒于美国。他是美国数学学会、科学发展协会、科学史学会会员，还是国际科学史学会会员，著有《美国数学教学与数学史》、《数学史》、《北美洲和南美洲早期数学教学》、《数学符号史》等著作。

Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"-educated Navajo. As they experience all of the joys and uncertainties of first love, the couple must face a changi...(展开全部)

作者简介： 贾志扬（John W. Chaffee） 美国纽约州立大学宾汉姆顿分校（Binghamton University）历史系教授，宋史专家。1979年获美国芝加哥大学博士学位。著有《天潢贵胄：宋代宗室史》《棘闱：宋代科举与社会》等，主编《剑桥中国宋代史》（下卷）。 译者简介： 赵冬梅 北京大学历史系教授、博士研究生导师，曾任德国维尔茨堡大学汉学系、法国巴黎社会科学高等研究院客座教授。致力于宋代制度、政治文化和历史人物传记的研究、写作和传播，著有《法度与人心：帝制时代人与制度的互动》《人间烟火：掩埋在历史里的日常与人生》《大宋之变：1063—1086》《文武之间：北宋武选官研究》等。

The stories behind drug discovery are fascinating, full of human and scientific interest. This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as well as the human frailty associated with them. History is replete with examples of breakthrough medicines that have saved millions of lives. Ether as an anesthetic by Morton; penici...(展开全部)