With wit, humor, and decades of personal experiences from which to draw, Alan Dershowitz dispenses advice on career, law, and life in a book aimed at those just starting out in the legal profession. As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his leg...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation. Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads...(展开全部)

Mathematician Ian Stewart tells readers what he wishes he had known when he was a student. He takes up subjects ranging from the philosophical to the practical--what mathematics is and why it's worth doing, the relationship between logic and proof, the role of beauty in mathematical thinking, the future of mathematics, how to deal with the peculiarities of the mathematical com...(展开全部)

From the renowned mathematician and writer Ian Stewart, an insightful and lively exploration of why mathematics matters The first scientific entry in the acclaimed Art of Mentoring series from Basic Books, Letters to a Young Mathematician tells readers what Ian Stewart wishes he had known when he was a student and young faculty member. Subjects ranging from the philosophical...(展开全部)

Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe--Borges, Bierce, Celine, Cortazar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet--he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to ...(展开全部)

Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.

Mathematician Ian Stewart tells readers what he wishes he had known when he was a student. He takes up subjects ranging from the philosophical to the practical--what mathematics is and why it's worth doing, the relationship between logic and proof, the role of beauty in mathematical thinking, the future of mathematics, how to deal with the peculiarities of the mathematical com...(展开全部)

From the renowned mathematician and writer Ian Stewart, an insightful and lively exploration of why mathematics matters The first scientific entry in the acclaimed Art of Mentoring series from Basic Books, Letters to a Young Mathematician tells readers what Ian Stewart wishes he had known when he was a student and young faculty member. Subjects ranging from the philosophical...(展开全部)

作者： . 莱内•马利亚·里尔克（1875-1926） 德语诗人，也用法语写作 出生于布拉格，生活在慕尼黑和柏林，并曾旅居意大利、斯堪的纳维亚及法国 著作丰富，包括诗歌、小说、书简 代表作《杜伊诺哀歌》《致奥尔弗斯的十四行诗》《给青年诗人的信》等 因白血病逝世，葬于瑞士 . . 译者： . 冯至（1905-1993） 原名冯承植，字君培，河北涿县人 毕业于北京大学，在德国海德堡大学获哲学博士学位 曾任同济大学、西南联合大学及北京大学教授，讲授德语 著有诗集《昨日之歌》《十四行诗》等 曾当选瑞典皇家文学历史人物研究院外籍院士，并获歌德奖章 被鲁迅誉为“中国最为杰出的抒情诗人”