This is a comprehensive account of the semantics and the implementation of the whole Lisp family of languages, namely Lisp, Scheme and related dialects. It describes 11 interpreters and 2 compilers, including very recent techniques of interpretation and compilation. The book is in two parts. The first starts from a simple evaluation function and enriches it with multiple name s...(展开全部)

This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts. It then analyzes texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine and life sciences, produced in various parts of the globe and in different time periods, and examines the reasons behind the segmentation of texts and the consequences of such textual divisio...(展开全部)

"The Sociologically Examined Life" is a lively and concise text that uses analyses of everyday life to inspire students to think sociologically about society and about themselves as social actors.

细数着身边的时装品牌：PRADA、GUCCI、CHANEL、LV、BCBG…… 著名时尚专栏作家、电影编剧周周敏锐地追寻时尚品牌，幽默地记录下他对时尚生活的感受…… 周周是一个国际品牌时装消费者，本书介绍了他多年来的时尚体验。尽管全世界大多数的普通人一辈子的生活都跟世界顶级品牌无关，这些与你无关的东西还是统治着你的品味，不因你的忽视而消亡，因为少部分掌握权力的人离不开世界顶级品。 作者用他对时尚的真诚态度，书写你身边的时尚， 他们正在改变着一个时代的品味，包括服装的品味。

Jackson's Life in Classrooms (1990) is a reprint of a 1968 version with the addition of a new introduction. The introduction is basically a reflection of how the author, who had previously been a quantitative scientist, felt that there was something missing in the information provided by this research and turned to ethnography and more qualitative research.

This is the first book to consider John Dewey's early philosophy on its own terms and to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psych

This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up the...(展开全部)

Life in the Universe takes non-science majors on a journey through the solar system and beyond, using a rigorous yet accessible introduction to astronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology to explain natural phenomena and explore unanswered scientific questions. The Second Edition has been thoroughly revised to include updated scientific discoveries, optional quantitative coverag...(展开全部)