关于作者： （英）乔纳森•拉班（Jonathan Raban），1942生于英国诺福克郡，曾荣获1982年海涅曼文学奖、1981年及1991年的汤姆斯•库克旅行文学奖，以及华盛顿州政府文艺奖等。另有作品：《阿拉伯》(Arabia, 1979）、《旧日荣耀》（Old Glory, 1982）、《陌生之地》（Foreign Land, 1985）、《沿岸航行》（Coasting, 1986）、《为爱与财富》（For Love and Money, 1989）、《穷山恶水美国梦》（Bad Land, 1997）、《水路入朱诺》（Passage to Juneau, 1999）等书，并参与《牛津海事书》（Oxford Book of the Sea, 1992）的编辑工作。其中，《穷山恶水美国梦》一书除荣登《纽约时报》年度编辑选书外，还获得太平洋西北书商奖、...(展开全部)

Do survival instincts have anything to do with our architectural choices - our liking for a certain room, a special stairway, a plaza in a particular city? In this engaging study Grant Hildebrand discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appealing - and useful to survival - from ancient times to the present. Speculating ...(展开全部)

A yet-untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s. Wang Xiaobo’s Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo exami...(展开全部)

A yet-untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s. Wang Xiaobo’s Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo exami...(展开全部)

Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed. The book brings abstract ...(展开全部)

Dr. Eugenia Cheng is world-renowned as both a researcher in category theory and an expositor of mathematics. She has written several popular mathematics books including How to Bake Pi (2015), The Art of Logic in an Illogical World (2017), and two children's books. She also writes the 'Everyday Math' column for the Wall Street Journal. She is Scientist in Residence at the School...(展开全部)

Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed. The book brings abstract ...(展开全部)

Dr. Eugenia Cheng is world-renowned as both a researcher in category theory and an expositor of mathematics. She has written several popular mathematics books including How to Bake Pi (2015), The Art of Logic in an Illogical World (2017), and two children's books. She also writes the 'Everyday Math' column for the Wall Street Journal. She is Scientist in Residence at the School...(展开全部)

Essays trace the history of the detective story in America and England, looks at how mysteries are written, and provides a guide to detective characters and their creators

From the acclaimed author of The Drowning People (“A literary sensation” — The New York Times Book Review) and Natural Elements (“A magnum opus” — The New Yorker ), an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe’s belle époque, written in the grand tradition with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original. The novel opens in Amsterdam...(展开全部)