New York Times bestselling author Edward Dolnick brings to light the true story of one of the most pivotal moments in modern intellectual history—when a group of strange, tormented geniuses invented science as we know it, and remade our understanding of the world. Dolnick’s earth-changing story of Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of modern science is at once an en...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Just in time for the new millennium comes this enormous, amply illustrated compilation of 23 essays on aspects of time from experts in various disciplines, among them history and historiography, music, geology, literary criticism, anthropology, religion and the history of engineering. The venerated art historian E.H. Gombrich contributes a compact "Histor...(展开全部)

克里斯滕•利平科特，格林威治皇家天文台台长，著有《天文学》等书。 翁贝托•艾柯，意大利小说家、哲学家、符号学家、美学家，博洛尼亚大学教授，著有《玫瑰的名字》《美的历史》等书。 贡布里希爵士，著名艺术史学者，著有《艺术的故事》等书。 其他作者有约翰•诺思教授（格罗宁根大学）、西尔克•阿克曼博士（大英博物馆）、安东尼•埃维尼教授（科尔盖特大学）、戴维•金教授（歌德大学科学史研究所）、迈克尔•洛伊教授（剑桥大学克莱尔学院）、乔伊•亨德利教授（牛津布鲁克斯大学）、约翰•麦克唐纳博士（努纳武特研究中心）、埃利•德克尔博士（乌特勒支大学）、乔纳森•贝茨（格林威治皇家天文台）、伊万•卡斯克尔博士（哈佛大学福格艺术博物馆）、洛恩•坎贝尔博士（英国国家美术馆）、约翰•豪斯教授（伦敦大学考陶尔德艺术学院）、马西娅•波因顿教授（曼彻斯特大学）、唐•埃兹教授（埃塞克斯大学）...(展开全部)

埃格尔博士是一位杰出的心理学家，也是奥斯维辛集中营的幸存者之一，现任美国加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校心理学教授，定期在国内外举行个人演讲。她还曾与退伍军人、美国海军陆战队战后创伤患者、身心受创的患者一起工作，帮助患者走出阴霾，选择并找到快乐。 埃格尔博士曾多次登上荧屏，参加奥普拉脱口秀、纪念奥斯维辛集中营解放节目以及荷兰国家电视台播出的大屠杀纪录片，与大家分享集中营创伤治愈，希望大家摆脱过去、拥抱自己，并通过回顾历史来守望和平。由于埃格尔博士的突出贡献，她被评为美国年度心理学突出教师，获得加州参议院颁发的人道主义奖。 这部书是埃格尔博士的处女作，她完整地回顾了在集中营的时光以及战后的生活，记录了自己在人生关口的每一个选择。拥抱人生，皆有可能。

From the author of the bestselling "The Man Who Knew Infinity" comes an unprecedented look at the traditional master-apprenticeship relationship alive today in modern science. Along the way, using interviews and anecdotes, Kanigel takes readers into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University and captures...(展开全部)

马库斯·鲁特埃勒,1999年3月加入美海军，2002年1月作为一名接受作战训练的海豹队员被授予三叉戟徽章，2003年4月加入海豹第五分队，被派往巴格达。2006年因作战英勇被小布什总统授予海军十字勋章。 帕崔克·罗宾逊，美国畅销书作家，尤擅长以美国海军为背景撰写小说，最著名的有《尼米兹级》、《基洛级》和《海狼》。由他执笔的桑迪·伍德沃德将军自传《一百天》成为全球畅销书。他与马库斯·鲁特埃勒合著了本书。

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written. While echoes of these stories can still be heard in the fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the eighties and nineties, The True Story of Ah Q has long b...(展开全部)

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written. While echoes of these stories can still be heard in the fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the eighties and nineties, The True Story of Ah Q has long b...(展开全部)

A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that mark...(展开全部)