马丁·加德纳（Martin Gardner，1914年10月21日—2010年05月22日），美国数学家和著名的数学科普作家。1936年毕业于芝加哥大学，学的专业是哲学。毕业后先当《民友报》记者，后来在芝加哥大学公众关系部工作。第二次世界大战爆发后，他在美国海军中担任随军记者，曾到过印度、菲律宾、东南亚、土耳其与中、近东许多国家和地区，见闻甚广。战后，他开始了自由撰稿人的生涯。据不完全统计，已写了五十本以上的书。曾多次获得过重奖。他的肖像曾在《生活》杂志及《新利周报》上刊登过。

In "The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix", Martin Gardner introduces us to this extraordinary man, Dr. Irving Joshua Matrix. Believed by many to be the greatest numerologist who ever lived, Dr. Matrix claims to be a reincarnation of Pythagoras. He was, however, completely unknown to the scientific community until Gardner wrote about him in "Scientific American" in 1960.That first re...(展开全部)

马丁·加德纳（Martin Gardner，1914年10月21日—2010年05月22日），美国数学家和著名的数学科普作家。1936年毕业于芝加哥大学，学的专业是哲学。毕业后先当《民友报》记者，后来在芝加哥大学公众关系部工作。第二次世界大战爆发后，他在美国海军中担任随军记者，曾到过印度、菲律宾、东南亚、土耳其与中、近东许多国家和地区，见闻甚广。战后，他开始了自由撰稿人的生涯。据不完全统计，已写了五十本以上的书。曾多次获得过重奖。他的肖像曾在《生活》杂志及《新利周报》上刊登过。

Demonstrating world-building finesse, Robin Hobb begins the climatic story of a seafaring clan and its tangled destiny.

《魔法活船》英国版 Gripping first instalment of a new series from the author of The Farseer Trilogy. Wizardwood -- a sentient wood. The most precious commodity in the world. Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds. But how can one trade with the Rain River Traders when only a liveship, fashioned from wizardwood, can negotiate the perilous waters of the R...(展开全部)

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to ...(展开全部)

Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The a...(展开全部)

Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present. Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for opening...(展开全部)

Of all the animals with which we share the planet, few have captured people's imaginations as thoroughly, or enchantingly, as birds. Symbols of freedom but also of captivity, good fortune but also ill omen, the human spirit and the unknowable animalbirds have delighted and haunted us for millennia.