Timothy Brook’s award-winning Vermeer’s Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer’s paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old. In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxf...(展开全部)

卜正民（Timothy Brook），加拿大著名汉学家。曾任多伦多大学、斯坦福大学、牛津大学等校教授，现为加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院院长、历史教授。卜正民还是美国明史学会（Society of Ming Studies）半年期刊《明史研究》（Ming Studies）编委会成员。自2008年起，卜正民成为哈佛大学六卷本《中华帝国史》的主编。卜正民曾于1975年秋进入复旦大学，师从文学批评史学者李庆甲教授学习中国古代文学，1977年，他在李约瑟的安排下参与了《中国的科学与文明》第七分册的编写。 卜正民著述颇丰且广受好评，其作品《纵乐的困惑：明代的商业与文化》（The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China）曾获美国亚洲研究学会颁发的列文森奖和加拿大历史学会每五年评选一次...(展开全部)

This rollicking page-turner with a cast of real and imagined literary characters and cunning intertwined plots stars a skeptical H.G. Wells as a time-traveling investigator. Set in Victorian London, The Map of Time boasts a triple-play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H.G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel. Now, he must save the ...(展开全部)

In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against the influence of precursor poems. Influence, as Bloom conceive...(展开全部)

In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against the influence of precursor poems. Influence, as Bloom conceive...(展开全部)

The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Author Michael Wilkinson has trained thousands of managers, mediators, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniqu...(展开全部)

弗朗西斯卡•海格（Francesca Haig），作家，诗人。墨尔本大学博士毕业，主要研究领域是灾难文学，现任英国切斯特大学高级讲师，好莱坞知名经纪公司UTA签约作家。她曾在澳洲与英国的文学刊物上发表多篇诗作，并于2006年出版首部个人诗集《生命之水》，2010年获英国 霍桑登（Hawthornden）奖学金。 《骸骨迷宫》是海格的首部科幻系列小说《烈火的召唤》的第二本。全书以一对双胞胎兄妹为核心，讲述了他们分别所处的敌对阵营，试图重建末日后的世界以及为了破除同生共死的命运、重获自由而斗争的故事。作者以高度丰满的叙事架构和诗意的语言，构建了一个黑暗与希望交织的世界，引领读者跟随着勇敢的主人公一路冒险，破除桎梏，拯救他们所爱。作品充满了迷人的复杂性，隐秘而深刻的氛围贯穿始终，引人入胜。 该系列的第三本《永生船》预计于2017年夏天上市。

弗朗西斯卡•海格（Francesca Haig），作家，诗人。墨尔本大学博士毕业，主要研究领域是灾难文学，现任英国切斯特大学高级讲师，好莱坞知名经纪公司UTA签约作家。她曾在澳洲与英国的文学刊物上发表多篇诗作，并于2006年出版首部个人诗集《生命之水》，2010年获英国 霍桑登（Hawthornden）奖学金。 《骸骨迷宫》是海格的首部科幻系列小说《烈火的召唤》的第二本。全书以一对双胞胎兄妹为核心，讲述了他们分别所处的敌对阵营，试图重建末日后的世界以及为了破除同生共死的命运、重获自由而斗争的故事。作者以高度丰满的叙事架构和诗意的语言，构建了一个黑暗与希望交织的世界，引领读者跟随着勇敢的主人公一路冒险，破除桎梏，拯救他们所爱。作品充满了迷人的复杂性，隐秘而深刻的氛围贯穿始终，引人入胜。 该系列的第三本《永生船》预计于2017年夏天上市。

The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, i...(展开全部)