With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What d...(展开全部)

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What d...(展开全部)

In this classic book, a winsome, winning inchworm is proud of his ability to measure anything under the sun.

A small green inchworm is proud of his skill at measuring anything—a robin’s tail, a flamingo’s neck, a toucan’s beak. Then one day a nightingale threatens to eat him if he cannot measure his song. Children will enjoy the clever inchworm’s solution and delight in finding the tiny hero on every page. Every inch the classic, this was the first of Lionni’s books to win the Caldec...(展开全部)

"PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That" is the classic summary of and introduction to the achievements of Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory. This theory gives precise mathematical responses to questions like: What is a quantized field? And what are the physically indispensable attributes of a quantized field? Furthermore, Axiomatic Field Theory shows that a number of physically i...(展开全部)

"Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That" is Susie Hodges passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twomblys scribbled "Olympia" (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiats crude but spont...(展开全部)

Hemingway's Classic Novel About Smuggling, Intrigue, and Love To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and invol...(展开全部)

在我们眼里，美国高中生过的简直就是神仙般的生活：约会、跳舞、喝酒、上网、郊游等构成了他们的日常生活，就算是考试也就是排个Play、来个debate、交篇essay就万事大吉。考大学对他们来说更是小菜一碟，非常容易的一件事，考上了正常，考不上才是哑巴说话．铁树开花，百年难得遇一次。可事实到底是怎么样呢，特别是作为一名华裔少女，Katharine Wang又是如何在美利坚的国土上，在一群白皮肤、黄头发的美国人中学习和生活的呢？ 18岁的Katharine Wang（王文思）以她自己的高中生活为蓝本．用地道而又时尚的美语向你讲述了她和她的几位好朋友——活泼的Sunny、爱学习的Erin、父母离异的Camden、家境优越的Shawn和后来加入他们的中国男孩Christopher——在Jones学校的四年高中生活：面试时的忐忑不安、竞选年级长成功后的喜悦、学校...(展开全部)

Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without ...(展开全部)

I'm alive when I should be dead. In another movie, I missed the sliding door and departed this wondrous life long ago. Like so many others, I've had to learn to live not knowing if I have a tomorrow, because, statistically, I shouldn't have. At the age of 35, I was blindsided by incurable bowel cancer - I was given a less than 8% chance of surviving five years. More than five y...(展开全部)