If words make up the stories and letters make up the words, then stories are made up of letters. In this menagerie we have stories made of words, made FOR all the letters. The most inventive and irresistible book of the year spans a mere 26 letters (don't they all!) and 112 pages. From an Astronaut who's afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a C...(展开全部)

How Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, the movie Groundhog Day, Harry Potter, and other familiar stories illustrate the concepts of computing. Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as...(展开全部)

A celebration of extraordinary teachers The boy's breakfast is ordinary, his walk to school is ordinary, even his thoughts are ordinary. But when he goes to his classroom and sits down at his desk, his day begins to change - a new teacher, Mr. Gee, bursts into the classroom with an extraordinary idea that challenges all the children to use their imagination. Suddenly an ordina...(展开全部)

Named one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 1998 by the Los Angeles Times, Once Upon a Number presents a surprising and humorous look at the similarities between narratives and numbers. "Both delightful and wise, this little book cries out to be kept close at hand, to be looked into from time to time, to be treasured as an old friend." -Los Angeles Times A "charmin...(展开全部)

This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Some are well-known, others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given artistic form through Kafka's unique perception of the world. (20050121)

Managing the Value Lodge in her hometown was not what Anna Gordon had in mind when she set out in the hospitality industry. But it's a safe choice for a woman whose childhood was anything but stable.

John Allen Paulos在威斯康星大学获得数学博士学位。现任坦普尔大学数学教授。他在数理逻辑、概率论和科学哲学方面写过许多论文，也是畅销书《数盲：数学文盲及其后果》《数学与幽默》《超越数》以及《一名数学家读报》的作者。他与夫人及两个孩子生活在费城。

On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open and in steps an injured stranger. In his arms is the drowned corpse of a child. Hours later, the dead girl stirs, takes and breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? And who does the little girl belong to? An exquisit...(展开全部)

On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can s...(展开全部)

著名电影导演，与法斯宾德、施隆多夫和赫尔措格并称为“德国新电影四杰”，是20世纪70年代“新德国电影运动”（New German Cinema） 的代表人物之一。 文德斯 1945年出生于德国杜塞尔多夫，1963-1965年在慕尼黑大学学习医学及哲学专业，1966年投考巴黎高等电影学院失败，用一年时间在巴黎电影资料馆观摩大量影片自学成才。1970年代，受当时美国公路电影的启发，以及出于少年时对西部片的喜爱，文德斯开始拍摄属于自己的欧洲式的公路电影，并由此奠定了他日后的创作方向，开始了他在光影世界里的漫漫流浪。在他的著名电影作品《德州巴黎》、《美国朋友》、《柏林苍穹下》、《直到世界末日》……中，流浪与疏离成为永远的主角，文德斯也借由这两个元素在银幕上创造出一个个充满诗意与虚空感的世界，赢得了评论家和观众们的喜爱，并多次荣获戛纳、柏林、威尼斯等国际电影节...(展开全部)