For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government has brought an end to its one-child policy. It may once have seemed a shortcut to riches, but it has had a profound effect on society in modern Chin...(展开全部)

Shanghai's illustrious history and phenomenal future is celebrated in this book, which examines the evolution of the city's architecture and urban form in order to contextualise the challenges facing the city today. The physical legacies that reflect Shanghai's uniqueness historically and contemporarily are examined chronologically using specific case studies of exemplary archi...(展开全部)

If the twentieth century saw the rise of “Big Science,” then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett’s new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as they recycled, repurposed, repaired, and reused their material possessions to learn about the natural world. Thrifty Science explo...(展开全部)

An award-winning Hong Kong–based architect with decades of experience designing buildings and planning cities in the People’s Republic of China takes us to the Pearl River delta and into the heart of China’s iconic Special Economic Zone, Shenzhen. Shenzhen is ground zero for the economic transformation China has seen in recent decades. In 1979, driven by China’s widespread pove...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 巴里 • 施特劳斯（Barry Strauss）是美国康奈尔大学历史与西洋古典学教授，古代军事史首屈一指的专家。他撰写或编辑了多部著作，如《萨拉米斯海战》《特洛伊战争》《斯巴达克斯起义》。 ………………………… ◎ 译者简介 苏前辉，男，1959年 7月生，毕业于西南师范大学外语系，获文学学士学位，长期从事英国语言与文学教学工作，研究方向为世界历史与文化，曾赴英国利兹大学英语学院访学，现供职于云南财经大学国际语言文化学院。

◎ 作者简介 巴里 • 施特劳斯（Barry Strauss）是美国康奈尔大学历史与西洋古典学教授，古代军事史首屈一指的专家。他撰写或编辑了多部著作，如《萨拉米斯海战》《特洛伊战争》《斯巴达克斯起义》。 ………………………… ◎ 译者简介 苏前辉，男，1959年 7月生，毕业于西南师范大学外语系，获文学学士学位，长期从事英国语言与文学教学工作，研究方向为世界历史与文化，曾赴英国利兹大学英语学院访学，现供职于云南财经大学国际语言文化学院。

Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, boo...(展开全部)

“an essential read” – TechCrunch In 2012, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was just a handful of geeks working out of a scrappy four-bedroom apartment in Beijing. Today, it is the world’s fastest-growing tech behemoth worth in excess of $100 billion, unrecognizable from its humble beginnings. Thousands of articles have been written about TikTok and its Chinese parent company B...(展开全部)

A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! In 19...(展开全部)

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi , or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than ...(展开全部)