Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.

Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher is a publishing first. This set couples a book containing the six easiest chapters from Richard P. Feynman’s landmark work, Lectures on Physics specifically designed for the general, non-scientist readerwith the actual recordings of the late, great physicist delivering the lectures on which the cha...(展开全部)

作者簡介 喬治．培瑞克Georges Perec 法國籍波蘭猶太裔作家，在巴黎出生，也在巴黎去世，一生大半的作品脫離不了巴黎城市的空間探索，如一九六五年出版的第一本小說《東西》（Les Choses）以及一九七八年的巨著《生活使用指南》（La vie mode d''emploi）皆以巴黎為據點。前者受到荷諾多文壇新人獎（Prix Renaudot）的肯定，後者完成於他創作的高峰，獲頒梅迪奇文學獎（Prix Médicis）。在他短暫的四十六年生命中，創作力驚人，所撰文類包括小說、詩、戲劇、評論散文和隨筆，每部作品在題材和寫法風格上皆各自不同。也曾參與廣播製作及電影編導。在臺灣目前已出版的中文譯作還有《W或童年回憶》（W ou le souvenir d''enfance）及《傭兵隊長》（Le Condottière）。 培瑞克曾將其創作分為四大同等...(展开全部)

"The Sociologically Examined Life" is a lively and concise text that uses analyses of everyday life to inspire students to think sociologically about society and about themselves as social actors.

Philip Bowring is an Asia-based journalist and is an expert on maritime history and the history of Southeast Asia.

This is a comprehensive account of the semantics and the implementation of the whole Lisp family of languages, namely Lisp, Scheme and related dialects. It describes 11 interpreters and 2 compilers, including very recent techniques of interpretation and compilation. The book is in two parts. The first starts from a simple evaluation function and enriches it with multiple name s...(展开全部)

Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading."As readers of her poems would expect, the sh...(展开全部)

A book about modern operating systems. Topics are broken down into three major conceptual pieces: Virtualization, Concurrency, and Persistence. Includes all major components of modern systems including scheduling, virtual memory management, disk subsystems and I/O, file systems, and even a short introduction to distributed systems.

OSTEP ("oh step"), or the "the comet book", represents the culmination of years of teaching intro to operating systems to both undergraduates and graduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences department for nearly 20 years.The book is organized around three concepts fundamental to OS construction: virtualization (of CPU and memory), concurrency (locks and c...(展开全部)