NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • One of USA Today’s top 10 books of the year Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Poss...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • One of USA Today’s top 10 books of the year Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Poss...(展开全部)

Brief in the way a razor’s slice is brief, remarkable essays by a peerless stylist New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar...(展开全部)

Given the highly coercive and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, when the tremendous pressures exerted by capital on contemporary life produce an aggressively normative ‘official reality’, the question of the construction of other possible worlds is crucial and perhaps more urgent than ever. This collection brings together different perspectives from the fields ...(展开全部)

Even the most enthusiastic of maths students probably at one time wondered when exactly it would all prove useful in ‘real life’. Well, maths reaches so far and wide through our world that, love it or hate it, we’re all doing maths almost every minute of every day. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee go in search of the perfect labyrinth, journey back to the second century in pur...(展开全部)

Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with ph...(展开全部)

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what is the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? This question has preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there was a time, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when scientists and mathematicians felt they could provide the a...(展开全部)

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what "is" the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? Is it the world that operates the most efficiently? Or the one in which most people are comfortable and content? Questions such as these have preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there...(展开全部)

鄔斯宾斯基简介 彼得·鄔斯宾斯基(PeterD.Ouspensky：一八七八年--一九四七年)出生於莫斯科，并在那里长大。他能够记得两岁以前的事情，也曾写下一些这类记忆的片段，由於这些片段的内容与奇特感觉连结在一起，常常同时出现在脑海，因而决定了他一生的主要方向。 鄔氏是个极有天赋的孩子，六岁左右就已阅读成人的书籍；十二岁以前已探究过诗、画和自然科学。在他十几岁的时候，便研究数学、生物学和心理学，尤其对第四度空间的观念特别感兴趣。 对一个曾体验过秩序井然且和谐的宇宙是真实存在的人来说，那些為十岁至十八岁的男生所安排的古典课程，是无法令他满意的。因此他决定不直接上大学，而在俄国、欧洲和东方各地游歷，找一份报社的工作做。二十七岁时，他根据「永恆回归」的观念写了一本小说，名叫《伊凡·欧索金的奇异人生》。这本书一九一五年才在俄国出版，且到了一九四七年才有英译...(展开全部)