Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain-first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.

Visual Differential Geometry and Forms fulfills two principal goals. In the first four acts, Tristan Needham puts the geometry back into differential geometry. Using 235 hand-drawn diagrams, Needham deploys Newton’s geometrical methods to provide geometrical explanations of the classical results. In the fifth act, he offers the first undergraduate introduction to differential f...(展开全部)

Visual Differential Geometry and Forms fulfills two principal goals. In the first four acts, Tristan Needham puts the geometry back into differential geometry. Using 235 hand-drawn diagrams, Needham deploys Newton’s geometrical methods to provide geometrical explanations of the classical results. In the fifth act, he offers the first undergraduate introduction to differential f...(展开全部)

Visual Differential Geometry and Forms fulfills two principal goals. In the first four acts, Tristan Needham puts the geometry back into differential geometry. Using 235 hand-drawn diagrams, Needham deploys Newton’s geometrical methods to provide geometrical explanations of the classical results. In the fifth act, he offers the first undergraduate introduction to differential f...(展开全部)

阿绍卡·莫迪，普林斯顿大学伍德罗·威尔逊公共与国际事务学院教授（Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor）。此前，他曾担任国际货币基金组织（IMF）研究部和欧洲部的代理主任。他也在世界银行、宾夕法尼亚大学和贝尔实验室工作过。莫迪在有关发展和金融项目及政策方面，为世界多个国家的政府提供建言，同时也在多个领域发表过政策和学术论文。 译者：王剑鹰，美国密苏里大学政治学博士。在中西方接受了完整而扎实的社会科学训练，主要从事学术翻译及写作。在法学、社会学及政治学等领域均有作品。

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick, an Indie Next Pick, and a LibraryReads Pick • Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by The Washington Post, Bustle, Goodreads, and She Reads Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day—a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever. Where ...(展开全部)

In Einstein in Love , Dennis Overbye has written the first profile of the great scientist to focus exclusively on his early adulthood, when his major discoveries were made. It reveals Einstein to be very much a young man of his time-draft dodger, self-styled bohemian, poet, violinist, and cocky, charismatic genius who left personal and professional chaos in his wake. Drawing up...(展开全部)

丹尼斯·奥弗比，美国知名科普作家，《纽约时报》科学编辑，《时代》、《纽约时代杂志》科学作家，毕业于美国麻省理工学院物理系。他的第一本书《环宇孤心》曾入围“美国国家书评人奖”和“《洛杉矶时报》科学图书奖”，并获得“美国物理科学学会作品奖”。本书是奥弗比的最新力作。

桑顿·怀尔德（Thornton Wilder，1897年4月17日－1975年12月7日）出生于美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊，为美国小说家和剧作家，是唯一的一位用文学作品和戏剧作品获得双普利策奖的人。 1897年，怀尔德出生于美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊，父亲阿莫斯·帕克·怀尔德，是一位美国外交官，母亲伊莎贝拉·怀尔德·尼文。怀尔德的父亲被分配到清朝工作，任职美国驻香港与上海总领事，因此他的童年在清朝度过。1915，怀尔德从柏克莱高中毕业，1917，他考入耶鲁大学。第一次世界大战爆发后，怀尔德参加了美国军队，在军队中中服役8个月。1926年，怀尔德获得普林斯顿大学颁发的法国文学硕士学位，同年发表了他的处女作小说《奥秘》。

This beautiful new edition features an eye-opening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation...(展开全部)