Reading Sideways explores the pivotal role that various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality in works of modern American literature.

Describing himself as a "visual jackdaw", master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps that take his fancy. This work distils this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind. Loosely arranged in 72 "chapters", the book explores the workings of the eye, the hand and the brain.

Describing himself as a "visual jackdaw", master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps that take his fancy. This work distils this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind. Loosely arranged in 72 "chapters", the book explores the workings of the eye, the hand and the brain.

What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism’s authority to answer this question, English professors themselves are defining new alternatives to close reading and to interpretation more generally. Further Reading brings together thirty commissioned essays drawing on approaches as different as formalism, historicism, neuro...(展开全部)

2004年美国Jolt大奖入围作品。 如果你是个程序员的话，那么你就需要本书。可能导致我们阅读代码的原因是：我们不得不去修复它其中所包含的错误；或是对它进行遍查（inspect）；或者是改善它。我们阅读代码的方式可能和工程师检查机械的方式一样——找出它的工作原理。或者我们阅读代码的目的是对代码进行清理——找出其中可以被重用的部分。阅读代码有着它自身的技巧，并需要我们能够在重要场合对采用何种技术有着判断能力。在这本不可或缺的书中，Diomidis Spinellis使用了超过600个来自现实世界中的例子来向我们展示如何鉴别好的（或坏的）代码：如何去阅读它，从中去找寻什么，以及如何利用这种技巧来提升我们自身编写的代码的品质。记住这个事实：如果我们养成了阅读好代码的习惯，我们就能写出更高品质的代码。

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification. Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable...(展开全部)

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have ...(展开全部)

A spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative Realists, Historical Materialists and even ‘liberal Hegelians’.Which of these groups has not been denounced as metaphysically Hegelian by its opponents? And...(展开全部)

亨利•威尔曼（Henry Wellman） ●世界知名发展心理学家，国际公认的儿童心智理论权威，美国认知发展协会第五任主席。 ●密歇根大学心理学教授、人类成长与发展研究中心教授，拥有自己的心理学实验室，专精于认知心理学，尤其是儿童心智理论的研究。 ●曾发表100多篇研究论文，出版3本经典著作，囊括美国心理学领域6项大奖，包括美国心理学会发展心理学导师奖、美国心理学会斯坦利•霍尔奖（G. Stanley Hall Award）、美国国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所颁发的杰出贡献奖等。