Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile publi...(展开全部)

Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile publi...(展开全部)

In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said "Yes" and then suddenly, walked out of his life and made Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road travelling to diamond mines in Africa, Canada, India, Brazil, and Russia to discover the true worth of this s...(展开全部)

This book focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorisation drills. Gatto's earlier book, "Dumbing Us Down", put that now-famous expression of the title into common use worldwide. This book promises to add another chilling metaphor to the brief against scho...(展开全部)

This book focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorisation drills. Gatto's earlier book, "Dumbing Us Down", put that now-famous expression of the title into common use worldwide. This book promises to add another chilling metaphor to the brief against scho...(展开全部)

Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, Arabia is Levison Wood's account of his most complex expedition yet: circumnavigating the Arabian Peninsula. Travelling through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on earth, he seeks to challenge our perceptions of an often misunderstood part of the world, seeing how ...(展开全部)

During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.Coral Reefs by Jason Chin plunges readers into the ocean with inc...(展开全部)

作者簡介 凱瑟琳•皮特拉斯 Kathryn Petras 羅斯•皮特拉斯 Ross Petras 凱瑟琳與羅斯是一對兄妹寫作搭檔，其作品銷售超過五百三十萬本，包括《紐約時報》暢銷書「單字迷」書籍《你唸錯了》（You’re Saying It Wrong.）。他們一同在全國公共廣播電台（NPR的KMUW）主持同名播客，節目主題與字彙、文法和字源學有關。他們從孩童時期在埃及開羅時即開始合作，如今雖然一個在西班牙格拉納達，一個在加拿大多倫多，仍一同開心工作……儘管偶爾會有時差的問題。 譯者簡介 林楸燕 英美文學博士，現職為大學教授，兼職翻譯。學術專長為中世紀英國歷史與文學、文藝復興時期劇作。著有《關於人生，莎士比亞的神回覆》；譯作《文藝復興並不美》、《教養是一種可怕的發明》、《讓我們假裝沒發生過！》、《我們的婚姻診斷書：百年好合的八堂基本課》以及...(展开全部)

托尼·海依 微软研究院副总裁，物理学家，计算机领域知名学者。曾出版多部学术专著，累计发表论文150多篇，在专业领域有较强的学术影响力。热衷于计算机科普事业，曾受理查德·费曼委托，为其整理计算机系列讲座文稿，结集出版。个人畅销科普作品包括《新量子宇宙》《爱因斯坦的镜子》《第四范式》等。 奎利·帕佩 英国南安普顿大学信息技术创新中心高级研究员，主要研究方向为高性能计算、事件模拟和数值算法。