"This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much. . . My son broke into your home recently while you were out." In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well--learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? Aft...(展开全部)

'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is' - John von Neumann. Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining little book answers one hundred essential questions about existence. It unravels the knotty, clarifie...(展开全部)

A missing girl, a hidden body, a decades-long cover-up, and old sins cast in new light: the classic procedural meets Scandinavian atmosphere in this rich, character-driven mystery, awarded Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, that heralds the American debut of a supremely skilled international writer. It’s been more than twenty years since Olof Hagström left home. Returning to...(展开全部)

A missing girl, a hidden body, a decades-long cover-up, and old sins cast in new light: the classic procedural meets Scandinavian atmosphere in this rich, character-driven mystery, awarded Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, that heralds the American debut of a supremely skilled international writer. It’s been more than twenty years since Olof Hagström left home. Returning to...(展开全部)

罗贝尔·潘热 著 “新小说派”代表作家，1919年生于日内瓦， 在家中度过美妙的童年。大学研究古典作品，后研究法律并拿到律师证。1939年被动员入伍服役六年。1946年定居巴黎，先是作画，而后决定重拾文学。1951年出版短篇小说集《丰托内与阿伽帕之间》后专心写作，作品有大量的小说、剧作和广播。 李建新 译 湖南师范大学法语副教授，译有《我的大公寓》《电视》《旅行者》《玛丽的真相》等作品。

罗贝尔·潘热 著 “新小说派”代表作家，1919年生于日内瓦， 在家中度过美妙的童年。大学研究古典作品，后研究法律并拿到律师证。1939年被动员入伍服役六年。1946年定居巴黎，先是作画，而后决定重拾文学。1951年出版短篇小说集《丰托内与阿伽帕之间》后专心写作，作品有大量的小说、剧作和广播。 李建新 译 湖南师范大学法语副教授，译有《我的大公寓》《电视》《旅行者》《玛丽的真相》等作品。

Have you ever considered why you always get stuck in the longest line? Why two s company but three s a crowd? Or why there are six degrees of separation instead of seven? In this hugely informative and endlessly entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most baffling of everyday phenomena and with simple math, lucid explanations, and illustrations explains why they work the w...(展开全部)

Mathematics can reveal and illuminate things about the complex world we live in that can t be found any other way. In this hugely informative and entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most perplexing of everyday phenomena from the odds of winning the lottery and the method of determining batting averages to the shapes of roller coasters and the reasoning behind the faires...(展开全部)

A Barronâ‘’s best-seller for more than four decades, the brand-new sixth edition of 1100 Words You Need to Know has been expanded and updated with more-- Word lists and definitions Analogy exercises Words-in-context exercises All new words for students to learn are placed in the context of sentences that have been selected from well-known novels, plays, poems, newspaper editori...(展开全部)