It's 1979, Hugh Thomson is eighteen, far from home, with time to kill - and on his way to Mexico. When a stranger tells him there's money to be made by driving a car over the US border to sell on the black market in Central America, Hugh decides to give it a go. Throwing himself on the mercy of Mexicans he meets or crashes into, Hugh and his Oldsmobile 98 journey through the re...(展开全部)

主编简介： 罗新，1963年生于湖北，北京大学中国古代史研究中心暨历史学系教授，专业研究方向为魏晋南北朝史和中国古代民族史。专业代表作《中古北族名号研究》（2009）、《黑毡上的北魏皇帝》（2014），著有旅行文学作品《从大都到上都——在古道上重新发现中国》（2018）。 作者简介： 休·汤姆森（Hugh Thomson），英国探险家和旅行作家，英国皇家地理学会会员。他曾几次前往南美探寻印加遗迹。著有《白石》（The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland）、《胭脂红》（Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru）、《龙舌兰油：迷失墨西哥》等。作为纪录片制作人，他获得了许多奖项，作品包括与威廉·达尔林普合作的《印度之旅》（Indian Journey...(展开全部)

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the text of two of Schrodinger's most famous lecture series. 'Nature and the Greeks' offers a comprehensive...(展开全部)

Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral ...(展开全部)

影响深远的巨著《Motivation and Personality》(中译名：动机与人格)，由下而上，把人类的需求层次分为金字塔五阶式人格理论：从生理需求、安全需求、被归属、接纳的需求，到自尊心需求，以及第五阶段的自我实现需求。

"Gothic & Lolita" charts the current trend of Gothic street fashion that has swept Japan over the last decade. Influenced by Western fashion trends from the mid 1980s, young teenagers, predominately adolescent girls, congregate in the urban centres of Harajuku, Akihabara and a number of underground clubs in and around Tokyo, dressed head-to-toe in gothic costumes and late-Victo...(展开全部)

Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral ...(展开全部)

Seth Grahame-Smith 作家、劇作家、電影製作人；曾上過一堂英國文學課。目前居住在洛杉磯。其他著作有：《色情全書》（The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies）、《蜘蛛人手冊》（The Spider-Man Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual）、《如何成為恐怖電影裡最後的存活者》（How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills）、《總統先生對不起》（Pardon My President: Fold-and-Mail Apologies for 8 Years）。目前在撰寫《吸血鬼獵人林肯》（Abraham Lincol...(展开全部)

Originally published over twenty-five years ago, "Micromotives and Macrobehavior" still feels fresh today. And the subject of these stories - how small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large group - is more important than ever. In one famous example, Thomas C. Schelling shows that a slight-but...(展开全部)

The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. Once a proud Senator...(展开全部)