John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his . . . gift to them. The Art of Fiction will fascinate anyone interested in how fiction gets put together. For the young writer, it will become a necessary handbook, a stern judge, an encouraging friend.--The New York Times Book Review.

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classi...(展开全部)

Narrative designers and game designers are critical to the development of digital and analog games. This book provides a detailed look at the work writers and designers perform every day on game development projects. It includes practical advice on how to break into the game industry as a writer or game designer. Readers can use the templates and detailed instructions provided ...(展开全部)

The newly revised Second Edtion of this distinctive text uniquely blends interesting problems with strategies, tools, and techniques to develop mathematical skill and intuition necessary for problem solving. Readers are encouraged to do math rather than just study it. The author draws upon his experience as a coach for the International Mathematics Olympiad to give students an ...(展开全部)

保罗·蔡茨 (Paul Zeitz) 曾就读于哈佛大学历史系，继而于加州大学伯克利分校获得数学博士学位。目前是旧金山大学的一名副教授。他曾获得美国数学奥林匹克竞赛大奖，并且是1974年美国代表队第一次参与国际数学奥林匹克竞赛的光荣一员。2003年荣获著名的Deborah Tepper Haimo 奖，这是由美国数学联盟颁发的全国性的大学数学教育奖项。

保罗·蔡茨 (Paul Zeitz) 曾就读于哈佛大学历史系，继而于加州大学伯克利分校获得数学博士学位。目前是旧金山大学的一名副教授。他曾获得美国数学奥林匹克竞赛大奖，并且是1974年美国代表队第一次参与国际数学奥林匹克竞赛的光荣一员。2003年荣获著名的Deborah Tepper Haimo 奖，这是由美国数学联盟颁发的全国性的大学数学教育奖项。

In these notes, Professor Kreps surveys the standard models of choice under uncertainty that lie at the heart of microeconomic theory. Choice and preference, ordinal utility, von Neumann-Morganstern utility and utility functions for money, and subjective probability and subjective expected utility are among the standard topics covered. These notes provide a rigorous but accessi...(展开全部)

"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In the first part of the book, Mr. Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs a...(展开全部)

Book Description "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing bee...(展开全部)

Book Description "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing bee...(展开全部)