Can a Christian escape from a lion? How quickly can a rumour spread? Can you fool an airline into accepting oversize baggage? Recreational mathematics is full of frivolous questions where the mathematician's art can be brought to bear. But play often has a purpose. In mathematics, it can sharpen skills, provide amusement, or simply surprise, and books of problems have been the ...(展开全部)

Can a Christian escape from a lion? How quickly can a rumour spread? Can you fool an airline into accepting oversize baggage? Recreational mathematics is full of frivolous questions where the mathematician's art can be brought to bear. But play often has a purpose. In mathematics, it can sharpen skills, provide amusement, or simply surprise, and books of problems have been the ...(展开全部)

An introduction to writing proofs, presented through compelling mathematical statements with interesting elementary proofs. This book offers an introduction to the art and craft of proof-writing. The author, a leading research mathematician, presents a series of engaging and compelling mathematical statements with interesting elementary proofs. These proofs capture a wide range...(展开全部)

Après le succès de Goggles, le nouveau bijou d'émotion de Tetsuya Toyoda. Dans Coffee Time, Tetsuya Toyoda nous invite à partager l'espace d'un instant la folie et les angoisses des acteurs de son fascinant théâtre moderne. D'Antonio Morelli, réalisateur italien complètement mythomane, aux enquêtes de Yamasaki, détective privé désabusé, en passant par les déboires d'une jeune a...(展开全部)

A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system. More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes them to shocking levels of deprivation and abuse and subjects them to the arbi...(展开全部)

雷·布雷德伯里（Ray Bradbury，1920-2012） 美国科幻小说家、散文家、剧作家、编剧、诗人。代表作有《黑色嘉年华》《火星编年史》《华氏 451》《图案人》《蒲公英酒》等。其中《华氏 451》被美国国会图书馆选入“二十世纪最有影响力的一百本小说”，并由法国著名 导演弗朗索瓦·特吕弗拍成同名电影。 布雷德伯里非常高产，迄今已出版五百多篇（部）作品，他一生获奖无数，所荣获奖项包括“欧·亨利纪念奖”“富兰克林奖”“世界奇幻文学协会终生成就奖”“美国科幻小说作家协会大师奖”“普利策特殊贡献奖”，美国国家图书基金会颁发的“美国文学杰出贡献奖”……布雷德伯里的写作启发了无数读者，让他们勇于做梦、思考、创作。2012 年，在布雷德伯里逝世之后，美国航天总署（NASA）“好奇号”火星探测器将火星着陆点命名为“布雷德伯里”，以纪念这位伟大的科幻小说家。

Since its original publication in 1953, Zen in the Art of Archery has become one of the classic works on Eastern philosophy, the first book to delve deeply into the role of Zen in philosophy, development, and practice of Eastern martial arts. Wise, deeply personal, and frequently charming, it is the story of one man's penetration of the theory and practice of Zen Buddhism.Eugen...(展开全部)

In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called "not being entitled to time." This anxiety and uneasiness about time, which Pamela Lee calls "chronophobia," cut across movements, media, and genres, and was figured in works ranging from kinetic sculptures to Andy Warhol films. Despite its pervasiven...(展开全部)