作者簡介 約翰‧歐康奈（John O’Connell） 自幼靠著番茄肉醬義大利麵和冷凍電視餐維生，直到1990年代搬到倫敦，才真正在美食天堂開了眼界，發現形形色色的食物，並且鼓勇嚐試，此後一發不可收拾，展開對香料和美食的終生追尋。他在文化娛樂活動預告雜誌《出遊時光》（Time Out）工作多年，並說服主編讓他買了一頭牛來，在每週專欄撰寫循序烹飪整頭牛的記錄。他著有I Told You I Was Ill: Adventures in Hypochondria和小說The Baskerville Legacy，並定期為《泰晤士報》和《衛報》撰稿。現居倫敦南區，最愛的香料是孜然。 譯者簡介 莊安祺 台大外文系畢業，印地安那大學英美文學碩士，譯有《西藏的故事》、《托爾金傳》、《翁山蘇姬》、《創作者的日常生活》等書。

All new PhD's hope that their dissertations can become books. But a dissertation is written for a committee, and a book for the world. William Germano's From Dissertation to Book is the essential guide for academic writers who want to revise a doctoral thesis for publication. The author of Getting It Published, Germano draws upon his extensive experience in academic publishing ...(展开全部)

In 1889, the editor of the San Francisco Examiner, having accepted an article from Rudyard Kipling, informed the author that he should not bother to submit any more. "This isn't a kindergarten for amateur writers," the editor wrote. "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language." A century later, John Grisham was turned down by sixteen agents ...(展开全部)

Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret code she used to communicate with her conspirators. And thus the course of British history was altered by a few sheets of cryp...(展开全部)

This revised and enlarged fourth edition features five new chapters, which treat classical results such as the "Fundamental Theorem of Algebra", problems about tilings, but also quite recent proofs, for example of the Kneser conjecture in graph theory. The new edition also presents further improvements and surprises, among them a new proof for "Hilbert's Third Problem". From th...(展开全部)

摩西·迈蒙尼德（1135－1204），中世纪最伟大的犹太哲学家、思想家和律法大师，所著《迷途指津》《论知识》等均为犹太经典。 董修元，山东青岛人，生于1983年，博士。

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma , Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incred...(展开全部)

In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it. A few women like her s...(展开全部)

杰克·特纳(Jack Turner)1968年生于澳大利亚墨尔本，在墨尔本大学荻古典文学艺术专业学士学位。后获罗兹奖学金在牛津大学学习，并以麦克阿瑟基金会初级研究员身份在那里从事研究，获牛津大学国际关系学博士学位。现与妻子海伦娜及儿子旅居瑞士。《香料传奇》是他的第一本著作。