The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of ...(展开全部)

阿尔维托•曼古埃尔（Alberto Manguel，1948— ）是阿根廷裔加拿大籍作家，也是编辑、翻译家、评论家和教育家，曾任阿根廷国家图书馆馆长。他出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，在特拉维夫度过童年；十几岁时回到阿根廷，为已盲的博尔赫斯担任朗读书童；后前往欧洲，在法国、英国、意大利等地生活和工作；在1980年代移居多伦多并成为加拿大公民。著有《阅读史》（1996年）、《深夜里的图书馆》（2007年）等。曾获古腾堡奖、布克国际文学奖等奖项。 毛竹，北京大学哲学系外国哲学博士，鲁汶大学访问学者，中国社会科学院哲学研究所博士后，现就职于《世界哲学》编辑部。著有《向京•作品集（别册）》等，译有《神学与科学的想象：从中世纪到17世纪》等。

阿尔维托•曼古埃尔（Alberto Manguel，1948— ）是阿根廷裔加拿大籍作家，也是编辑、翻译家、评论家和教育家，曾任阿根廷国家图书馆馆长。他出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，在特拉维夫度过童年；十几岁时回到阿根廷，为已盲的博尔赫斯担任朗读书童；后前往欧洲，在法国、英国、意大利等地生活和工作；在1980年代移居多伦多并成为加拿大公民。著有《阅读史》（1996年）、《深夜里的图书馆》（2007年）等。曾获古腾堡奖、布克国际文学奖等奖项。 毛竹，北京大学哲学系外国哲学博士，鲁汶大学访问学者，中国社会科学院哲学研究所博士后，现就职于《世界哲学》编辑部。著有《向京•作品集（别册）》等，译有《神学与科学的想象：从中世纪到17世纪》等。

Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of the 1970s generation of British film theorists and independent filmmakers, she came to prominence with her classic work on the pleasures, and displeasures, of narrative cinema, Visual and Other Pleasures. This new collection contains...(展开全部)

"A vibrant telling, amplified by striking images and photographs, of the Curiosity mission to Mars....A totally gratifying account." --Kirkus Reviews "Kaufman’s vivid description of the Curiosity rover mission to Mars, its history and its scientific results brings you as close as possible (without being a member of the science team) to the excitement, the frustration and the ex...(展开全部)

Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and feminism. Part of the pathbeating 1970s generation of British film theorists and independent film-makers, she came to prominence with her classic essay on the pleasures – and displeasures – ...(展开全部)

James Delbourgo is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.

From Aristotle to Schrödinger: The Curiosity of Physics offers a novel introduction to the topics commonly encountered in the first two years of an undergraduate physics course, including classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and molecular physics, and astrophysics. The book presents physics as it ...(展开全部)

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution. Wired called Dr. Fei-Fei Li “one of a tiny group of scientists―a group perhaps small enough to fit around a kitchen table―who are responsible for AI’s recent remarkable advances.” Known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of ...(展开全部)

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems—and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the catapult to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NCSU, provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in the discipline. He covers the various areas, ...(展开全部)