A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world. Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, has significantly improved our understanding of, among other things, financial variability and erratic physical phenomena. In The Fractalist, Mandelbro...(展开全部)

A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world. Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, has significantly improved our understanding of, among other things, financial variability and erratic physical phenomena. In The Fractalist, Mandelbro...(展开全部)

Sex and food, once celebrated as two of life's great joys, suffer a lot of bad press these days. Genuine epidemics, coupled with monthly findings of new things that are bad for us, have pushed otherwise happy souls into programs of agonizing denial and, in severe instances, abstinence. Thankfully, in this sophisticated defense of pleasure, novelist Allende (The House of the Spi...(展开全部)

Sex and food, once celebrated as two of life's great joys, suffer a lot of bad press these days. Genuine epidemics, coupled with monthly findings of new things that are bad for us, have pushed otherwise happy souls into programs of agonizing denial and, in severe instances, abstinence. Thankfully, in this sophisticated defense of pleasure, novelist Allende (The House of the Spi...(展开全部)

恩古吉•瓦•提安哥（1938— ），肯尼亚小说家、剧作家、政论家。恩古吉是非洲乃至世界文坛上知名度最高的作家之一，也是近年来诺贝尔文学奖的最热门候选人之一。1964年毕业于乌干达马赫雷雷大学，后入英国利兹大学续修文学。1967年回国，在内罗毕大学任教。1977年因抗议当局对英语的强制性教育而被政府逮捕，获释后与家人过着流亡的生活，直到肯尼亚独裁者阿拉普•莫伊下台才终于得以安全回国。

恩古吉•瓦•提安哥（1938— ），肯尼亚小说家、剧作家、政论家。恩古吉是非洲乃至世界文坛上知名度最高的作家之一，也是近年来诺贝尔文学奖的最热门候选人之一。1964年毕业于乌干达马赫雷雷大学，后入英国利兹大学续修文学。1967年回国，在内罗毕大学任教。1977年因抗议当局对英语的强制性教育而被政府逮捕，获释后与家人过着流亡的生活，直到肯尼亚独裁者阿拉普•莫伊下台才终于得以安全回国。

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)

From his childhood in suburban Basingstoke, through times of literally being down and out in London and Paris, to success as one of the co-founders of one of Britain's most revered bands, Carl Barat has gone through the glass darkly as bands fell apart around him, friendships faltered and egos and hedonism threatened to pull his life apart. THREEPENNY MEMOIR tells his extraordi...(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)

威廉·麦克尼尔（William Hardy McNeill）1917年生于加拿大温哥华，著名美国历史学家。曾长期执教美国芝加哥大学历史系。他的研究着眼于跨国家、跨地区、跨民族、跨文化的文明互动现象。对于确立世界史在美国学术界的地位做出了不可磨灭的贡献。著作多达二十余种，影响深远，其中主要的有《西方文明史手册》、《西方的兴起》、《世界史》和《人类之网》。