An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a ra...(展开全部)

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a ra...(展开全部)

This commentary on the discovery of the atom's constituents provides an historical account of key events in the physics of the twentieth century that led to the discoveries of the electron, proton and neutron. Steven Weinberg introduces the fundamentals of classical physics that played crucial roles in these discoveries. Connections are shown throughout the book between the his...(展开全部)

The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. "Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit th...(展开全部)

Alexis Zorba, the hero of this novel by NIkos Kazantzakis, author of The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, is a Greek workman who accompanies the narrator to Crete. Zorba is a figure created on a huge scale: his years have not dimmed the flame by which he lives, the gusto with which he responds to all that life offers him, whether he is supervising laborers at a mine, coping with mad m...(展开全部)

The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. "Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit th...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 约翰·伯瑞（J.B. Bury，1861–1927)，英国著名古典学者、拜占庭史学家和语言学家。1893-1902任都柏林三一大学伊拉斯谟·史密斯（Erasmus Smith）讲座教授。1902年直至逝世，任剑桥大学现代史钦定讲座教授。 【译者简介】 符莹岩，北京大学历史学博士，上海交通大学博士后。研究领域为希腊罗马史。 张继华，北京师范大学历史学博士，现供职于首都博物馆。研究领域为希腊罗马史和博物馆学。曾参与2010年国家社科基金重大招标项目《剑桥古代史》的翻译工作。

【作者简介】 约翰·伯瑞（J.B. Bury，1861–1927)，英国著名古典学者、拜占庭史学家和语言学家。1893-1902任都柏林三一大学伊拉斯谟·史密斯（Erasmus Smith）讲座教授。1902年直至逝世，任剑桥大学现代史钦定讲座教授。 【译者简介】 符莹岩，北京大学历史学博士，上海交通大学博士后。研究领域为希腊罗马史。 张继华，北京师范大学历史学博士，现供职于首都博物馆。研究领域为希腊罗马史和博物馆学。曾参与2010年国家社科基金重大招标项目《剑桥古代史》的翻译工作。

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...(展开全部)