With style, wit, and expertise, Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in The Infinite Variety of Music, illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers. He begins with an "imaginary conversation" with George Washington entitled "The Muzak Muse," in which he argues the values of actively listening to music by le...(展开全部)

Gallery of the Infinite is a mathematician's unique view of the infinitely many sizes of infinity. Written in a playful yet informative style, it introduces important concepts from set theory (including the Cantor Diagonalization Method and the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem) using colorful pictures, with little text and almost no formulas. It requires no specialized background and i...(展开全部)

Gallery of the Infinite is a mathematician's unique view of the infinitely many sizes of infinity. Written in a playful yet informative style, it introduces important concepts from set theory (including the Cantor Diagonalization Method and the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem) using colorful pictures, with little text and almost no formulas. It requires no specialized background and i...(展开全部)

耶胡迪・梅纽因在七岁首次登上音乐厅舞台时便震惊了音乐界，此后便一直是他那个时代的传奇人物。他不仅是位杰出的音乐家，而且是位作家、历史学家和人道主义者。乔治・斯坦纳曾评价道：“梅纽因的光芒……已使自己诠释音乐的过程成为一种彻底的情感表达和人性的体现。”梅纽因于1916年出生于美国的一个俄裔犹太人家庭。他十岁时在巴黎首次面对十分挑剔的欧洲音乐精英；十二岁时，他便在柏林同布鲁诺・瓦尔特合作演出。作为小提琴演奏大师和著名指挥家，梅纽因的作品被录音的次数超过了20世纪的所有音乐家。他曾在世界备地的音乐厅里演奏，并在第二次世界大战期间活跃在各个盟军战区，为将士们献艺。梅纽因充分意识到音乐神童所面临的问题，于是在英国萨里郡的斯托克达伯农创办了一所音乐学校，为来自世界各地的天才音乐学子提供学院教育和最好的音乐专业培养。然而，耶胡迪・梅纽因的兴趣远不止局限于小提琴家、...(展开全部)

This classic work is perhaps Bernstein's finest collection of conversations on the meaning and wonder of music. This book is a must for all music fans who wish to experience music more fully and deeply through one of the most inspired, and inspiring, music intellects of our time. Employing the creative device of "Imaginary Conversations" in the first section of his book, Bernst...(展开全部)

The second volume of the definite five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth centure's greatest sf author includes such masterpieces as the title story,with its endless war being fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robot weapons, and "Imposor", where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. In these twent...(展开全部)

This book teaches functional programming through creative applications in music and sound synthesis. Readers will learn the Haskell programming language and explore numerous ways to create music and design virtual instruments with concise, elegant code.

作者：阿多諾(Theodor W. Adorno) 阿多諾(Theodor W. Adorno, 1903-1969)，德國哲學家、社會學家、美學家、音樂學家、作曲家，「法蘭克福學派」主要成員，在上述各領域影響深遠，著有《啟蒙辯證法》、《現代音樂的哲學》、《多稜鏡：文化批判與社會》、《否定的辯證法》、《美學理論》。 譯者：彭淮棟 新竹縣竹東鎮人，東海大學外文系畢業，台灣大學外文研究所肄業，曾任出版公司編輯，現任報紙編譯。譯有《後殖民理論》、《意義》、《俄國思想家》、《自由主義之後》、《西方政治思想史》（麥克里蘭）、《鄉關何處》、《現實意義》、《美的歷史》、《醜的歷史》、《貝多芬：阿多諾的音樂哲學》、《音樂的極境：薩依德音樂評論集》、《論晚期風格：反常合道的音樂與文學》等書。