This beautiful cloth-bound collection contains H.G. Wells' most celebrated tales, The First Men in the Moon, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, When the Sleeper Wakes and The Time Machine & Other Stories.

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)

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians bu...(展开全部)

The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door — crushing the cockroach — and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely ...(展开全部)

The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door — crushing the cockroach — and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely ...(展开全部)

G.H.， a well-to-do Rio sculptress， enters the room of her maid， which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black， dusty， prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and， panicking， slams the door on it. Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis， in which sh...(展开全部)

克拉丽丝•李斯佩克朵 （1922—1977） 巴西当代经典作家之一，被誉为自卡夫卡之后最重要的犹太作家，也是拉美文坛真正独树一帜的作家之一。 一九二〇年十二月十日出生于乌克兰的犹太家庭，不久即随父母移居巴西。一九四四年出版处女作《濒临狂野的心》，在巴西引起很大反响，之后陆续出版了小说《光》和《围困之城》，同时期完成《黑暗中的苹果》与短篇集《家庭纽带》的创作。二十世纪六十年代以降，写作才能获得公众承认，小说《黑暗中的苹果》获得卡门•多洛雷斯奖，儿童文学作品《爱思考的兔子奇事》获得卡伦加奖，并因其文学成就获得联邦大区文化基金会奖。 一九七七年十二月九日去世；次年，最后的作品《生命的吹息》出版。

This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investig...(展开全部)

This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.

This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.After putting forward the type of modal realism he favors, ...(展开全部)