Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu? In The Language...(展开全部)

From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? John Allen Paulos, travels through the pages of an average newspaper, revealing how mathematics is at the heart of the articles we read everyday - even horoscopes and the sports pages - and how often they mislead us. By understanding simple c...(展开全部)

With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made Innumeracy a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages of the daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a key element in many of the articles we read every day.From the Senate, SATs, and sex, to crime, celebrities, and cults, he takes stories that may not seem to involve mathematics at ...(展开全部)

扶霞·邓洛普 英国人，中文名叫邓扶霞。 成长在英国牛津，曾在剑桥大学学习英国文学，后再伦敦亚非学院中国研究专业取得硕士学位。1994年获得英国文化教育协会奖学金，在四川大学交流学习一年。之后在四川烹饪高等专科学校学习专业厨艺，成为该校第一位外国学生。 扶霞研究中国烹饪及中国饮食文化20余年，曾四次获得美食界“奥斯卡”詹姆斯·比尔德烹饪写作大奖。 她把自己对中国美食的热爱写成了书，著有《川菜》《鱼米之乡》《鱼翅与花椒》等。

An essential update of Fuchsia Dunlop’s landmark book on Sichuan cuisine, with 200 recipes and stunning photographs. Almost twenty years after the publication of Land of Plenty, considered by many to be one of the greatest cookbooks of all time, Fuchsia Dunlop revisits the region where her own culinary journey began, adding more than 70 new recipes to the original repertoire an...(展开全部)

Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles t...(展开全部)

An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common histo...(展开全部)

An indispensable store of information on the English language, written by some of the best-known grammarians in the world.