拉斯洛·梅勒 匈牙利罗兰大学（Eötvös Loránd University）心理学研究所教授，达尔文营销进化论公司（Darwin's marketing Evolution，Inc.）联合创始人。

Why is it that incredibly unlikely phenomena actually happen quite regularly and why should we, in fact, expect such things to happen? Here, in this highly original book - aimed squarely at anyone with an interest in coincidences, probability or gambling - eminent statistician David Hand answers this question by weaving together various strands of probability into a unified exp...(展开全部)

Why is it that incredibly unlikely phenomena actually happen quite regularly and why should we, in fact, expect such things to happen? Here, in this highly original book - aimed squarely at anyone with an interest in coincidences, probability or gambling - eminent statistician David Hand answers this question by weaving together various strands of probability into a unified exp...(展开全部)

Sean Bowden shows you how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that fixed things or substances are always secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze's relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon, taking account of Leibniz, Lautman, structuralism and psychoanaly...(展开全部)

Sean Bowden shows you how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that fixed things or substances are always secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze's relation to the history of thought from the Stoics through to Simondon, taking account of Leibniz, Lautman, structuralism and psychoanaly...(展开全部)

Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again. The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history, the world of ideas contained between the covers of a book or, as in the case of Th...(展开全部)

劳伦斯•戈德斯通（Lawrence Goldstone）和南希•戈德斯通（Nancy Goldstone）皆是成功的小说家。戈德斯通夫妇现居美国康涅狄格州的韦斯特波特。

After years of competitive extravagance at birthday time, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone decided to limit themselves to $20 each, which is how they came to be in possession of a $10 definitive translation of War and Peace, complete with maps of the major battles and fold-out color illustrations. It is also how they eventually came to be the owners of a $650 edition of Dickens's M...(展开全部)

里克‧杰寇斯基　　　出生于美国，后前往英国牛津大学读书，博士毕业后在大学教授文学。二十多岁时，因为一套《查尔斯‧狄更斯作品全集》，使他一头栽入了珍本收藏、买卖的世界，后来更索性辞去大学教职，全心投入珍本书市，专门收售二十世纪重要著作的首版及手稿。　　他在英国BBC广播电台的节目《珍本书，奇怪人》中述说自己在这一行所遇到的奇人轶事，深受听众喜爱，也促成了《托尔金的袍子》一书的出版。杰寇斯基著有多部传记，2005年更曾担任布克奖评审。

When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade and libraries gradually came together...(展开全部)