珍妮·厄格洛 英国传记作家、历史学家、评论家和资深出版人，曾任 Chatto & Windus主编。曾撰写伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔（Elizabeth Gaskell），威廉·霍加斯（William Hogarth），托马斯·贝威克（Thomas Bewick）和爱德华·李尔（Edward Lear）的传记，备受好评。The Lunar Men： The Friends Who Made The Future是其代表作，以优美流畅的文笔讲述了工业革命时期，月光社成员如何以自己致力终身的兴趣和事业在历史中留下其轨迹，引导着英国工业化社会发展。

In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah ...(展开全部)

珍妮·厄格洛 英国传记作家、历史学家、评论家和资深出版人，曾任 Chatto & Windus主编。曾撰写伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔（Elizabeth Gaskell），威廉·霍加斯（William Hogarth），托马斯·贝威克（Thomas Bewick）和爱德华·李尔（Edward Lear）的传记，备受好评。The Lunar Men： The Friends Who Made The Future是其代表作，以优美流畅的文笔讲述了工业革命时期，月光社成员如何以自己致力终身的兴趣和事业在历史中留下其轨迹，引导着英国工业化社会发展。

Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels.We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. 'Outsider', 'outlaw', 'outcast': a woman's reputation was her...(展开全部)

林德尔•戈登（Lyndall Gordon），1941年生于南非开普敦，美国哥伦比亚大学文学博士，以罗德学者身份前往牛津大学，现为牛津大学圣希尔达学院资深研究员。 胡笑然，北京师范大学外文学院英语系讲师，英国伦敦大学玛丽女王学院英语文学博士。 肖一之，上海外国语大学英语学院讲师，美国布朗大学比较文学博士。 许小凡，北京外国语大学英语学院讲师，英国诺丁汉大学英语文学博士。

Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders, award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by conve...(展开全部)

一段令人惊讶、引人入胜的实验之旅，它不仅揭开了物质的本质，塑造了我们对宇宙的理解，而且永远改变了我们在其中生活的方式。 "一本关于物理学基本问题的书，从我以前未曾接触过的观点写起：实验者的观点。一个辉煌的想法，生动的执行。" 菲利普·普尔曼，《黑暗材料》的畅销书作者 物理学一直在寻求加深我们对物质的性质和我们周围世界的理解。但你如何对存在的基本构件进行实验？你如何操纵比沙粒小一万亿倍的粒子？你如何使一个质子每秒绕着一个27公里长的环路航行11,000次？而且，关键是，为什么这一切都很重要？ 在《万物之灵》中，加速器物理学家苏西·希希向我们介绍了那些通过天才、毅力和运气的结合，上演了改变历史进程的实验的人们。从德国实验室偶然发现X射线，到科学家们试图证明爱因斯坦是错的（并无意中证明他是对的），再到分裂原子的竞赛，这些杰出的实验导致了科学上一些重大...(展开全部)

When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota in particular, were making a strong showing by applying the principles of lean production. However, the full power of lean principles was unproven, and they had not been applied outside of the auto industry. Today, the power of lean production has b...(展开全部)

When James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990, Japanese automakers, and Toyota in particular, were making a strong showing by applying the principles of lean production. However, the full power of lean principles was unproven, and they had not been applied outside of the auto industry. Today, the power of lean production has b...(展开全部)