罗伯特·卡尼格尔，科学作家，曾获格雷迪—斯塔克科学写作奖，是《师从天才——一个科学王朝的崛起》等书的作者。作品散见于多种刊物，其中有《纽约时报杂志》、《文明》、《今日心理学》、《健康》、《科学》等等。他定期为《纽约时报图书评论》和《洛杉矶时报》写书评。卡尼格尔还是巴尔的摩大学耶鲁·高登文学艺术学院语言、技术和出版设计研究所的高级研究员，曾在约翰斯·霍普金斯大学执教新闻文学。

In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realising the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled. With a passion for rich ...(展开全部)

In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realising the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled. With a passion for rich ...(展开全部)

Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid focus the mysterious point where the government and the economy meet. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 3...(展开全部)

塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比（Sebastian Mallaby） 美国外交关系委员会保罗﹒沃尔克国际经济高级研究员，《金融时报》前编辑，曾两度获得美国新闻领域至尊荣誉普利策奖。其著作包括《富可敌国》(More Money Than God)，《世界银行家》(The World‘s Banker) 等。

Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid focus the mysterious point where the government and the economy meet. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 3...(展开全部)

A vivid personal account of a Golden Age in classical music—the second half of the 20th century—providing a rare, behind-the-scenes view of the inner workings of a top symphony orchestra. Nancy Shear was only fifteen when she began sneaking into Philadelphia Orchestra concerts through the stage door, and seventeen when she was hired as a member of the orchestra’s library staff ...(展开全部)

作者简介：格雷姆•法米罗（Graham Farmelo ），毕业于剑桥大学理论物理专业，伦敦科学博物馆的高级研究员，英国东北大学物理系的兼职教授。 译者简介：兰 梅，北京人，外交学院外交英语专业和澳大利亚Charles Sturt大学毕业；曾任职于中华人民共和国外交部和意大利蒙塞拉特基金会北京办事处。近年从事展览与文化项目策划并主持艺术与科学跨学科交流机构“关係社”www.guanxihouse.org，主要译著有《量子怪杰：保罗•狄拉克传》 《向死而生：莱昂内大传》等。 审校者简介：季燕江， 北京人，执教于北京科技大学理论物理系，曾在美国华盛顿特区进修，讲授量子力学，多体理论，自然科学史等课程。对科学论文的开放获取（open access）及科学文化感兴趣，曾创办国内第一个开放获取平台——奇迹文库http://www.qiji.cn/eprint...(展开全部)

Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower middle- class family of Wu. The author uses experiences of the Wu family's son from birth to marriage to convey in rich detail a vanished way of life, including children's games, nurs...(展开全部)