在线阅读本书 The classic bestselling bookthe subject of a play, a movie, and a songthat tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special, and ultimately dangerous, relationship with six of her students. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

在线阅读本书 The classic bestselling bookthe subject of a play, a movie, and a songthat tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special, and ultimately dangerous, relationship with six of her students. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"A fascinating walk through a pivotal period in human history."--USA Today For many people, the Internet is the epitome of cutting-edge technology. But in the nineteenth century, the first online communications network was already in place--the telegraph. And at the time, it was just as perplexing, controversial, and revolutionary as the Internet is today. The Victorian Int...(展开全部)

Quanta Magazine's stories of mathematical explorations show that "inspiration strikes willy-nilly," revealing surprising solutions and exciting discoveries. These stories from Quanta Magazine map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing readers how cutting-edge research is done, while illuminating the productive tension between conjecture and proof, theory and intuition....(展开全部)

Scalpel-sharp in observation, deceptively simple in construction... at its frequent best Yes Prime Minister exhibits the classical perfection of a Mozart sonata' - Richard Last in The Times 'Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in the corridors of power has given me hours of pure joy' - Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher MP ' Yes Prime Minister ... is...(展开全部)

In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled “On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity.” Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the Riemann Hyphothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first person ...(展开全部)

根据所受的教育，约翰·德比希尔（John Derbyshire）是一位数学家和语言学家；根据所从事的职业，他是一位系统分析师；而在业余时间，他是一位著名的作家。 他的成名作是《梦见柯立芝》（Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream），这部l996年出版的小说大受人们欢迎，亚德利（Jonathan Yardley）在《华盛顿邮报·图书世界》（Washington Post Book World）上对它赞赏有加，《纽约时报·书评》（The New York Times Book Review）、《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《波士顿环球报》（The Bosun Globe）等报刊也一致给予好评。他的作品还频繁出现在《国家评论》（National Review）和《新标准》（The New Criterion）杂志上...(展开全部)

The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the local level, and a rare hands-on picture of the role of ordinary Chinese in the juggernaut that is China, Inc. Beijing-based journalists Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araújo crisscrossed the globe from 2009-2011 to investigate how the Chinese are lit...(展开全部)

This book describes the transformation of Ch'ing governance from monarchical rule to ministerial administration, presenting a wholly new account of the Grand Council's founding and rise to dominance. This period has been viewed as an era of intensified government centralization and increasing autocracy, but Bartlett persuasively demonstrates that this characterization must be m...(展开全部)