What exactly is happiness? Can we measure it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that could eliminate all unhappiness? People all over the world, and throughout the ages, have thought about happiness, argued about its nature, and, most of all, desired it. But why do we have such a strong instinct to pursue happiness? And if happiness is good in its...(展开全部)

林伍德·巴克利，国际畅销小说家。 巴克利自幼便对侦探小说很感兴趣，从特伦特大学获得英语文学学位后，辗转至加拿大发行量第一的主流媒体《多伦多星报》，担任记者、编辑，并撰写幽默专栏，广受好评。 2007年，出版推理小说《无暇道别》，在全球迅速畅销百万册，获得亚瑟·埃利斯奖、巴瑞奖、国际惊悚作家协会最佳小说等多项大奖。巴克利一跃成为加拿大最成功的当代作家之一，此后便退休专职写作。 《目击症人》是巴克利的代表作之一，被评为《图书馆杂志》年度之书，《波士顿环球报》年度最佳犯罪小说，获美国巴瑞奖年度最佳小说提名。

林伍德·巴克利，国际畅销小说家。 巴克利自幼便对侦探小说很感兴趣，从特伦特大学获得英语文学学位后，辗转至加拿大发行量第一的主流媒体《多伦多星报》，担任记者、编辑，并撰写幽默专栏，广受好评。 2007年，出版推理小说《无暇道别》，在全球迅速畅销百万册，获得亚瑟·埃利斯奖、巴瑞奖、国际惊悚作家协会最佳小说等多项大奖。巴克利一跃成为加拿大最成功的当代作家之一，此后便退休专职写作。 《目击症人》是巴克利的代表作之一，被评为《图书馆杂志》年度之书，《波士顿环球报》年度最佳犯罪小说，获美国巴瑞奖年度最佳小说提名。

'...visually stunning and mentally stimulating' - "Scientific American". 'the author of "What Painting Is" (1998) has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire us 'to learn to see anything.' It's a tall order, to be sure, but one that the author pulls off admirably!. "How to Use Your Eyes" is a wondrous visual tour that Elkins hopes wi...(展开全部)

I hope this book will inspire every reader to stop and consider things that are...so clearly meaningless that they never seemed worth a second thought.... Grass, the night sky, a postage stamp, a crack in the sidewalk, a shoulder. Ordinary objects of everyday life. But when we look at them--really look at them--what do we see? In the tradition of John Berger's bestselli...(展开全部)

伊曼纽尔·德曼（Emanuel Derman） 教授，就职于哥伦比亚大学，主管金融工程项目。他出生于南非，但是职业生涯的大部分时间都在曼哈顿。他最早是一位理论物理学家，研究基本粒子相互作用的统一理论。20世纪80年代，在AT&T的贝尔实验室，他开发了商业模型的编程语言。1985～2002年，他在华尔街工作，期间与人合作开发了Black-Derman-Toy利率模型以及局部波动率模型。他此前的著作《宽客人生》以及《失灵：为什么看来可靠的模型最终都会失效》都是《商业周刊》前十大畅销书。 迈克尔B.米勒（Michael B. Miller） Northstar风险公司的创始人和首席执行官。在创立Northstar之前，他曾担任Tremblant资本的首席风险官，在那之前，他负责Fortress投资集团的量化风险管理业务。他曾出版著作《金融风险管理中的数学及...(展开全部)

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

Heaven Has Eyes is a comprehensive but concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era. Never before has a single book treated the traditional Chinese law and judicial practices and their modern counterparts as a coherent history, addressing both criminal and civil justice. This book fills this void. Xiaoqun Xu addresses the evolution and fu...(展开全部)

A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. . . . A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. . . . A phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime? Off-duty deputy Brynn leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to deserted Lake Mondac to find out. She stumbles onto the scene of a heinous murder. . . . Before she can call for backup, though, she fin...(展开全部)

1920s Paris: Birthplace of the graphic novel?! F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel. Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank Gang is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of these four literary figures as not only typical Jason anthropom...(展开全部)