弗朗西丝·默纳·卡姆 | F.M.Kamm 当代具有卓越影响力的哲学家，哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院“卢修斯·利陶尔哲学与公共政策讲席教授”（Lucius Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy），权威学术期刊《哲学与公共事务》（Philosophy & Public Affairs）编辑委员会成员，美国人文与科学院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）院士。

弗朗西丝·默纳·卡姆 | F.M.Kamm 当代具有卓越影响力的哲学家，哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院“卢修斯·利陶尔哲学与公共政策讲席教授”（Lucius Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy），权威学术期刊《哲学与公共事务》（Philosophy & Public Affairs）编辑委员会成员，美国人文与科学院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）院士。

The Nobel Prize winner's exquisite new novel—his first in over a decade. At the age of 88, Claude Simon, a Nobel Prize-winning author and a cultural icon in France, has written a Proustian novel, intermingling the memories of youth and of old age. His madeleine is the trolley of the book's title, the transport that took him to and from his school every morning of his child...(展开全部)

A BEAUTIFUL NOVEL OF MEMORY, YOUTH, AND OLD AGE, FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER Claude Simon, a Nobel Prize - winning author and cultural icon in France, here presents a Proustian novel, exquisitely intermingling the memories of youth and old age. His madeleine is the trolley of the book's title, the transport that took him to and from school every morning of his childhood. As the...(展开全部)

A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers. On a spur to the right stands a single individual. And you re a bystander holding a switch that could divert the trolley. Should you let events unfold and watch as the trolley plows into the five? Or intervene pull the switch, killing the one? This ethical conundrum based on British philosopher Philippa Foot s 19...(展开全部)

From the author of 'The Music of the Primes' and 'Finding Moonshine' comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved -- and on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths. Every time we download a song from Itunes, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our mobile phones, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. Maths may...(展开全部)

马库斯·杜·索托伊（Marcus du Sautoy） 牛津大学数学教授、西蒙义讲座教授，英国工程暨物理研究委员会研究员，英国皇家协会研究员。马库斯是一位不按常理出牌的数学天才，他创造了“流行数学”的概念，将复杂的数字和数学概念用形象生动、通俗易懂的语言表达出来，被誉为“百家讲坛”式的学者。他是BBC科普节目嘉宾、TED演讲嘉宾，《泰晤士报》和《卫报》专栏作家，曾获伦敦数学会的贝维克奖、英国官佐勋章，并在2004年被英国《周日独立报》评为英国最杰出的科学家之一，被英国《绅士》杂志列为全英40岁以下最具影响力的百位人物之一。业余时间，他爱好足球运动，目前是英国作家足球队队员。

From the most famous mathematician in Britain comes the ultimate handikit to mathematics. From hopscotch to Wayne Rooney with lots and lots of games to play, The Number Mysteries shows why mathematics really is at the heart of everything we do. 'Mind-bending, fascinating and useful too. Maths didn't used to be this much fun.' Alan Davies. We are all taught how fundamental mat...(展开全部)

From the author of 'The Music of the Primes' and 'Finding Moonshine' comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved -- and on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths. Every time we download a song from Itunes, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our mobile phones, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. Maths may...(展开全部)

From the most famous mathematician in Britain comes the ultimate handikit to mathematics. From hopscotch to Wayne Rooney with lots and lots of games to play, The Number Mysteries shows why mathematics really is at the heart of everything we do. 'Mind-bending, fascinating and useful too. Maths didn't used to be this much fun.' Alan Davies. We are all taught how fundamental mat...(展开全部)