In 1889, the editor of the San Francisco Examiner, having accepted an article from Rudyard Kipling, informed the author that he should not bother to submit any more. "This isn't a kindergarten for amateur writers," the editor wrote. "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language." A century later, John Grisham was turned down by sixteen agents ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 約翰‧歐康奈（John O’Connell） 自幼靠著番茄肉醬義大利麵和冷凍電視餐維生，直到1990年代搬到倫敦，才真正在美食天堂開了眼界，發現形形色色的食物，並且鼓勇嚐試，此後一發不可收拾，展開對香料和美食的終生追尋。他在文化娛樂活動預告雜誌《出遊時光》（Time Out）工作多年，並說服主編讓他買了一頭牛來，在每週專欄撰寫循序烹飪整頭牛的記錄。他著有I Told You I Was Ill: Adventures in Hypochondria和小說The Baskerville Legacy，並定期為《泰晤士報》和《衛報》撰稿。現居倫敦南區，最愛的香料是孜然。 譯者簡介 莊安祺 台大外文系畢業，印地安那大學英美文學碩士，譯有《西藏的故事》、《托爾金傳》、《翁山蘇姬》、《創作者的日常生活》等書。

All new PhD's hope that their dissertations can become books. But a dissertation is written for a committee, and a book for the world. William Germano's From Dissertation to Book is the essential guide for academic writers who want to revise a doctoral thesis for publication. The author of Getting It Published, Germano draws upon his extensive experience in academic publishing ...(展开全部)

Fifteen years into his Papacy, and on the eve of the third millennium, Pope John Paul II goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about pain, suffering, and evil; about "salvation"; and about the relationship of Catholicism to other branches of the Christian faith. With the humility and generosity of spirit for which he is we...(展开全部)

Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret code she used to communicate with her conspirators. And thus the course of British history was altered by a few sheets of cryp...(展开全部)

This revised and enlarged fourth edition features five new chapters, which treat classical results such as the "Fundamental Theorem of Algebra", problems about tilings, but also quite recent proofs, for example of the Kneser conjecture in graph theory. The new edition also presents further improvements and surprises, among them a new proof for "Hilbert's Third Problem". From th...(展开全部)

One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves togethe...(展开全部)

摩西·迈蒙尼德（1135－1204），中世纪最伟大的犹太哲学家、思想家和律法大师，所著《迷途指津》《论知识》等均为犹太经典。 董修元，山东青岛人，生于1983年，博士。

Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, and here she brings together sixty-five of the most intriguing and fascinating exchanges, ...(展开全部)