Praised unflinchingly by Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein, this stunning work, first published in 1933 by the Obelisk Press, Paris, is a non-judgemental depiction of gay life and men who earn their living there, told through characters like Julian (modeled on Ford) and Karel (based on Tyler). With the added interracial connotations (book was set in Harlem and Greenwich), is anyo...(展开全部)

The author, in his twenties, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou―the generation born after 1990. A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex, to their government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world--...(展开全部)

The author, in his twenties, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou―the generation born after 1990. A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex, to their government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world--...(展开全部)

马克斯·玻恩 Max Born（1882.12.11—1970.1.5） 德国著名理论物理学家、数学家，量子力学奠基人之一。他一生所获荣誉众多，被先后邀请为近10个国家级科学院（或学会）的院士，并于1954年被授予诺贝尔物理学奖，以表彰他在量子力学领域的基础研究。 马克斯·玻恩曾在德国组建著名的“哥廷根学派”，并将哥廷根建设成世界物理学研究中心之一。他曾在德国和英国多所顶级院校担任教授，泡利和海森堡曾是他的助手，费米和奥本海默曾是他的学生。他还教导过很多中国科学家，包括“两弹一星”元勋彭桓武、程开甲，中国核物理学会理事长杨立铭、中国半导体技术奠基人黄昆等。 玻恩一生著述众多，发表论文300多篇，出版著作20多部，本书是他唯一为大众所写的科普著作。

New York has always been a bellwether for the nation, representing both its brightest ambitions and its darkest fears. "The Restless City" is a short, readable history of New York City, from colonial times to the present, showing how the successes and struggles of the city reinforced each other to create a distinctly dynamic, shocking, and therefore influential city. Organized ...(展开全部)

New York has always been a bellwether for the nation, representing both its brightest ambitions and its darkest fears. The Restless City is a short, readable history of New York City, from colonial times to the present, showing how the successes and struggles of the city reinforced each other to create a distinctly dynamic, shocking, and therefore influential city. Organized ar...(展开全部)

A stunning work, first published in 1933 by Obelisk Press (Jack Kahane's legacy), The Young and the Evil is a non-judgmental depiction of gay life and men who earn their living there, told through characters like Julian (modeled on Ford) and Karel (based on Tyler). With the added interracial connotations (book was set in Harlem and Greenwich), err, anyone surprised that this ti...(展开全部)

Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire. The emperor Hadrian, a strange...(展开全部)

"Philosophy and the Young Child" presents striking evidence that young children naturally engage in a brand of thought that is genuinely philosophical. In a series of exquisite examples that could only have been gathered by a professional philosopher with an extraordinary respect for young minds, Gareth Matthews demonstrates that children have a capacity for puzzlement and ment...(展开全部)

"Philosophy and the Young Child" presents striking evidence that young children naturally engage in a brand of thought that is genuinely philosophical. In a series of exquisite examples that could only have been gathered by a professional philosopher with an extraordinary respect for young minds, Gareth Matthews demonstrates that children have a capacity for puzzlement and ment...(展开全部)