Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world, as told by Steven Bown, .Canada's Simon Winchester. (Globe and Mail). Through the Age of Heroic Commerce, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life merchant kings ruled vast tracts of the globe and expanded their far-flung monopolies t...(展开全部)

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the ...(展开全部)

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the ...(展开全部)

威廉•朱利叶斯•威尔逊（William Julius Wilson），美国著名社会学家，生于1935年，1966年获得华盛顿州立大学博士学位，1972年至1996年在芝加哥大学任教，后转入哈佛大学，于约翰•F•肯尼迪政府学院任教授，主要研究领域为民权、种族、贫困问题以及社会与城市政策。曾经担任美国社会学协会主席，获得过四十多个荣誉学位，包括耶鲁大学、普林斯顿大学、哥伦比亚大学等校的荣誉博士学位。他也是美国国家科学院院士。1996年，他被《时代》杂志评为美国最有影响力的二十五人之一。1998年获得了美国科学界的最高荣誉“国家科学勋章”。

Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fathe...(展开全部)

韩森（Valerie Hansen），耶鲁大学历史学教授，著名汉学家。著有《开放的帝国：1600 年前的中国历史》《传统中国日常生活中的协商：中古契约研究》《变迁之神——南宋时期的民间信仰》《丝绸之路新史》等汉学专著。 1979年，韩森毕业于哈佛大学，1987年获得宾夕 法尼亚大学博士学位，1988年加入耶鲁大学担任助理教授，1998年晋升为教授。她在耶鲁大学教授中国史和世界史已有三十余年。 译者简介： 刘云军，北京师范大学历史学博士。现为河北大学宋史研究中心副教授，目前从事宋代文献的整理与研究，海外汉学（侧重宋代）的译介。已译《权力关系：宋代中国的家族、地位与国家》《跨越门闾：宋代福建女性的日常生活》《剑桥中国宋代史》（上卷，合译）、《公元1000年：全球化的开端》《宋帝国的危机与维系：信息、领土与人际网络》《宋元社会变迁下的性别与贞节观》等。

伊莱恩·阿伦（Elaine N. Aron） · 心理学研究者、大学教授、心理医生和作家 · 亲密关系研究和高度敏感者研究领域的领先者 · 一名高度敏感者 · 建立了高度敏感者研究网站www.hsperson.com，已帮助无数具有敏感特质的人实现自我

伊莱恩·阿伦（Elaine N. Aron） · 心理学研究者、大学教授、心理医生和作家 · 亲密关系研究和高度敏感者研究领域的领先者 · 一名高度敏感者 · 建立了高度敏感者研究网站www.hsperson.com，已帮助无数具有敏感特质的人实现自我

In the years before the Second World War, a man throws a statue of the crucified Christ over a waterfall. Later, in Hitler's trenches, he loses his arms to an enemy grenade. The blasphemer, screaming in agony, presided over by Satan, who pours a cup of gall into his open mouth, is portrayed amid the flames of Hell in a painting by the parish priest that is mounted on a calvary ...(展开全部)

Nau cannot remember a time when she was not one with the world around her: with the fast breeze, the green grass, the high clouds, and the endless blue sky. But her greatest joy is to descend from her little spit of land to the sea, where the whales gather each morning, gaily spouting rainbows. Then, one day, she finds a man in the mist where a whale should be: Reu, who has tak...(展开全部)