A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers. "Where Europe Begins" presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada's work blurs divisions between fact and f...(展开全部)

A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers. "Where Europe Begins" presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada's work blurs divisions between fact and f...(展开全部)

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game. That moment was more than a century in the making, and in this breakthrough book, Kasparov reveals his astonish...(展开全部)

In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was a watershed moment in the history of technology: machine intelligence had arrived at the point where it could best human intellect.It wasn't a coincidence that Kasparov became the symbol of man's fight against the m...(展开全部)

Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters. The hardest part of research isn’t answering a question. It’s knowing what to do before you know what your question is. Where Research Begins tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: How do I find a compelling prob...(展开全部)

An eminent historian offers a sweeping look at Europe’s tumultuous twentieth century, showing how the rejection of violence after World War II transformed a continent In the last decade we’ve seen an ever-widening rift between the United States and Europe, most visibly over Iraq. But as James J. Sheehan reminds us in his timely book, it wasn’t always thus. How did America and ...(展开全部)

美国斯坦福大学迪卡森人文学教授、历史学教授，美国历史学会前主席。专注于德国和现代欧洲史。著有多部关于德国历史、现代欧洲的书籍。

西蒙•范•布伊 （Simon Van Booy，1975— ） ，英国小说家，出生于伦敦，在威尔士乡村和牛津长大。在美国经由一位英语教授介绍，爱上了惠特曼、爱默生等美国诗人的作品，并在另一位英语教授的鼓励下写诗和创作短篇小说。后来回到英国，辗转几所大学，获得MFA学 位。 已出版三本短篇小说集：出版于 二○○七年的《黑暗中的绽放》是他令人惊艳的处女作；出版于二○○九年的《爱，始于冬季》为他赢得弗兰克•奥康纳国际短篇小说奖；二○一五年，又出版了《偶然天才故事集》。他也创作长篇小说：二○一一年出版了《美，始于怀念》，二○一三年出版了《分离的幻象》。最新的作品是二○一七年出版的《父亲节》。 目前定居纽约布鲁克林。

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up ...(展开全部)

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up ...(展开全部)