Fisher was one of America’s greatest mathematical economists. This book is still used a textbook and is an outstanding example of clearly written economic theory.

《利息理论》一书是美国著名经济学家欧文·费雪（1867—1947）的代表作之一。该书共有四篇，第一篇简要概述了资本和收入的性质问题，第二篇主要用文字来表述利息理论，第三篇中借助数学手段来解释利息理论，第四篇综合论述了利息在经济学中的地位、利息率与发现和发明的关系、利息与货币和物价的关系等等问题。在书中，费雪围绕“人性不耐”与“投资机会”两个方面展开分析和论述，他认为，人性不耐与投资机会是决定利息的两个基本因素，它们是两种相反的力量，在它们的作用下，利率最终趋向于平衡的一点。该书逻辑严谨，表述清晰易懂，是研究利息和货币问题的必读书目。

“如果不清楚萨根的背景，你很难想到这本书出自一位行星天文学家之手。本书并非着意于传达生物学知识，而是在现有发现的基础上对智力的过去与未来进行推测，并探讨梦境、睡眠、多种文明共有的龙的传说、模糊而强烈的本能恐惧等事物的起源。也许，我们早餐吃煎蛋的习惯也与进化史上千万年前的事件有着某种关联。”——www.oursci.org

《寡居的一年》以委婉的叙述方式剥开了爱的各个复杂层面，直达其最神秘、最黑暗的深层角落……纽约州东汉普顿的海滩上，这个夏天之于着名的儿童读物作家泰德·科尔亦或他美丽的妻子玛丽恩来说，都是生命中最为不平凡的一段时光。俩人也曾拥有甜蜜幸福的时光，却因为十几年前突如其来的惨剧而彻底粉碎--那场车祸中，他们失去了两个儿子。十年蹉跎，两人虽然表面上恩爱如昔，婚姻已名存实亡。现在，他们惟一能够达成共识的就是对聪明可爱的小女儿罗丝不可逆转的爱。本来，科尔一家虽然不幸，却在情感上达成了某种程度的平衡共同维系着这个家，可是泰德的不忠却打破了这一平衡……然后，埃迪·奥海尔出现了。
泰德表面上雇用埃迪作为自己的助手，实则希望他可以成为自己和妻子所面对难堪的婚姻关系的催化剂。可以说，埃迪一直将泰德视为自己的偶像。然而泰德不稳定甚至古怪的工作习惯很快使得满怀热情的埃迪整日无所事事--他开始将心思花在风韵犹存、引人无限遐想的女主人身上；反之，只有16岁的埃迪也重燃了玛丽恩作为一个母亲乃至一个女人的热情。在与玛丽恩肉体纠缠的同时，埃迪却渐渐意识到，泰德看似无能的外表背后实则隐藏着某些更为深层的晦涩……夏天在慢慢消逝，玛丽恩和泰德都需要为自己的未来重新选择生活。 ps.blind assassin
书评：
令人惊异的丰富与原创性，《寡居的一年》是欲振乏力的二十世纪末小说中罕见的佳作，当读者将离开这个深邃而精细的想像世界时，都将感到难舍难离。——斯蒂芬·金
一本让人震撼、令人感动的小说，将旧式与新式的叙述技巧完美地熔于一炉。——《纽约时报》
具有深层的魅力……《寡居的一年》的丰富与美丽具有多样性，享受它是人生的乐趣之一。 ——《洛杉矶时报》
《寡居的一年》具有聪颖的写作技巧，是一本徘徊不散的悲伤，我们很容易将自我投射于主角的家庭故事。欧文是当今少数能用近乎反讽与幽默手法写作忧伤的作家。 ——《今日美国》
《寡居的一年》提供了其他作家同类型小说无法提供的阅读乐趣。 ——《达拉斯晨报》
欧文的颠峰之作……有令人狂喜的角色、令人着迷不已故事。 ——《时代周刊》

Her topics range from the neurotic need for affection, to guilt feelings and the quest for power, prestige and possession.

美国是如何成功的？本书回答的是这样一个问题。本书以1890－1900的美国为视角，回溯到历史的“原点”来看待其从一个地区性的大国向全球性大国转变的阶段。从世界性帝国崛起的角度来看，这一最佳“原点”，即1890—1900年。这一阶段以美国西部边疆的“关闭”为开头，以“门户开放”照会为结尾，这一“关”一“开”之间正好是美国从大陆扩张向海外扩张的转型期，也是一个不同于以往任何帝国形态的新型帝国的定型期。
正是在这样的扩张思路下，美国作为一个超大国家，成功地在大国林立的世界上规避矛盾、厚积实力，特别是有效地避免了和英国之间的矛盾升级。全书最终落脚于“超大国家的扩张”这一主题，侧重从美国的这一案例中提出具有普遍性的启示。

《自然的边疆:北美西部开发中人与环境关系的变迁》讲述了北美西部开发是几千年来人与自然关系的一个缩影。《自然的边疆:北美西部开发中人与环境关系的变迁》从指导北美人向西部进发的自然观念入手，考察了在以征服自然为特征的机械主义自然观的指导下，美国和加拿大西部开发所造成的资源浪费、环境破坏等问题，并进一步探讨了由此所引发的北美人自然观念的转变以及环境保护主义的兴起等问题。

论自然
美国的学者
在神学院的演说
自我依靠论
诗人
经验

作者进行的是专业视角的“公共话语”表述，主要涉及对世界历史文化名城保护历史的叙述，尤其是20世纪现代观念主导下的城市再造历史反思，认为20世纪是对历史名都进行大规模“破坏”的世纪，其中罗马的历史、经验与教训最值得强调和总结。也就是说目前在世界范围内进行的现代化，甚至现代城市保护运动，在许多方面实际上是在破坏这些历史城市的历史资源，而城市的更新实在是一项异常艰巨的工作，所谓成功的发达国家，也没有“成功”的经验。
全书分“保护伦理的觉醒”、“城市中保护的文化”和“保护伦理的扩展”三个部分，分别从现代都市保护理念产生的历史、现状分析和成功个案分析等角度，对22座世界著名历史城市进行了多视角、全方位的观察和研究。

Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed." The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent: My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets.

Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. "The Complete Poems" includes the books "North and South," "A Cold Spring," "Questions of Travel," and "Geography III," as well as previously uncollected poems, translations, and juvenilia.

This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains: - andquot; Harmoniumandquot; - andquot; Ideas of Orderandquot; - andquot; The Man With the Blue Guitarandquot; - andquot; Parts of the Worldandquot; - andquot; Transport Summerandquot; - andquot; The Auroras of Autumnandquot; - andquot; The Rockandquot;

《二十世纪美国法律史》是美国著名法学家弗里德曼教授一本重要的著作。在法律史上也享有重要地位。作者从不同的学科领域对20世纪美国的法律制度进行了梳理和阐释，该书出版后，在美国法学界产生了重要影响，是研究美国法律的重要参考书，该书的出版和引进，将为国内读者打开一扇全面了解美国法律制度和法律文化之窗。

《西方世界：碰撞与转型》以一篇引人注目的文章“西方是什么？”开启全书，为我们理解西方文明提供了一个框架，同时也为我们展现了文化碰撞的价值和重要性。探讨了由发生于西方世界内外部的一系列不同信仰、观念、技术及人群之间的“碰撞”所导致的西方世界处在不断变化中的“定义”和“身份”。作者通过详述政治、社会、宗教以及历史文化等领域在以往不同历史时期所发生的变化来考察西方的这些碰撞和变化。

本书讲述的是下面的历史：曾经有一种称做“西方的”文明；这种文明发展出了独特的“法律的”制度、价值和概念；这些西方的法律制度、价值和概念被有意识地世代相传数个世纪，由此而开始形成一种“传统”；西方法律传统产生于一次“革命”，它在后来数个世纪的过程中被革命周期性地打断和改造；在20世纪，西方法律传统的革命危机比历史上任何其他时期都要大，某些人相信这种危机实质上已导致了这种传统的终结。

统治美国的，是那些创造了巨额财富的机构的所有者和高管。由公司法律顾问、军事承包商、农业工商业主以及大公司领导者所组成的企业共同体支配了联邦政府。本书为人们了解美国的社会上层阶级和企业共同体提供了丰富的经验事实，而且接续了韦伯、马克思、米尔斯等人的研究传统，从而发展出一套既从组织维度出发，又强调阶级支配和阶级冲突的“权力结构研究”范式，在精英研究中自成派。尽管40年来围绕本书引发了广泛的争议，但几乎所有从事“精英研究”的社会科学家都认可本书为该领域的经典之作。

Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?
In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.
In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish.
Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.

The Art of the Piano is a feature-length, 106-minute documentary that presents in refreshingly straightforward fashion a portrait of 20th-century piano playing. The format is simple: short segments on virtually all of the great pianists who have ever been captured on film, augmented by extracts from interviews, sometimes with the pianists themselves, or with later conductors and musicians of international stature, including specially filmed contributions from Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Evgeny Kissin, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, and Tamás Vásáry. The narration by John Tusa offers an overview of piano music through the century, though the heart of the film is the great quantity of rare archive historic footage, with extracts from performances by Gould, Horowitz, Paderwski, Rachmaninoff, Richter, Rubinstein, and many others. The interviews are short, but offer considerable insight, while the film of so many revered pianists brought together is a literal eye-opener, especially for those who have previously only known these masters from LP and CD. This is, like the companion program The Art of Singing, as close to definitive as a single film can get, even going so far as to include footage from the "silent" era with sound from corresponding recordings. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk