一百多年前，一個十三歲的男孩在巴塞隆納的二手樂譜店發現一本被世人遺忘的樂譜──巴哈大提琴獨奏組曲（即無伴奏大提琴組曲），他帶回家苦練多年後公開演奏，豔驚了世人，那位男孩就是西班牙著名大提琴家卡薩爾斯（Pablo Casals，1876-1973），對20世紀大提琴演奏影響最鉅的人，開創大提琴獨奏的輝煌時代。《西班牙琴弓》以這位音樂家的事蹟為藍本，小說中化名為菲利武‧德拉哥，描寫他一生高潮迭起的音樂生涯，以及他如何堅守信念反對西班牙極權政府而自我放逐國外。
19 世紀末、20 世紀初的西班牙，在曾經輝煌的帝國逐漸沒落時，菲利武結識了鋼琴怪傑阿爾－賽拉茲，隨著西班牙內戰爆發，兩位音樂家大相逕庭的藝術目標和政治傾向使他們幾乎分道揚鑣，然而義大利女小提琴家艾璧華的出現改變了他們的命運，三人在音樂、理念、生活和情感上不可分離地糾纏在一起，他們一步步走向生涯中最危險的聯合演出……
小說中的角色人名、年代和情節皆虛實交錯，取材自真實人物的包括軍事狂人希特勒與佛朗哥、西班牙國王阿方索十三世和王后伊娜、畫家畢卡索等，作者企圖擺脫真實歷史的束縛，讓真實與虛構交織出這部充滿音樂韻律和戲劇張力的故事，正如卡薩爾斯發現巴哈的無伴奏大提琴組曲後企圖從中尋找自我啟發，而以自己的時空感受來詮釋出古典的美，小說家亦將卡薩爾斯的生平以我們這個時代的時空意義演繹出動人的故事。

尤卡·尤基莱托所著的《建筑保护史》是当之无愧的关于建筑保护发展历史的经典著作。作者尤卡·尤基莱托教授是当今世界最著名的文化遗产保护史学家和哲学家之一，他很早就投身建筑规划和保护行业，因通晓多种语言，如英语、法语、德语、意大利语、瑞典语、芬兰语等，故而在建筑保护领域具有难 以比拟的优势。《建筑保护史》是他二十多年的经验与思索的总结，对世界主要是西方建筑保护的发展历程做出了全面介绍，并指出这种发展如何影响了国际文化遗产保护活动。书中包含大量的保护案例和系统丰富的史料，这些资料即便是专业人士都很难积累获得，遑论一般读者，因此可作为所有希望更好地了解建筑历史的人士的必读著作。

《时尚的哲学》是西美尔的文集，他的一贯主题、断片风格、暧昧行话、理论气质和哲学性情，在书中都展露无遗。

赫尔曼·黑塞（1877-1962），德国作家，1946年获得诺贝尔文学奖。《在轮下》是作者的早期作品。
小说叙述的故事是：主人公汉斯自幼聪颖过人，勤奋好学，被大家视为神童。他被送入一个神学院学习，受大家庭和社会的影响，他功名心切，在与世隔绝的学校里拼命学习，没有半点空闲，身心健康受到损害。同学赫尔曼生性倔强，蔑视功名，为学校不容；而汉斯觉得只有赫尔曼才是知己。汉斯用功过度，身体衰弱，成绩倒退；学校把这些归罪于赫尔曼。赫尔曼被学校开除，汉斯更感孤单，不时受到老师的训斥和同学的耻笑，之后得了神经衰弱症，使他无法继续学业，只得返回家乡当钳工为生。社会的歧视和生活的失意使他觉得仿佛跌在无情而庞大的车轮下。
这是一部控诉德国旧的教育制度的小说，被认为有浓厚的自传色彩。

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business.
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.
Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses.
What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.
With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs they hate, victims of "downsizing," and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages.

Many students encounter difficulty going from high school math to college-level mathematics. Even if they do well at math in school, most students are knocked off course for a while by the shift in emphasis from the K-12 focus on mastering procedures to the “mathematical thinking” characteristic of much university mathematics. Though the majority survive the transition, many do not. This short book is written to help them make that crucial shift.
Mathematicial thinking is not the same as “doing math” — unless you are a professional mathematician. For most people, “doing math” means the application of procedures and symbolic manipulations. Mathematicial thinking, in contrast, is what the name reflects, a specific way of thinking about things in the world that humans have developed over three thousand years. It does not have to be about mathematics at all, which means that many people can benefits from learning this powerful way of thinking, not just mathematicians and scientists.
You won't learn much new mathematics from this book. But by acquiring the ability to think like a mathematician, you will be able to master new mathematics quickly, whenever you need it.

《数学在19世纪的发展(第1卷)》是F．克莱因的名著，其内容是作者在临终前一两年给部分同事所作的讲演，而由他的学生们编辑成书。书十介绍了数学科学在19世纪的发展。在本卷(第一卷)非常详尽且有批判性地分析了高斯、黎曼、魏尔斯特拉斯、柯西、伽罗瓦等一大批最重要的数学家的数学思想和贡献；也介绍了一大批物理学(特别是数学物理学)大师如开尔文、麦克斯韦、亥姆霍兹的思想和业绩；并详细讨论了一些最重要的数学分支(函数论、射影几何、代数几何等)的缘起和前景。
《数学在19世纪的发展(第1卷)》适合从事数学的研究和教学的大学水平以上的学生和教师学习参考，也适合研究科学史、数学史和关心、研究一般的科学思想文化发展的读者阅读。

The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of materials.In this book, Didier Sornette boldly applies his varied experience in these areas to propose a simple, powerful, and general theory of how, why, and when stock markets crash. Most attempts to explain market failures seek to pinpoint triggering mechanisms that occur hours, days, or weeks before the collapse. Sornette proposes a radically different view: the underlying cause can be sought months and even years before the abrupt, catastrophic event in the build-up of cooperative speculation, which often translates into an accelerating rise of the market price, otherwise known as a "bubble." Anchoring his sophisticated, step-by-step analysis in leading-edge physical and statistical modeling techniques, he unearths remarkable insights and some predictions - among them, that the "end of the growth era" will occur around 2050.Sornette probes major historical precedents, from the decades-long "tulip mania" in the Netherlands that wilted suddenly in 1637 to the South Sea Bubble that ended with the first huge market crash in England in 1720, to the Great Crash of October 1929 and Black Monday in 1987, to cite just a few. He concludes that most explanations other than cooperative self-organization fail to account for the subtle bubbles by which the markets lay the groundwork for catastrophe. Any investor or investment professional who seeks a genuine understanding of looming financial disasters should read this book. Physicists, geologists, biologists, economists, and others will welcome "Why Stock Markets Crash" as a highly original "scientific tale," as Sornette aptly puts it, of the exciting and sometimes fearsome - but no longer quite so unfathomable - world of stock markets.