Greene takes the reader to the leading edge of thinking in some of the most exciting areas of theoretical physics. And, importantly, he does not try to blind the reader with whiz-bang declarations or to mislead by giving only one perspective on topics that are highly controversial. Greene explains, in plain English, why scientists are considering some pretty far-out sounding possibilities (other universes!), how these ideas might be tested, and why other scientists are fully opposed to such investigations. Greene makes his perspective clear (that some, not all, of these ideas can fall within the heart of science but that only experimental evidence can really make the case) while giving the reader ample room to come to his or her own conclusions.

With the computer age arriving a century ahead of its time--during the Industrial Revolution--politician's daughter Sybil, explorer and paleontologist Edward, and diplomat and spy Laurence race toward a rendezvous with history. Reprint. NYT.

This book covers the field of machine learning, which is the study of algorithms that allow computer programs to automatically improve through experience. The book is intended to support upper level undergraduate and introductory level graduate courses in machine learning.

One of the best short story collections of the last ten years, back in print in a new edition.

George Soros is a legend in the world of finance, a man whose name is known from Wall Street to Wuhan, from Manchester to Moscow, from Brussels to Bangkok. His Quantum Fund has been the best-performing investment fund in history and his foundations have helped reshape the post-Cold War world. Now Soros applies all of his wisdom, expertise and insight to explain what's happening in the collapsing global economy. The result is a brilliant work of profound importance, a startling critique of what's gone wrong and an inspiring vision of how it can be fixed.
In THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM, Soros dissects the current crisis and economic theory in general, revealing how theoretical assumptions have combined with human behavior to lead to today's mess. He shows how unquestioning faith in market forces blinds us to crucial instabilities, and how those instabilities have chain-reacted to cause the current crisis-a crisis that has the potential to get much, much worse. But there is a way out, and it involves embracing the concept of the open society. And by doing so we can save not only our financial system, but also our civilization.

外国商人，晚清时称之为洋商。洋商在上海的贸易活动，远可追溯至唐天宝十年（公元751年），即使从清道光二十三年（1843年）上海开埠算起，他们在上海的贸易活动也长达160余年；其历史可谓源远流长。但由于解放后几十年我国对外经济贸易没有提到应有的地位，导致对洋商研究很冷落，不但研究者寥寥，研究成果也不多。
20世纪90年代，随着国家对外开放的不断发展和加入世贸组织，对外经济贸易在国民经济中的地位越来越重要。因之在经济、金融、贸易领域，与外商来往频繁，开始引起了研究者的关注，并把对洋商的研究提升为重要课题。
“以史为鉴，可以知得失。”系统、深入地研究上海开埠以来的涉外经济史，可以为推进上海对外开放，进一步发展上海的外向型经济，起到很好的借鉴作用。为此我们从2002年开始编写本书，历时六年，于2007年定稿付梓。全书约100万字，分9篇37章141节（另附录3篇），插图150幅，附表142份，较完整地勾画了上海洋商百年的发展轨迹。
《洋商史》系在我主持编写的《上海对外经济贸易志》过程中，积累3000余万字的资料，2100幅历史图照的基础上，又从外贸系统搜集了大量的中外文洋商史料，本书的编撰工作可谓集众人之智慧。《洋商史》所描述的从上海洋商企业的起源到上海解放后洋商企业的逐渐消失；从上海洋商开设进出口贸易洋行起始，发展到创办涵盖各行各业的工业、商业、航运业、公共事业、文化事业；其时间跨度之长，洋商企业行业之齐全，内容之系统、全面，资料之翔实，图片之稀有，可以说是弥足珍贵。上海是近代中国的窗口，在与洋商的交往中，是中国的缩影，从这个意义上讲，本书是中国第一部完整的洋商史。它的问世，我想对中国对外贸易史、中国近代史，以及外交史的研究，都是有所裨益的。

A thrilling drama of man versus nature—detailing the fierce, ongoing fight against the mightiest and unlikeliest enemy: rust.
It has been called “the great destroyer” and “the evil.” The Pentagon refers to it as “the pervasive menace.” It destroys cars, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks house fires, and nearly brought down the Statue of Liberty. Rust costs America more than $400 billion per year—more than all other natural disasters combined.
In Rust, journalist Jonathan Waldman travels from Key West, Florida, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to meet the colorful and often reclusive people concerned with corrosion. He sneaks into an abandoned steelworks with a brave artist and nearly gets kicked out of Can School. Across the Arctic, he follows a massive high-tech robot, hunting for rust in the Alaska pipeline. On a Florida film set he meets the Defense Department’s rust ambassador, who reveals that the navy’s number one foe isn’t a foreign country but oxidation itself. At Home Depot’s mothership in Atlanta, he hunts unsuccessfully for rust products with the store’s rust products buyer—and then tracks down some snake-oil salesmen whose potions are not for sale at The Rust Store. Along the way, Waldman encounters flying pigs, Trekkies, decapitations, exploding Coke cans, rust boogers, and nerdy superheroes.
The result is a fresh and often funny account of an overlooked engineering endeavor that is as compelling as it is grand, illuminating a hidden phenomenon that shapes the modern world. Rust affects everything from the design of our currency to the composition of our tap water, and it will determine the legacy we leave on this planet. This exploration of corrosion, and the incredible lengths we go to fight it, is narrative nonfiction at its very best—a fascinating and important subject, delivered with energy and wit.

One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country—a fascinating and gripping narrative featuring such outsized American heroes as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and yes Herbert Hoover, and a gallery of criminals (Al Capone), eccentrics (Shipwreck Kelly), and close-mouthed politicians (Calvin Coolidge). It was the year Americans attempted and accomplished outsized things and came of age in a big, brawling manner. What a country. What a summer. And what a writer to bring it all so vividly alive for us on the page in this certain bestseller.

"Technical and Military Imperatives: A Radar History of World War II" is a coherent account of the history of radar in the second World War. Although many books have been written on the early days of radar and its role in the war, this book is by far the most comprehensive, covering ground, air, and sea operations in all theaters of World War II. The author manages to synthesize a vast amount of material in a highly readable, informative, and enjoyable way. Of special interest is extensive new material about the development and use of radar by Germany, Japan, Russia, and Great British. The story is told without undue technical complexity, so that the book is accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike.