One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only just met . . . A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career . . . A young cellist whose tutor promises to “unwrap” his talent . . .
Passion or necessity—or the often uneasy combination of the two—determines the place of music in each of these lives. And, in one way or another, music delivers each of them to a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp.
An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed works of fiction.
From the Hardcover edition.

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.

三○年代末的英格蘭，一個舉國知名的私家偵探克裡斯多夫‧班克斯。他偵辦的案件是倫敦上流社會最熱中談論的傳奇，但他始終念念不忘的，卻是兒時在上海租界離奇失蹤的雙親。此刻，黃埔灘頭已然烽火漫天，但他知道，他必須回到上海解開這個謎。這一次，逝去的童年，失蹤的雙親，他要一起尋回。
石黑一雄以他細膩的筆觸、優雅的書寫，刻畫大戰之前，童年時期的克裡斯多夫在上海公共租界與日本幼童秋良的深摯情誼。隨著克裡斯多夫的父母相繼失蹤，他被送回英國，小說的場景也拉到英國的上流社會，最終又隨著主角回到中國，撥開重重迷霧，探尋失落在記憶裡的上海、童年，尋訪他的童年玩伴以及他摯愛的雙親。
童年、回憶、愛情、正義……是克裡斯多夫生命的背景，但他的命運「是以孤兒的眼光看待世界，長年追逐著父母消逝的暗影。……只有盡全力把使命完成，在此之前，別無解脫之途，心中無法得到片刻的寧靜。」戰火連綿的上海，記憶的幻影與現實交錯。當謎團撥除，當真實浮現，面對生命需要更大的勇氣。

If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. Ayer was only 24 when he finished LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC, yet it shook the foundations of Anglo-American philosophy and made its author notorious. It became a classic text, cleared away the cobwebs in philosophical thinking, and has been enormously influential.

Roget's International Thesaurus ® is the ultimate cure for tip-of-the-tongue-itis. Easy To Use: Unlike alphabetical thesauruses, Roget's International Thesaurus ® works the same way your brain does. First, you figure out the general category: Are you looking for a word related to values and ideals? Measure and shape? Then, look up the keywords to find the exact entry you're seeking. Plus, thousands of cross-references throughout lead to other helpful categories. Comprehensive: More than 325,000 words and phrases in 1,072 categories compose this new edition of Roget's , including the newest slang words and expressions. In addition, hundreds of supplemental word lists supply the names of things that have no synonyms (wines, weapons, animals, state mottoes, and more). Better Than The Rest: Just look at how a single entry lines up: Roget's International Thesaurus ®
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Wealthy adj syn rich I, affluent, moneyed || oofy, opulent con impoverished, penniless, poor ant indigent Random House Webster's College Thesaurus
Wealthy adj. The debutante comes from a very wealthy family: rich, prosperous, affluent, moneyed, well-to-do, well-off, well-heeled, well-fixed, flush, loaded. Roget's II The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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This classic work is here published for the first time in paperback in recognition of its enduring importance. Its theme is Modality: human experience recognized as a variety of independent, self-consistent worlds of discourse, each the invention of human intelligence, but each also to be understood as abstract and an arrest in human experience. The theme is pursued in a consideration of the practical, the historical and the scientific modes of understanding.

Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had planned to leave. How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.

作者珍．莫里斯在第二次世界大戰將近結束時第一次來到威尼斯，當時它仍然流露出奇特的孤立感和疏離；這也是威尼斯在歐洲數世紀以來如此獨特的原因。威尼斯是一個一半歡樂，一半憂鬱的城市，但卻不是為眼前的不安憂鬱，而是為古老的遺憾。作者因為熱愛威尼斯的感傷和浮華；喜歡它造就過去帝國輝煌那種徘徊不去的蔑視；它特性中主要的歲月和腐敗的味道；於是她一再重返威尼斯，並記錄下她對威尼斯的熱愛與威尼斯過往的輝煌。作者簡介
珍．莫里斯（Jan Morris）
（撰寫此書時，名為詹姆斯．艾里斯）是英國威爾斯人，她的一生分為兩個主要時期，一為她在北威爾斯的書房、她在南威爾斯黑山（Black Mountains）的鄉間住宅，以及其後在旅居國外。她曾寫過以威尼斯海外帝國和威尼斯動物生活的書籍，除了有關大英帝國的《大英和平》（Pax Britannica）三部曲，還有關於牛津、曼哈頓、雪梨、香港、西班牙和威爾斯的記述，加上二本自傳式著作、六冊旅遊散文集和小說《哈弗最後的來信》（Last letters from Hav）；後者曾列入英國布克文學獎（Booker Prize）候選作品。她編輯過《Oxford Book of Oxford》和維吉妮亞?吳爾芙（Virginai Woolf）的旅行寫作。她同時為威爾斯大學榮譽文學博士。

Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That's not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent. Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War with the Soviets. You can be fairly sure a lot more Iranians do. Or what about the time we arrived with elephants to invade Ethiopia? Every summer, hordes of British tourists now occupy Corfu and the other Ionian islands. Find out how we first invaded them armed with cannon instead of camera and set up the United States of the Ionian Islands. Think the Philippines have always been outside our zone of influence? Think again. Read the surprising story of our eighteenth-century occupation of Manila and how we demanded a ransom of millions of dollars for the city. This book takes a look at some of the truly awe-inspiring ways our country has been a force, for good and for bad, right across the world. A lot of people are vaguely aware that a quarter of the globe was once pink, but that's not even half the story. We're a stroppy, dynamic, irrepressible nation and this is how we changed the world, often when it didn't ask to be changed!

How can we best understand the impact of revolutionary technologies on the business cycle, the economy, and society? Why is economics meaningless without history and without an understanding of institutional and technical change? Does the 'new economy' mean the 'end of history'? These are some of the questions addressed in this authoritative analysis of economic growth from the Industrial Revolution to the 'new economy' of today. Chris Freeman has been one of the foremost researchers on innovation for a long time and his colleague Francisco Louca is an outstanding historian of economic theory and an analyst of econometric models and methods. Together they chart the history of five technological revolutions: water-powered mechanization, steam-powered mechanization, electrification, motorization, and computerization. They demonstrate the necessity to take account of politics, culture, organizational change, and entrepreneurship, as well as science and technology in the analysis of economic growth. This is a well-informed, highly topical, and persuasive study of interest across all the social sciences.

Named one of the greatest minds of the 20th century by Time , Tim Berners-Lee is responsible for one of that century's most important advancements: the world wide web. Now, this low-profile genius-who never personally profitted from his invention -offers a compelling protrait of his invention. He reveals the Web's origins and the creation of the now ubiquitous http and www acronyms and shares his views on such critical issues as censorship, privacy, the increasing power of softeware companies , and the need to find the ideal balance between commercial and social forces. He offers insights into the true nature of the Web, showing readers how to use it to its fullest advantage. And he presents his own plan for the Web's future, calling for the active support and participation of programmers, computer manufacturers, and social organizations to manage and maintain this valuable resource so that it can remain a powerful force for social change and an outlet for individual creativity.

丹宁勋爵对法律改革的贡献主要在英国，但他的思想的影响却不仅仅局限于英国。这些思想是现代社会发展的产物，因此为不少西方发达国家特别是英美法系国家的法学家所重视。虽然我国的法律和西方资本主义国家的法律有着本质的区别，但这种区别并不妨碍我们吸收和借鉴西方法学家提出的一些进步的思想。因此，研究丹宁的法学著作及其法学思想，对于完善我国的法制建设同样是有所帮助的。因此，我根据The Oxford Companion to Law（1980）（《牛津法律指南》）和《牛津法律词典》（上海翻译出版公司1991年版）等较权威的资料对一些法律专有名词和历史人物加了注释。希望能对读者有所帮助。

This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid development of the British economy during the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Joel Mokyr shows that we cannot understand the Industrial Revolution without recognizing the importance of the intellectual sea changes of Britain’s Age of Enlightenment. In a vigorous discussion, Mokyr goes beyond the standard explanations that creditgeographical factors, the role of markets, politics, and society to show that the beginnings of modern economic growth in Britain depended a great deal on what key players knew and believed, and how those beliefs affected their economic behavior. He argues that Britain led the rest of Europe into the Industrial Revolution because it was there that the optimal intersection of ideas, culture, institutions, and technology existed to make rapid economic growth achievable. His wide-ranging evidence covers sectors of the British economy often neglected, such as the service industries.

突然之间，人们就对字体着了迷。
从无处不在的 Helvetica，到爱恨交织的 Comic Sans；
从与世长存的 Baskerville，到昙花一现的 2010 Headline；
从披头士字母 T，到莉莉·艾伦的字母 L；
从 IBM 的打字「高尔夫球」，到孩子们 的「约翰牛印字套装」；
从古登堡的第一款字体 Texura，到乔布斯的第一台 Macintosh。
这些故事传奇，《字体故事》都将为您一一呈现。
这几乎是第一次，我们将西文字体的故事完整地引入到中文世界。在书中，我们努力将这些西文字体的美丽之处呈现给您。同时，我们对中文字体排印的努力也未曾松懈，书中的排印也有些许与众不同之处。
本书所使用字体均由「方正字库」正式授权。
TIB（Type is Beautiful）对本书的制作也给予了帮助与支持。

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other side of the pond, and is obviously having a little trouble finding his true American self again. After vigorous exercise on the Appalachian Trail comes this edited collection of Bryson’s most splenetic comic pieces culled from his humorous regular column in the Mail on Sunday.

罗宾逊夫人是经济学史上第一位卓越的女性经济学家，新剑桥学派最著名的代表人物和实际领袖，在经济学理论发展史上，她做出过多次革命性创新，《经济哲学》即为其代表作者之一。本书初版于1962年，由罗宾逊夫人在英国伯明翰大学的系列讲稿整理而成，从意识形态角度检讨从斯密到马克思以至新古典经济学的自由放任基本原理。

On Human Conduct is composed of three connected essays. Each has its own concern: the first with theoretical understanding, and with human conduct in general; the second with an ideal mode of human relationship which the author has called civil association; and the third with that ambiguous, historic association commonly called a modern European state. Running through the work is Professor Oakshott's belief in philosophical reflection as an adventure: the adventure of one who seeks to understand in other terms what he already understands, and where the understanding is sought is a disclosure of the conditions of the understanding enjoyed and not a substitute for it. Its most appropriate expression is an essay, which, he writes, 'does not dissemble the conditionality of the conclusions it throws up and although it may enlighten it does not instruct.'