The most successful British television drama of our time, the multi-award-winning Downton Abbey has become a national phenomenon in the U.S. as well. Created by Julian Fellowes—who received an Academy Award for his screenplay for the acclaimed Robert Altman motion picture, Gosford Park—Downton Abbey features stellar performances, ravishing sets and costumes, and, most importantly, absolutely riveting plots. Now the scripts for the entire first season have been collected in one volume, along with never before seen material, incisive commentary, and color photos that will completely immerse fans in the world of Downton Abbey.

《胡适英文文存》系列结集了胡适于20世纪20年代左右到60年代初之间撰写的英文文章或英文演讲，它们大多都曾发表于颇具影响的英文刊物上，并对当时的中国社会产生过重大影响。按主题分编为《中国文学与社会》、《中国哲学与思想史》和《民族危机与公共外交》三册，由普林斯顿大学东亚系教授周质平选编。
《胡适英文作品集（一）中国文学与社会》结集胡适自1914年到1961年前后的重要英文论文及演讲28篇。全书横向以主题分类，可见胡适在这两方面主要的论点和贡献，纵向以发表时间为序编排，可见胡适于这两方面思想发展的脉络。本书以胡适发表时的原文影印本为底本，经仔细查证和勘误，旨在让中外读者更加了解胡适向世界介绍中国文化的传统及其近现代发展方面发挥的作用。

Salmonella ...toxins ...additives ...food scares ...Have you ever wondered how our food has become so untrustworthy? Have we ever been able to trust what we eat? Via a fascinating mix of food politics, history and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many methods by which swindlers have tampered with our food throughout history. From the leaded wine of ancient Rome to the food piracy of the twenty-first century we see the extraordinary ways food has been padded, poisoned, spiked, coloured, substituted, faked and mislabelled everywhere it has been sold. Bee Wilson reveals the strong historical currents which enable the fraudsters to flourish; the battle of the science of deception against the science of detection; the struggle to establish reliable standards. She also suggests some small ways in which we can all protect ourselves from swindles and learn to trust what we eat again.

這是一部中國通史，因用大學教科書體例寫成，不得不力求簡要，僅舉大納，刪其瑣節。內容於學術思想，政治制度，社會風氣，國際形勢，兼有顧及，惟但求其通為一體，明其治亂盛衰之所由，聞其一貫相承之為統，以指陳吾國家民族生命精神之所寄。至其人物之詳，事業之備，則待教者讀者之自加參考，自為引伸。本書主旨則在發明其相互影響，及先後之演變發展，以作國人如何應付現時代之種種事變作根據之借鑒。

对日本人而言，直到1952年美国占领期结束，第二次世界大战才真正结束，而战争年代、战败以及被占领时期，给亲历者留下了难以磨灭的印迹。作者试图通过还原社会各阶层民众的声音获取一种认知，即在一个毁灭的世界里重新开始，到底意味着什么。无论日本这个国家后来变得多么富裕，多年来这些残留的记忆，已经成为他们思考国家历史与个人价值观的重要参照。

《古文观止》是清康熙年间吴乘权、吴大职编选的一部古文读本，凡十二卷，收录自先秦至明末的散文二百二十二篇，每篇都有注释和评论。据《左传》襄公二十九年记载，吴公子季札在鲁国观看乐舞《韶�》时，以为尽善尽美，无以复加，赞叹道：“观止矣：若有他乐吾不敢请已！”本书书名中“观止”二字即由此而来，是表示所选的古文极好，堪称最佳读本。

The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time.

This incredibly useful guide book to mathematics contains the fundamental working knowledge of mathematics which is needed as an everyday guide for working scientists and engineers, as well as for students. Now in its fifth updated edition, it is easy to understand, and convenient to use. Inside you'll find the information necessary to evaluate most problems which occur in concrete applications. In the newer editions emphasis was laid on those fields of mathematics that became more important for the formulation and modeling of technical and natural processes. For the 5th edition, the chapters "Computer Algebra Systems" and "Dynamical Systems and Chaos" have been revised, updated and expanded.

《数学名著译丛：普林斯顿数学指南（第1卷）》是由Fields奖得主T.Gowers主编、133位著名数学家共同参与撰写的大型文集，全书由288篇长篇论文和短篇条目构成，目的是对20世纪最后一二十年纯粹数学的发展给出一个概览，以帮助青年数学家学习和研究其最活跃的部分，这些论文和条目都可以独立阅读，原书有八个部分，除第1部分是一个简短的引论、第Ⅷ部分是全书的“终曲”以外，全书分为三大板块，核心是第Ⅳ部分“数学的各个分支”，共26篇长文，介绍了20世纪最后一二十年纯粹数学研究中最重要的成果和最活跃的领域，第Ⅲ部分“数学概念”和第V部分“定理与问题”都是为它服务的短条目，第二个板块是数学的历史，由第Ⅱ部分“现代数学的起源”（共7篇长文）和第Ⅵ部分“数学家传记”（96位数学家的短篇传记）组成，第三个板块是数学的应用，即第Ⅶ部分“数学的影响”（14篇长文章）。作为全书“终曲”的第Ⅷ部分“结束语：一些看法”则是对青年数学家的建议等7篇文章。
中译本分为三卷，第一卷包括第I-Ⅲ部分，第二卷即第Ⅳ部分，第三卷包括第V～Ⅷ部分。
《数学名著译丛：普林斯顿数学指南（第1卷）》适合于高等院校本科生、研究生、教师和研究人员学习和参考。虽然主要是为了数学专业的师生写的，但是，具有大学数学基础知识，更重要的是对数学有兴趣的读者，都可以从本书得到很大的收获。

"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age , by Paul Graham We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care? Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970. Letters, encyclopedias, newspapers, and even your local store are being replaced by the Internet. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age , by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls "an intellectual Wild West." The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live. Topics include the importance of beauty in software design, how to make wealth, heresy and free speech, the programming language renaissance, the open-source movement, digital design, internet startups, and more.

《牛津英语用法指南》是世界上关于英语用法方面最具影响力的参考书之一。第一版英语版自1980年出版以来，共重印过26次，之后又不断修订增补，分别于1995年和2005年出版了第二和第三版，至今共售出逾1, 500, 000本，一直受到广大读者的喜爱。
作者Michael Swan是英国著名的语言学家。他在总结英语教学最新研究成果的同时，亦将自己长期从事英语教学工作的心得以及广大读者对旧版的意见融会贯通地体现在本书的编写过程中，从而编出这样一本既有系统、又不乏针对性的英语用法参考书。书中的解说和例句更以当代语料库为依据，因而更加真实、可靠。
《牛津英语用法指南》第三版在第二版的基础上进行了大量修订，用634个条目将英语学习者常遇到的语法、词汇、发音、修辞等问题和困惑逐一击破。此第三版在保留第二版精华的同时，对旧版中几乎所有条目都作了修订，以使内容更清楚、更有效地帮助读者解决英语疑难。此外，第三版还增补了不少新的条目，包括电子邮件、标准英语和方言、礼貌的表达方法、口语和书面语的区别、英语的变化等专题，使本书对英语用法的介绍更加全面且与时俱进。新版亦对编排和索引方式作了更新，帮助读者更快更准地找到所要查询的条目。
此书翻译成中文后，对以汉语为母语的英语学习者有很大的参考价值。真实可靠的例句中英对照，使重点更加突出，更便于学习者掌握。书中尽可能给出语法术语的英语原文，方便读者对照参考。
本书主要对象是中级至高级程度的英语学习者，也非常适合英语教师和常用英语写作或对话的人士参考。现由外语教学与研究出版社从牛津大学出版社引进出版，以满足国内广大英语学习者的需要。希望它能成为读者的良师益友，帮助大家学会使用更地道、更自然的英语。

HTML just keeps evolving, and web designers need to know how to combine it with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript to build today's striking and useful sites. The explosion of browser support for HTML5 has driven new lines of innovation, but designers need to know which parts of HTML5 are ready now and how to work through their strengths and weaknesses. Learning Web Design provides a no-nonsense guide to the maze of options novice designers face, offering clear advice for creating attractive web sites and applications. Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. You'll start at the beginning - learning how the Web and web pages work - and build your knowledge from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages up on the Web. This thoroughly revised edition teaches you how to build web sites according to modern design practices and professional standards. It includes exercises to help you to learn various techniques, and short quizzes to make sure you're up to speed with key concepts. If you're interested in web design, Learning Web Design is the place to start.

微积分是人类智慧最伟大的成就之一．300年前，受天文学方面问题的启发，牛顿(Newton)和莱布尼茨(Leibniz)阐发了微积分的诸多概念．自那时以来，每一世纪都证明了微积分在阐明数学、物理科学、工程学以及社会和生物科学方面问题的强大威力． 由于微积分具有将复杂问题归纳为简单规则和步骤的非凡能力，迄今已获得相当大的成功．正因为如此，微积分的教学也存在着危险：很可能将这一学科仅仅教授成一些规则和步骤，从而既忽略了数学本身，也忽略了它的实际价值．由于美国国家科学基金会的慷慨资助，我们以哈佛大学为首的合作组，尝试创立一门新的微积分课程以期恢复它的洞察力．本书是这一努力的一部分．

Asimov tells the stories behind the science: the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galilei, Achimedes, Newton and Einstein, he takes the most complex concepts and explains it in such a way that a first-time reader on the subject feels confident on his/her understanding.

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Sophie's World is a novel which presents a comprehensive history of western philosophy through the story of a philosophy tutor teaching a philosophy course to a girl named Sophie Amundsen. This book is an excellent primer for people who have never learned philosophy; it also helps people who have forgotten everything they learned about philosophy, and desire to “acquire new knowledge when reviewing the old.”

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

《从一到无穷大：科学中的事实和臆测》是当今世界最有影响的科普经典名著之一，1970年代末由科学出版社引进出版后，曾在国内引起很大反响，直接影响了众多的科普工作者。
作品以生动的语言介绍了20世纪以来科学中的一些重大进展。先漫谈一些基本的数学知识，然后用一些有趣的比喻，阐述了爱因斯坦的相对论和四维时空结构，并讨论了人类在认识微观世界（如基本粒子、基因）和宏观世界（如太阳系、星系等）方面的成就。