本书是航天学的基础入门教材，以生动的语言和丰富的实例向读者全面系统、深入浅出地介绍航天任务、航天器、弹道和轨迹、运载工具、任务操控系统等航天基础知识。全书图文并茂、结构清晰、重点突出，适合所有对航天感兴趣的人学习和阅读。

Before the Law promotes an interdisciplinary approach for introducing students to the purpose and practice of law in our society. Excerpts from recent and classic court cases, as well as material on trends in legal studies come from a range of legal sources, including court opinions; sociological, psychological, and anthropological analyses; historical and philosophical approaches; and literary reflections. Readings cover such current topics as online dispute resolution and protection of personal and property rights in cyberspace; gay marriage; and post-9/11 legislation for fighting terrorism.

本书是当代职业科学史家为非专业的读者和大学生们编写的一本世界科学技术通史教材，旨在提供一幅“全景图”，以满足那些受过良好教育的人士的需要。本书阐明：科学和技术的关系是一个历史过程，而非总是一成不变地结合在一起的。作者循着科学和技术的沿革，从史前期直到当前，查找出说明两者有时结合、有时分离的那些史实，检讨那种技术即应用科学的流行观点。而且证明：事实上，在20世纪以前的大多数历史条件下，科学和技术一直是处在彼此要么部分分离要么完全分离的状况下向前发展的，而且在智识上和社会学上都是如此。本书的一大特色是：摒弃了‘‘欧洲中心论”的编史学观点，以全球视角详述了中国、印度、中南美洲和近东帝国等文明的科学研究和技术发明传统。
本书获得2000年度美国世界史协会图书奖，除中文版外，还被译为德文、土耳其文、韩文出版。

本書從政治、外交、社會和文化的多重視角，闡析中共如何借鏡蘇聯經驗，運用小說、教科書、歌曲、電影等媒介及勞動模範和女拖拉機手典型，塑造「新人」；傳播「新人」必須具備的條件，包括站穩無產階級立場，實踐黨國至上、集體為重、勞動光榮和男女平等諸多觀 念。蘇聯經驗是毛澤東時代中共施政的重要參照座標；但隨著中蘇關係從蜜月到反目的翻轉，中共宣傳「新人」的重點也隨之產生變化。全書藉由比較與對照中蘇風俗習慣、國家發展，以及領袖觀念與價值偏好，分析蘇聯經驗在中國發生變化的背後成因，進而討論斯大林模式在中國的適用性。毛澤東不斷強化階級鬥爭的觀點和政策，是對斯大林模式的重大修正。此外，研究中共所宣傳的新人觀，也有助於了解紅衛兵在文革前十七年的養成教育，以及毛澤東政權的本質。毛時代中共對「新人」的宣傳，造成二元對立的價值觀，其影響至今猶見。

《新东方•日语语法新思维(修订版)》通过把日语语法进行归类,对相似的语法进行分析,打破了以往对日语语法的理解方式。通过对日语的追本溯源，让使用汉字的中国学生能够对疑难的日语语法有更加透彻的理解。同时,《日语语法新思维(修订版)》中每个语法项目都使用了最具代表性的经典例句，并且配有精准的直译和意译两种翻译，以帮助读者达到深刻记忆和脱口而出的效果。

Now in paperback, the penetrating critique of elite universities and the culture of privilege they perpetuate
Ross Gregory Douthat arrived at Harvard University in the fall of 1998 carrying an idealized vision of Ivy League life. But the Harvard of his dreams, an institution fueled by intellectual curiosity and entrusted with the keys to liberal education, never materialized. Instead, he found himself in a school rife with elitism and moneyed excess, an incubator for the grasping and ambitious, a college seduced by the religion of success.
So Douthat was educated at Harvard, but what Harvard taught him was not what he had gone there to learn. Instead, he was immersed in the culture of America’s ever-swelling ruling class -- a culture of privilege, of ambition and entitlement, in which a vast network of elite schools are viewed by students, parents, administrators, and professors more as stepping-stones to high salaries and coveted social networks than as institutions entrusted with academic excellence.
Privilege is a powerfully rendered portrait of a young manhood, a pointed social critique of this country’s most esteemed institutions, and an exploration of issues such as affirmative action, grade inflation, political correctness, and curriculum reform.

The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat’s Last Theorem and the Poincaré Conjecture , in addition to recent advances in areas such as finite group theory and computer-aided proofs. Distills thousands of years of mathematics into a single, approachable volume Covers mathematical discoveries, concepts, and thinkers, from Ancient Egypt to the present Includes up-to-date references and an extensive chronological table of mathematical and general historical developments. Whether you're interested in the age of Plato and Aristotle or Poincaré and Hilbert, whether you want to know more about the Pythagorean theorem or the golden mean, A History of Mathematics is an essential reference that will help you explore the incredible history of mathematics and the men and women who created it.

Why literally shouldn't be taken literally.
Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is.
Is it OK to spell OK okay?
What's wrong with hence why?
Was Alanis Morrisette ever ironic?
Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage is the world-famous guide to English usage, loved and used by writers, editors, and anyone who values correct English since it first appeared in 1926. Fowler's gives comprehensive and practical advice on complex points of grammar, syntax, punctuation, style, and word choice.
Now enlarged and completely revised to reflect English usage in the 21st century, it provides a crystal-clear, authoritative picture of the English we use, while illuminating scores of usage questions old and new.
International in scope, it gives in-depth coverage of both British and American English usage issues, with reference also to the English of Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and South Africa. The thousands of authentic examples in the book vividly demonstrate how modern writers tackls debated usage issues. They come on the one hand from established literary figures such as Chinua Achebe, Peter Ackroyd, Raymond Carver, Iris Murdoch, Harold Pinter, and Vikram Seth. On the other, they are drawn from a vast range of newspapers, journals, books, broadcast material, websites, and other digital sources from across the globe, and include references to topical personalities such as Stephen Fry, Prince Harry, Jeremy Paxman, and Wayne Rooney.
Based on the evidence and research of the Oxford Dictionaries Programme, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to usage available.

《顾维钧回忆录》是中国近现代史和外交史的重要史料。中华书局自1983年开始出版第一册，到1994年全部出齐。但因为出版周期较长，且逐册发行，坊间整套留存者甚少。现应读者之需，重新出版，将原有十三册内容全部重新排版，订正原书错讹，增加照片，整套全新面市，布面精装，以飨读者。

`Review from previous edition deserves a garland . . . the most concise and exhaustive study of the English language' Spectator
`such a pleasure to read and so straightforward in its explanations that one concedes all one's errors and aberrations with good grace' Keith Waterhouse, Good Book Guide --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

This book introduces students with little or no prior programming experience to the art of computational problem solving using Python and various Python libraries, including PyLab. It provides students with skills that will enable them to make productive use of computational techniques, including some of the tools and techniques of "data science" for using computation to model and interpret data. The book is based on an MIT course (which became the most popular course offered through MIT's OpenCourseWare) and was developed for use not only in a conventional classroom but in in a massive open online course (or MOOC) offered by the pioneering MIT--Harvard collaboration edX. Students are introduced to Python and the basics of programming in the context of such computational concepts and techniques as exhaustive enumeration, bisection search, and efficient approximation algorithms. The book does not require knowledge of mathematics beyond high school algebra, but does assume that readers are comfortable with rigorous thinking and not intimidated by mathematical concepts. Although it covers such traditional topics as computational complexity and simple algorithms, the book focuses on a wide range of topics not found in most introductory texts, including information visualization, simulations to model randomness, computational techniques to understand data, and statistical techniques that inform (and misinform) as well as two related but relatively advanced topics: optimization problems and dynamic programming. Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python can serve as a stepping-stone to more advanced computer science courses, or as a basic grounding in computational problem solving for students in other disciplines.

Master Python and become a programmer-even if you never thought you could! This breakthrough book and CD can help practically anyone get started in programming. It's called "The Hard Way," but it's really quite simple. What's "hard" is this: it requires discipline, practice, and persistence. Zed A. Shaw teaches the Python programming language through a series of 52 brilliantly-crafted exercises-all formatted consistently, and most no longer than two pages (including "extra credit"). Just read each exercise, type in its sample code precisely (no copy-and-paste!), and make the programs run. As you read, type, fix your mistakes, and watch the results, you'll learn how software works, how programming works, what good programs look like, and how to read, write, and see code. You'll discover how to spot crucial differences that fundamentally affect program behavior, and you'll learn everything you need to know about Python logic, input/output, variables, and functions. Above all, you'll learn the attention to detail that is indispensable to successful programming (and so much else in life). At first, yes, it can be difficult. But it gets easier. And Shaw offers plenty of extra guidance and insight through 5+ full hours of teaching video on the accompanying CD. As Shaw's thousands of online readers and fans will attest, the moment will come when you just "get it"-and that moment feels great. Nothing important comes without discipline, practice, and persistence. But, with Learn Python the Hard Way, readers who bring those qualities to programming will master it-and they will reap the rewards, both personally and in their careers.

《寻找如画美》描写了英国趣味演化历史中一个有趣的时期，通过从当时各种旅行资料中收集的细节，十分生动地展现了18世纪后期上流人士的这一爱好。第一部分讲述18世纪英国如画风景的兴起，从诗歌、风景画等写到风景趣味的演变；第二部分以怀河谷地、北威尔士、湖区和苏格兰高地为例，考察了早期的如画风景之旅。在展现英国本土风景如何取代国外风景进入主流趣味的同时，也揭示出当时时兴的旅行活动与这种趣味变迁之间的关系。

手稿引进 全球首发
纵览国际艺术品市场之诡谲的最佳指南
奇迹抑或泡沫？艺术品市场上不断飙升、令人惊骇的高价纪录，意味着艺术品的品质、时代的趣味，还是某种运作？
收藏抑或投机？与股票、黄金和钻石相比，艺术品作为投资品的表现如何？
2011年压倒美国而雄踞世界艺术品交易排行榜之首的中国艺术市场有何独特之处？为何只有在北京、上海和 香港，才能最为清楚地看到艺术品的价格是由投机、想象与操纵所决定？
“在任何其他行业里会被称为内幕交易的事情，在艺术市场上不过是一次友好的谈话。”专注于艺术品市场三十余年，英国作家戈弗雷•巴克在本书中生动地讲述了在1850 年到21 世纪之间这个商业时代艺术品的故事，揭秘高端艺术品尤其是画作的交易中种种操纵的伎俩：艺术家如何与商人合作，抬高艺术品的价格；商人如何精心设计，在短时间内转卖画作而得到五倍至五十倍的收益；19 世纪艺术市场的某次繁荣又如何持续三十年之久——要紧的并非艺术品的价格，而是利润。
但在作者看来，艺术品终究远甚于金钱：它们是便携的财富，更是人类最高贵的创造——一个人所能拥有的最美妙的物品。

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times-bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing's royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life.
Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing's life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936--the concept of a universal machine--laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing's leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program--all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime.
The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.