Mathematicians solve equations, or try to. But sometimes the solutions are not as interesting as the beautiful symmetric patterns that lead to them. Written in a friendly style for a general audience, Fearless Symmetry is the first popular math book to discuss these elegant and mysterious patterns and the ingenious techniques mathematicians use to uncover them. Hidden symmetries were first discovered nearly two hundred years ago by French mathematician évariste Galois. They have been used extensively in the oldest and largest branch of mathematics--number theory--for such diverse applications as acoustics, radar, and codes and ciphers. They have also been employed in the study of Fibonacci numbers and to attack well-known problems such as Fermat's Last Theorem, Pythagorean Triples, and the ever-elusive Riemann Hypothesis. Mathematicians are still devising techniques for teasing out these mysterious patterns, and their uses are limited only by the imagination. The first popular book to addre

《劳动论》以人类劳动的社会性为基础，运用辩证唯物史观，以人类劳动的态势差别为核心，对人类社会经济的历史与现实作了相对系统全面的考察和研究。科学地认识劳动及其内部矛盾，是当代政治经济学研究创新的起点。由这一起点阐发的理论可明确地解决人类对自身认识的困惑，科学地认识资本主义社会存在、发展、死亡的必然性，以及未来全球实现社会主义的实质，即通过提升人类劳动智力，消除一切变态动力以完成人类劳动的完善。

Do angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feelsexual pleasure in the next world? Is the aspiration to spiritualsalvation helped or hindered by sexual experience? In Heaven andthe Flesh Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson explore the opinions ofpoets and painters on such questions, from the high Renaissance tothe birth of romanticism. Hart and Stevenson analyse the work notonly of canonical writers and artists, such as Milton andMichelangelo, but also of lesser-known figures such as John Goreand Richard Tompson, and the sometimes anguished speculations ofphilosophers and theologians. As the evidence of witty pornographicpoems and drawings demonstrates, the relationship between sexualdesire and spiritual ascension was not always treated with fullseriousness. This wide-ranging survey offers sometimes surprisinginsights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.

An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late husband, a carpenter on the island of Grenada, and a prenuptial contract for her daughter, signed by eighty-three people in Angoulême. Who was Marie Aymard? Who were all these people? And why were they together on a dark afternoon in December 1764? Beginning with these questions, An Infinite History offers a panoramic look at an extended family over five generations. Through ninety-eight connected stories about inquisitive, sociable individuals, ending with Marie Aymard’s great-great granddaughter in 1906, Emma Rothschild unfurls an innovative mo

It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787bottle of Ch?teau Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottlesunearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned byThomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbesfamily. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turnedwine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for findingextremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors about the bottle soonarose. Why wouldn’t Rodenstock reveal the exact location where ithad been found? Was it part of a smuggled Nazi hoard? Or did hisreticence conceal an even darker secret? It would take more than two decades for those questions to beanswered and involve a gallery of intriguing players—among themMichael Broadbent, the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaksof wines as if they are women and staked his reputation on therecord-setting sale; Serena Sutcliffe, Broadbent’s elegantarchrival, whose palate is c

Used as a reference by students of acupuncture, this is ahefty, truly comprehensive guide to the theory and healing power ofChinese medicine. It's also a primer on nutrition—including factsabout green foods, such as spirulina and blue-green algae, and the"regeneration diets" used by cancer patients and arthritics—alongwith an inspiring cookbook with more than 300 mostly vegetarian,nutrient-packed recipes.The information on Chinese medicine isuseful for helping to diagnose health imbalances, especiallynascent illnesses. It's smartly paired with the whole-foods programbecause the Chinese have attributed various health-balancingproperties to foods, so you can tailor your diet to help alleviatesymptoms of illness. For example, Chinese medicine dictates thatsomeone with low energy and a pale complexion (a yin deficiency)would benefit from avoiding bitter foods and increasing "sweet"foods such as soy, black sesame seeds, parsnips, rice, and oats.(Note that the Chinese definition of sweet foods is much di

Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetfulscience journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatoryexploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect ofour lives. On average, people squander forty days annuallycompensating for things they've forgotten. Foer used to beone of those people. But after a year of memory training, he foundhimself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even moreimportant, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In everyway that matters, we are the sum of our memories. Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, asurprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of thementalist's trade to transform our understanding of humanremembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes," he learnsancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speechesand by Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methodsthat have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can alldramatically improve our memori

How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy To mobilize America’s intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post–9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that “we must again embrace eggheads and ideas.” But the gap between national security policymakers and international relations scholars has become a chasm. In Cult of the Irrelevant , Michael Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day. Recounting key Golden Age academic strategists such as Thomas Schelling and Walt Rostow, Desch’s narrative shows that social science research became most oriented toward practical problem-solving during times of war and that scholars returned to less relevant work during peacetime. Social science disciplines like political science rewarded work that was methodologically sophisticated over scholarship

Used as a reference by students of acupuncture, Healing withWhole Foods is an invaluable guide to the theory and practice ofChinese medicine. With facts about green foods such as spirulinaand blue-green algae and information about the "regeneration diets"used by cancer patients and arthritics, it is also an accessibleprimer on nutrition—and a inspiring cookbook with more t... (展开全部) Used as a reference by students of acupuncture, Healing withWhole Foods is an invaluable guide to the theory and practice ofChinese medicine. With facts about green foods such as spirulinaand blue-green algae and information about the "regeneration diets"used by cancer patients and arthritics, it is also an accessibleprimer on nutrition—and a inspiring cookbook with more than 300mostly vegetarian, nutrient-packed recipes. The information on Chinese medicine is useful for helping todiagnose health imbalances, especially nascent illnesses. It'ssmartly paired with the whole-foods program: because

“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.” That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-manneredpassenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start ofone of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of Americantrue crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, thenparachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and intooblivion. D. B. Cooper’s case has become the stuff of legend andobsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy tosuicidal despair. Now with Skyjack, journalist Geoffrey Gray delvesinto this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamouscase. Starting with a tip from a private investigator into a promisingsuspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest employee, and trainedparatrooper), Gray is propelled into the murky depths of adecades-old mystery, conducting new interviews and obtaining afirst-ever look at Cooper’s FBI file. Beginning with aheartstopping and unprecedented recreation of the crime itself,f

《南来的挑战》是大众报业集团（大众日报社）社长梁国典从事新闻工作30年来的作品选集，精选了作者撰写的通讯和论文的代表作品。作者从记者干起，全身心投入新闻工作，紧跟时代发展潮流，采写和组织策划了孔繁森、李登海、朱彦夫、王乐义等重大典型人物报道，推出了如莱芜市乡镇简政放权、莱西市村级组织建设、文登农村精神文明建设、荣成市实践“三个代表”的经验以及海尔经验、“南巡第三春的汇报系列述评”等等重大经验性报道，挖掘重大典型、新闻事件、英模人物身上的时代价值，捕捉新闻背后的丰盈内涵，多篇作品获得中国新闻奖。实践证明，这些通讯报道的典型，经住了时间的检验，到现在仍具有典型意义，是做好新时期典型宣传的生动教材。作者走上管理岗位后，注重加强对新闻实践的总结提升，撰写了大量业务论文，内容涉及采编业

Asperger Syndrome has become an increasingly common disorder.One in 300 individuals may have AS—exhibiting characteristics suchas average to high intelligence, obsessive behavior, intensespecial interests, and difficulty dealing with everyday socialsituations—and it is now more prevalent than childhood cancer andDown’s syndrome. As the mother of a boy diagnosed with AS in 1994, Barbara Kirbyfound scant resources and support. She developed theinternationally renowned OASIS (Online Asperger SyndromeInformation and Support) Web site in 1995 to help other parentsfind the information they need. She teamed up with PatriciaRomanowski Bashe, now co-owner of OASIS and herself the mother of ason with AS, to write The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome ,which has become the standout authority in the field and amust-have for this growing audience. Now Bashe and Kirby have crafted a fully revised edition of thiscomprehensive resource for parents, teachers, therapists, andanyone who knows or works with someone with

In this thought-provoking study, Ali Mirsepassi explores theconcept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices andhostility to non-Western culture that have characterized itsdevelopment. Focusing on the Iranian experience of modernity, hecharts its political and intellectual history and develops a newinterpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through the detailedanalysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals. The authorargues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash betweenmodernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernitywithin a sense of authentic Islamic identity, culture andhistorical experience. He concludes by assessing the future ofsecularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iranin particular. A significant contribution to the literature onmodernity, social change and Islamic Studies, this book will beessential reading for scholars and students of social theory andchange, Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies and many relatedareas.

This book presents a complete account of the remarkable lifeand career of Harriet Smithson Berlioz. Peter Raby's success inthis book is to bring fully and sympathetically to life thevulnerable woman and the working actress who is so generallysubmerged beneath the myth that was created about her. At the sametime he provides a continually fascinating commentary on thetheatrical and cultural history of her time: on touring troupes inIreland; on the late Georgian theatre in London; on the differentacting styles and traditions in England and France; on theeconomics of the theatre and the composition of the audiences; onthe intellectual background to Shakespeare's belated acceptance inFrance; on French translations of Shakespeare and contemporaryFrench critical essays and reviews; on the leading figures whoframe Harriet's story - actors, painters, writers, and musicians(most notably, of course, Berlioz himself). Holding all together isthe complex figure of Harriet - a talented actress, and who for abrief but

In an age when modern reproductive technology is moving at arapid and alarming rate, Conscious Conception is an alternativeexploration into understanding personal fertility, as well as acomprehensive guide to discovering newfound meaning in oursexuality. Combining knowledge of myth and culture, authorsJeannine Parvati Baker and Frederick Baker offer a step-by-stepmanual of fertility awareness, depth psychology, and psychic birthcontrol and interweave the five elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Air,and Ether—as tools for discovery in the face of reproductivechallenges. Including numerous contributions from experts in thefield, the book investigates a broad range of topics, from thecauses of infertility to the spiritualization of sexuality.Conscious Conception urges us to see all of the possibilities inlife’s plan of continuation and to seek a clearer communion withour own reproductive experience. Over 20,000 copies sold.

《摩梭母系制研究》由严汝娴和刘小幸执笔。严汝娴是上个世纪60调查研究摩梭母系制的主要民族学家。她和其丈夫刘尧汉在永宁对摩梭人的生产生活做了深入细致的调查，发表了一本调查报告，然后与宋兆麟合作出版了一本专著，这本书的主要材料是严汝娴及其同时期的学者当年的调查，例子的参考年代如没有具体说明则为1963年。书中大量的例子和资料取自严汝娴和刘尧汉的调查报告和严汝娴与宋兆麟合作的专著。

In this deluxe commemorative edition, LIFE's editors focus onthe publication's achievements more tightly than they ever havebefore: This is truly the best of everything LIFE has accomplished.In these pages are the best war photos ever taken for LIFE; thebest photo essays ever to grace our pages (including the works ofCapa and Parks and Smith); the loveliest pictures from Hollywood(in fact, the best pictures of Marilyn Monroe ever taken by such asHalsmann, Eisenstaedt and her dear friend Milton Greene), the bestsports pictures, the funniest pictures we ever ran. The bestpictures from the space race, and the most significant pictures tothe human race, including Lennart Nilsson's "Life BeforeBirth." This is a premium volume of LIFE, and beyond its 200-plus pages,which include a review of every LIFE cover ever published, thereis, included here, the ultimate premium: The first-ever LIFE issue,with the Margaret Bourke-White photograph of the Fort Peck Dam onthe cover, reprinted in its entirety, at actu

《当代中国公益慈善研究丛书：慈善组织公信力研究》是一部基于实证调查研究慈善组织公信力的著作。作者石国亮在辨析公信力与信任二者异同的基础上，立足我国慈善组织的客观现实，放眼全球慈善组织的发展趋势，通过全国性抽样调查和深度访谈，多角度分析了慈善组织公信力的现状和影响因素。研究发现，影响慈善组织公信力的因素包括知晓慈善组织数目、慈善的个人效能感、捐后的信息反馈、普遍信任、媒体认知和慈善事件等。作者运用层次分析法，以公众和慈善组织自身两个维度为基准，确立了包括六个一级指标、十八个二级指标和若干个三级指标在内的慈善组织公信力评价体系和评价模型，以期为慈善组织公信力建设提供一种备选方案。