This book searches the concrete actions typical of baseball games for the meaning of what they represent.

This "natural history" of the face unravels the surprising mysteries of one of the most familiar sights in everyday life, exploring the face's anatomy, its singularity, its ability to communicate, and its beauty.

In her piercing and pignant fictional debut, Aimee Liu crosses continents and generations, from New York's Chinatown to pre-war Shaghai, to tell a tale of a young woman trapped between two worlds.

Dostoevsky held on stubbornly to only what a free examination of what was human in himself revealed.

They show how imbalance between morals and markets is at the root of the recent corporate scandals in the US as well as the global financial crisis the world continues to face.

Traces the story of Lofti Zadeh, an Iranian-American professor at Berkeley who began developing fuzzy logic - the way to program computers so they can mimic the imprecise way that humans make decisions.

本书作者分析了种种面孔的行为,比如接吻、打喷嚏、眨眼、红脸,暴露了欺骗、真诚和狡猾的面部表情,探讨了诸如微笑的来源和梳妆打扮的意义等现象,揭示了面孔的四大领域 ...