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简介：　　An essential compliance tool for every privacy officer and attorney involved in managing privacy and data security issues, Aspen Publishers' ALL-NEW Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook provides the thorough, practical, sector-specific guidance that helps you meet today's challenges and minimize the risk of data breaches that can damage a company's reputation. 　　 　　Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook enables you to comply with data privacy laws relating to: 　　 　　Marketing efforts - including standards governing online behavioral advertising and targeted marketing 　　Privacy in the workplace - such as standards governing employee monitoring and background screening of employees and applicant 　　Health information - focusing on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), with insight into the HITECH Act's impact on data breaches and other recent changes 　　Financial privacy - including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act's regulations for the collection and disclosure of personal information in the banking and insurance industries 　　Consumer reports - with detailed coverage of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act 　　Government surveillance - including the latest developments in warrantless wiretapping 　　Social networking - including the FTC's current approach 　　Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook is written by Lisa J. Sotto - one of the world's foremost legal practitioners in the field. Ms. Sotto is partner and head of Hunton & Williams' Privacy and Information Management practice, which was recently ranked in "Band 1” for Privacy and Data Security by both the Chambers USA and Chambers Global guides. READ MORE! 　　 　　Packed with sample documents, checklists, and other compliance-enabling tools, Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook allows you to: 　　 　　Navigate the various breach notification requirements in the more than 45 states that have such laws in place 　　Comply with global data protection laws (including those in the EU), facilitating compliance with cross-border data transfer restrictions 　　Keep current with emerging legal trends, from changes in federal and state laws to the latest data privacy regulations abroad　　

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简介：Phaco emulsification is the most common technique used in cataract removal surgery. It requires dispersal of the content of the cataract by breaking it down using ultrasound and then sucking out the matter, leaving the clear lens capsule in place. ???“Phaco Without The Phaco???” describes the latest cataract removal techniques which extract the whole lens, and the techniques for subsequent replacement lens insertion. It explores a number of techniques all aimed at the same objective ???– to safely remove the whole contents of the lens through the smallest possible incision ???– without requiring any machine other than the surgeon???’s brain, hands and simple instruments. This volume contains contributions from the biggest names worldwide in eye surgery, and to quote Dr David McIntyre ???“This is the book that has begged to be produced! More than any other, this volume should be required reading for ophthalmic surgeons.???” Also available: Mini Atlas of Surgical Incisions in Cateract Surgery - ISBN 1905740468 Phacoemulsification Surgery - ISBN 1904798527 Anshan Publishers is a publisher of fine medical, scientific, and technical books. We find the best titles from our worldwide publishing partners and bring them to the global marketplace. We publish in a wide range of fields, including:- Anatomy Anesthesia Cardiology Dermatology Hospital Acquired Infections/Epidemiology Obstetrics & Gynecology Ophthalmology Orthopedics Pain Management Pathology Pediatrics Pharmacy Radiology Surgery Ultrasound, ECG, and Echo

Global business today, postscript 2003 / 2nd ed.

作者：  Charles W.L. Hill.

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简介：　　Global Business Today has become an established text in the International Business market for its excellent, but concise coverage of the key global issues including the cultural context for global business, cross-border trade and investment, the global monetary system and competition in the global environment. GBT's concise chapters give a general introduction to international business - emphasizing the environmental factors, with less coverage of operations.Charles Hill is renowned for his attention to research trends and that is evident in GBT through a variety of real world examples and cases from small, medium, and large companies throughout the world.2003 Postscript -. 32 pages make up this postscript edition. In this postscript, we review some important developments that have occurred since the manuscript for the second edition of this book was sent to the publishers, and we discuss the implications of these developments for international business. One development has been the continuing globalization of the world economy. Here we update the statistics contained in this book and look at the 2001 slowdown in the rate of economic growth across the three major economics of the world-the United States, Japan and the European Union. The FDI is revisited and as well. A second important development has been the growing tide of protests against globalization. Here we review the reasons for the protests and discuss their implications. Another important development was the formal adoption of euro notes and coins by 12 nations of the European Union on January 1st, 2002. In this postscript edition, the progress of the euro to date is examined. The postscript closes with a review of theeconomic and political achievements of the twentieth century and a discussion of the outlook for the early years of the twenty first century.　　

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简介：From Publishers Website: Civil Litigation, fifth edition, combines the principles of litigation practice with practical applications that are geared especially to the needs of the paralegal student. The text provides information and the critical skills necessary for any area of legal practice. The litigation process is covered in detail in a variety of contexts so that students see the relevance of litigation to other legal specialties, such as personal injury, real estate, employment and intellectual property law. Civil Litigation, fifth edition, provides a number of sample legal documents, such as complaints, interrogatories and deposition summaries, as well as case commentaries that set text material into a practical context. To help students understand difficult concepts, legal vocabulary and various charts and tables are available in each chapter to clarify challenging material. The new CD-ROM also includes an array of useful study materials. Each chapter focuses briefly on the impact of technology on the litigation field, and also contains useful references to litigation focused Web Sites.

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简介："This latest edition continues to cover all phases of collection development - from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice) to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, censorship, and intellectual freedom. Each chapter has been extensively revised to reflect changing practices, policies, and technologies. To this end, some chapters - electronic materials, government information, audiovisual materials, and resource sharing - have been almost completely rewritten. New to this edition is a CD containing supplementary material; a companion Web site will also be maintained to ensure URLs referenced throughout the text are kept up-to-date."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介："Computer graphics, and rendering in particular, is full of beautiful theory. The theory covers physical concepts, such as light fields and the interaction of light with different materials, and mathematical concepts, such as integral equations and Monte Carlo integration. The great thing about computers is that they allow us to build rendering systems based on the best theory. This book turns the theory of image-making into a practical method for creating images." from the foreword by Pat Hanrahan, Canon USA Professor, Stanford University From movies to video games, computer-rendered images are pervasive today.Physically Based Rendering introduces the concepts and theory of photorealistic rendering hand in hand with the source code for a sophisticated renderer. By coupling the discussion of rendering algorithms with their implementations, Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys are able toreveal many of the details and subtleties of these algorithms. But this book goes further; it also describes the design strategies involved with building real systemsthere is much more to writing a good renderer than stringing together a set of fast algorithms. For example, techniques for high-quality antialiasing must be considered from the start, as they have implications throughout the system. The rendering system described in this book is itself highly readable, written in a style called literate programming that mixes text describing thesystem with the code that implements it. Literate programming gives a gentle introduction to working with programs of this size. This lucid pairing of text and codeoffers the most complete and in-depth book available for understanding, designing, and building physically realistic rendering systems. * Winner of an Honorable Mention in the Computer and Information Science category from The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) * Finalist for the 15th Annual Jolt Awards * Companion CD-ROM includes the source code for a complete rendering system for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linuxwith many of the features found in high-quality commercial systems. * The system's plug-in architecture makes its basic structure transparent and allows for new features to be added easily. * The rendering system implements a number of newer or difficult-to-implement algorithms and techniques,including subdivision surfaces, Monte Carlo light transport, and volumetric scattering.

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简介：here are several classic atlases of human anatomy available to the student, with excellent illustrations. However in most cases they are the work of an artist, seeking to present each detail to be seen in the field of view. And such drawings may not be useful to the uninitiated student of anatomy. An anatomy student needs illustrations that give...   more 籥 clear depiction of the layout of individual structures, unobscured by detail that detracts from the main relationships within those structures. Such illustrations can be produced only by a very close collaboration of artist and anatomist and better still if the anatomist himself draws them. This atlas is the result of Dr. Singh's life time's work as both anatomist and artist.Also available: Atlas of Glaucoma Surgery - ISBN 1904798675 Atlas of Clinical Application of Ultrasound in Obstetrics And Gynecology - ISBN 1904798780Anshan Publishers is a publisher of fine medical, scientific, and technical books. We find the best titles from our worldwide publishing partners and bring them to the global marketplace. We publish in a wide range of fields, including:- Anatomy Anesthesia Cardiology Dermatology Hospital Acquired Infections/Epidemiology Obstetrics & Gynecology Ophthalmology Orthopedics Pain Management Pathology Pediatrics Pharmacy Radiology Surgery Ultrasound, ECG, and Echo   ?less

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简介：This book is a result of many years' research carried out with the purpose of evolving a logico-mathematical framework for symbolic computing. It gives a first time exposure to certain ideas and concepts related to non-numerical signal and image processing and provides certain latest technologies that may serve as a repertoire of tools that are of significant use in formulating DNA computing paradigms. This book is divided into five parts: 1. Symbolic Signal Processing 2. A Language Theoretic Approach to Signal Processing 3. Theory of Constructive Signal Processing 4. Symbolic Image Processing 5. Applications of Cellular Logic array Processing Also available: Applied Physics - ISBN 1904798101 Lectures On Linear Algebra - ISBN 1905740891 Anshan Publishers is a publisher of fine medical, scientific, and technical books. We find the best titles from our worldwide publishing partners and bring them to the global marketplace. We publish in a wide range of fields, including:- Biological Sciences Biotechnology Chemistry Engineering Material Science Microbiology Pure and Applied Physics Pure and Applied Mathematics Statistics

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简介：CD-ROMs contains: Red Hat linux Publishers edition, version 7.3.

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简介：This textbook gives students in the fields of business administration and economics a conceptual introduction to the field of statistics and statistical applications. The authors (of the U. of Cincinnati and the Rochester Institute of Technology) introduce and develop the statistical techniques within application settings of data analysis. Their chapters cover descriptive statistics, probability, discrete probability distributions, continuous probability distributions, sampling and sampling distributions, interval estimation, hypothesis tests, comparisons involving means, comparisons involving proportions and a test of independence, simple linear regression, and multiple regression. In order to streamline the material, all homework exercises and case problems have been eliminated from the text and are provided online via the publishers website. Annotation 漏2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Love That Dog 为小狗写诗 ISBN9780064409599

作者：  Creech

出版社：HarperCollins 2001年03月

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　 　Jack

Love That Dog is the story of Jack, hisdog, his teacher, and words. The story develops through Jack’sresponses to his teacher, Miss Stretchberry, over the course of aschool year. At first, his responses are short and cranky: “I don’twant to” and “I tried. Can’t do it. Brain’s empty.” But as histeacher feeds him inspiration, Jack finds that he has a lot to sayand he finds ways to say it. Jack becomes especially fond of a poemby Walter Dean Myers titled “Love That Boy,” and it is this poemthat gives Jack a way to tell the story of his beloved dog,Sky.

"A poignant, funny picture of a child's encounter with the powerof poetry. This book is a tiny treasure." --School Library Journal(*Starred Review*)

"A really special triumph." --Kirkus (*Starred Review*)

"Readers will love that dog, and this book." --Publishers Weekly(*Starred Review*)

有效生活指导手册/LIFE'S MISSING INSTRUCTION MANUAL

作者：  VITALE 著

出版社：吉林长白山 2006-2-1

简介：Book DescriptionBestselling author and marketing guru Joe Vitale offers insights and life lessons for achieving successIn the simple， straightforward tone of an instructional manual， this little book offers big wisdom and little-known secrets for living a better life. Packed with life lessons most people will wish they'd learned earlier， Life's Missing Instruction Manual uses humor and anecdote to present practical steps readers can use to take control of their lives， overcome any obstacle， and find fulfillment. Each simple lesson is explained and brought into focus with real-life examples and includes practical steps on putting those lessons to work every day. Full of uncommon wisdom and lighthearted humor， this book will help readers develop confidence， create a plan for success， get ahead at work， build rapport with others， develop time-management skills， and find wealth and happiness.Readers will learn how to live life to the fullest when they discover how to：* Take chances that lead to success* Get through the tough times* Be themselves and like it* Find their purpose* Work as a team* Create their own blueprint for success* Believe in themselves* Lead a good and moral life* Accept their mistakes and move on* Define success for themselvesJoe Vitale （Wimberley， TX） is President of Hypnotic Marketing， Inc.， and author of The Attractor Factor （0-471-70604-3） and The E-Code （0-471-71855-6）. He has been called "the Buddha of the Internet" for his combination of spirituality and marketing acumen. His professional clients include the Red Cross， PBS， Hermann Children's Hospital， and many other small and large international businesses. From Publishers WeeklyVitale， "the Buddha of the Internet，" compiles a trove of life lessons from "internet celebrities，" motivational speakers， writers and entertainment industry folks in this little book that offers a mishmash of oft-heard self-help homilies. Bits of wisdom and anecdotes are bundled into chapters with titles like， "Your Feelings Are Your Hidden Thoughts" or "How to Know What You Want." Each chapter is punctuated by subheads that address the finer points， including "Naps Are Good，" which advises： "When the world seems bleak， when you feel out of sorts， when your body feels tired and you mind seems wild， sometimes all you need is a good nap." Vitale frequently mentions his previous books （The Attractor Factor; The E-Code）， and includes short essays from other enterprising authors or "internet marketers" that are virtually indistinguishable from each other's （and Vitale's） in style， content and form. Worth noting is the journey the book takes from the simple advice at the beginning to the hints on manipulating people-"People Will Tend To Say Yes If You Start Them Saying Yes" and "People Will Pay Any Amount of Money to Have Their Inner States Changed"-that creep into the end of the book. Searchers intent on finding instructions on living a fulfilling life should seek a less scattershot book， but readers looking for the odd pick-me-up will find them in large supply here。

The Devil Wears Prada 穿普拉达的女魔头 9780007241910

作者：  AMY TAN　著

出版社：HarperCollins 2006年6月

简介：　　《穿普拉达的时尚女魔头》是根据是劳伦·魏丝伯格（Lauren Weisberger）自己根据自己的经历写的一部畅销小说。这部小说在在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上一连高悬了15个星期。　　根据这部小说拍摄的同名电影，由著名好莱坞演员梅丽尔·斯特里普（Meryl Streep）、安妮·海瑟薇（Anne Hathaway）等表演完成。同名电影同样获得高票房、高收视。　　Book Description　A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses. 　　　Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men clad in fine-ribbed turtlenecks and tight leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication to the gym. With breathtaking ease, Miranda can turn each and every one of these hip sophisticates into a scared, whimpering child. 　　THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA gives a rich and hilarious new meaning to complaints about “The Boss from Hell.” Narrated in Andrea’s smart, refreshingly disarming voice, it traces a deep, dark, devilish view of life at the top only hinted at in gossip columns and over Cosmopolitans at the trendiest cocktail parties. From sending the latest, not-yet-in-stores Harry Potter to Miranda’s children in Paris by private jet, to locating an unnamed antique store where Miranda had at some point admired a vintage dresser, to serving lattes to Miranda at precisely the piping hot temperature she prefers, Andrea is sorely tested each and every day—and often late into the night with orders barked over the phone. She puts up with it all by keeping her eyes on the prize: a recommendation from Miranda that will get Andrea a top job at any magazine of her choosing. As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, however, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. And even if she survives, she has to decide whether or not the job is worth the price of her soul. 　　The film version was released on June 30, 2006, produced by Wendy Finerman (Forrest Gump), freely adapted for the screen by Aline Brosh McKenna and directed by David Frankel. Anne Hathaway played Andrea, Meryl Streep earned critical praise and a Golden Globe as Miranda, and Emily Blunt played Emily.　　Production took place during fall 2005, on location in New York and Paris. Weisberger herself made a very brief non-speaking cameo appearance as the twins' nanny.　　It was very successful, taking in over $300 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film for both lead actresses. In September Weisberger and Frankel jointly accepted the first-ever Quill Variety Blockbuster Book to Film Award.　　On October 12, 2006, Fox Television Network announced that they have acquired the rights to a sitcom version of the series based on the book, which will air in 2007.　　Amazon.com　　It's a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it's killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Turns out Miranda is quite the bossyboots. That's pretty much the extent of the novel, but it's plenty. Miranda's behavior is so insanely over-the-top that it's a gas to see what she'll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who's been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour. For instance, when Miranda goes to Paris for the collections, Andrea receives a call back at the New York office (where, incidentally, she's not allowed to leave her desk to eat or go to the bathroom, lest her boss should call). Miranda bellows over the line: "I am standing in the pouring rain on the rue de Rivoli and my driver has vanished. Vanished! Find him immediately!" 　　This kind of thing is delicious fun to read about, though not as well written as its obvious antecedent, The Nanny Diaries. And therein lies the essential problem of the book. Andrea's goal in life is to work for The New Yorker--she's only sticking it out with Miranda for a job recommendation. But author Weisberger is such an inept, ungrammatical writer, you're positively rooting for her fictional alter ego not to get anywhere near The New Yorker. Still, Weisberger has certainly one-upped Me Times Three author Alex Witchel, whose magazine-world novel never gave us the inside dope that was the book's whole raison d' etre. For the most part, The Devil Wears Prada focuses on the outrageous Miranda Priestly, and she's an irresistible spectacle. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Claire Dederer 　　From Publishers Weekly　　Most recent college grads know they have to start at the bottom and work their way up. But not many picture themselves having to pick up their boss's dry cleaning, deliver them hot lattes, land them copies of the newest Harry Potter book before it hits stores and screen potential nannies for their children. Charmingly unfashionable Andrea Sachs, upon graduating from Brown, finds herself in this precarious position: she's an assistant to the most revered-and hated-woman in fashion, Runway editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly. The self-described "biggest fashion loser to ever hit the scene," Andy takes the job hoping to land at the New Yorker after a year. As the "lowest-paid-but-most-highly-perked assistant in the free world," she soon learns her Nine West loafers won't cut it-everyone wears Jimmy Choos or Manolos-and that the four years she spent memorizing poems and examining prose will not help her in her new role of "finding, fetching, or faxing" whatever the diabolical Miranda wants, immediately. Life is pretty grim for Andy, but Weisberger, whose stint as Anna Wintour's assistant at Vogue couldn't possibly have anything to do with the novel's inspiration, infuses the narrative with plenty of dead-on assessments of fashion's frivolity and realistic, funny portrayals of life as a peon. Andy's mishaps will undoubtedly elicit laughter from readers, and the story's even got a virtuous little moral at its heart. Weisberger has penned a comic novel that manages to rise to the upper echelons of the chick-lit genre.

Artificial intelligence a new synthesis

作者：  (美)[N.J.尼尔森]Nils J.Nilsson著

出版社：机械工业出版社,1999

简介：《人工智能英文版》介绍了人工智能领域中最重要的一个概念——智能代理。《人工智能英文版》从最基本的反应式代理入手，逐步向人们展示了现代人工智能不断增强的认知能力，同时也例证了该领域中重要且经久不衰的思维、思想。神经网络、遗传程序设计、计算机视觉、探视搜索、知识表示和推理、贝叶斯网络、规划和语言理解等有关人工智能的重要内容都通过《人工智能英文版》所描述的各种代理的不断增长的能力得以展现。《人工智能英文版》作者是人工智能领域的主要开创者和重要带头人，正是他提供给了广大读者一个耳目一新和富有生机的合成技术，该技术将领导人类把整个人工智能领域的研究引向一个新的境界。 Nils J. Nilsson: Artificial Intelligence, A New Synthesis. Copyright @ 1998 by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. Harcourt Asia Pte Ltd under special arrangement with Morgan Kaufmann authorizes China Machine Press to print and exclusively distribute this edition, which is the only authorized complete and unabridged reproduction of the latest American Edition published and priced for sale in China only, not including Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan. Unauthorized export of this edition is a violation of the Copyright Act. Violation of this Law is subjected to Civil and Criminal penalties.

LOVE

作者：  Toni Morrison 　著

出版社：Random House US 2005年1月

简介：Book DescriptionToni Morrison's new novelis a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power andperversity, color and class that spans three generations of blackwomen in a fading beach town.In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who woulddo almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them maybe even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee,mistress: As Morrison's protagonists stake their furious claim onCosey's memory and estate, using everything from intrigue tooutright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny,erotic, and heart-wrenching.Amazon.comThe first page of Toni Morrison's novel Love is a soft introductionto a narrator who pulls you in with her version of a tale of theocean-side community of Up Beach, a once popular ocean resort.Morrison introduces an enclave of people who react to one man--BillCosey--and to each other as they tell of his affect on generationsof characters living in the seaside community. One clear truthhere, told time and again, is how folks love and hate each otherand the myriad ways it's manifested; these versions of humanity areseen in almost every line. Monsters and ghosts creep into younggirls' dreams and around corners and then return to staid ladies'lives as they age and remember friendships and cold battles. Menand women--Heed, Romen, Junior, Christine, Celestial, and the restof Morrison's cast--cry and sing out their weaknesses and strengthsin rotating perspectives. Sandler, a Cosey employee, is a brilliantagent of Morrison's descriptions of human behavior, "Then, in asudden shift of subject that children and heavy drinkers enjoy, 'Myson, Billy was about your age. When he died, I mean.'" And Romen isallowed to play hero by saving a young girl from a brutal gangrape, while at the same time, he battles disgust like no superhumanwould be caught dead feeling.Though slim in pages, Morrison constructs Love with a precision andelegance that shows her characters' flaws and fears with brutalaccuracy. Love may be less complex than others in the grandMorrison oeuvre, but not because Morrison performs literaryhand-holding. Readers will experience in this smooth, sharp-eyedgem another instance of the Toni Morrison craftsmanship: she entersyour mind, hangs a tale or two there, and leaves just as quietly asshe came.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--E. Brooke GilbertFrom Publishers WeeklyAt the center of this haunting, slender eighth novel by Nobelwinner Morrison is the late Bill Cosey-entrepreneur, patriarch,revered owner of the glorious Cosey Hotel and Resort (once "thebest and best-known vacation spot for colored folk on the EastCoast") and captivating ladies' man. When the novel opens, theresort has long been closed, and Cosey's mansion shelters only twofeuding women, his widow, Heed, and his granddaughter, Christine.Then sly Junior Viviane, fresh out of "Reform, then Prison,"answers the ad Heed placed for a companion and secretary, and setsthe novel's present action-which is secondary to the rich past-inmotion. "Rigid vipers," Vida Gibbons calls the Cosey women;formerly employed at the Cosey resort, Vida remembers only itsgrandeur and the benevolence of its owner, though her husband,Sandler, knew the darker side of Vida's idol. As Heed and Christinefeud ("Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy:it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself"), Junior ofthe "sci-fi eyes" vigorously seduces Vida and Sandler's teenagegrandson. In lyrical flashbacks, Morrison slowly, teasingly revealsthe glories and horrors of the past-Cosey's suspicious death, theprovenance of his money, the vicious fight over his coffin, hisdisputed will. Even more carefully, she unveils the women inCosey's life: his daughter-in-law, May, whose fear that civilrights would destroy everything they had worked for drove her tokleptomania and insanity; May's daughter, Christine, who spent hardyears away from the paradise of the hotel; impoverished Heed theNight Johnson, who became Cosey's very young "wifelet"; themysterious "sporting woman" Celestial; and L, the wise and quietformer hotel chef, whose first-person narration weaves throughoutthe novel, summarizing and appraising lives and hearts. Morrisonhas crafted a gorgeous, stately novel whose mysteries are graduallyunearthed, while Cosey, its axis, a man "ripped, like the rest ofus, by wrath and love," remains deliberately in shadow, even as hisfamily burns brightly, terribly around him.From BooklistDespite the simplicity of its title, Love is a profound novel. ANobel laureate must feel considerable pressure to keep performingon a higher level than other writers. With her latest novel,Morrison slaps our face with the fact that she is better than most.The book has the tone of an elegy, for it emerges as a remembranceof and yearning for past times and past people in a black seasidecommunity. There were days, back in the 1940s and 1950s, when theCosey Hotel and Resort was the place for blacks to vacation, dance,and dine. Bill Cosey, a charismatic figure greatly attractive towomen, ran the resort. But now Bill is dead, and the story is, aswe see, not only a paean to past good times but also a portrait ofBill Cosey's power. Unusual for blacks at the time, Bill did enjoypower, both economic and social, for as far as the boundaries ofhis coastal town reached--his kingdom by the sea. Now, in hisabsence, the women in his life jockey for their own power in thevacuum he left behind; their world now revolves around his will,scribbled many years ago on a dirty menu. The novel's sectionheadings tell the tale of the different roles Bill played in thesewomen's lives: friend, benefactor, lover, and husband, amongothers. At least in her later novels, Morrison can stand to becriticized for obscurantism, which is also the case, to a certaindegree, here; in fact, readers may want to compose a chart as theyread, to keep characters and their relationships to each otherstraight. But as a vivid painter of human emotions, Morrison iswithout peer, her impressions rendered in an exquisitely metaphoricbut comfortably open style.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Brad HooperFrom AudioFileBill Cosey's male magnetism attracts the women who inhabitMorrison's pages. Some commanding, some flighty, all are drawn toCosey's passion. Once, Cosey's Hotel and Resort on the beach wasthe place for "colored folk on the East Coast." Now, the run-downstructure is home to his contentious widow and granddaughter.Through a series of retrospectives, the mystery of the questionablecircumstances surrounding Cosey's death and his role in eachwoman's life gradually unfolds. Morrison confronts issues of racein America, particularly the deep disappointment of manyAfrican-Americans in the face of ineffectual civil rightslegislation. Aching with melancholy for another, better, time, atime left in a troubled past, Morrison's novel combines elegance oflanguage with a lush, luxurious reading to make "must listening."S.J.H. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones AwardBook Dimensionlength: (cm)20.1 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.2

一本就通：宇宙史

作者：  克里斯多夫‧波特 / Christopher Potter　著

出版社：聯經出版事業股份有限公司 2011-8-1

简介：　　這是一部令人驚豔的傑作　　透過當今最先端科學眼界來審視宇宙，探究人和宇宙的關係　　幫助讀者在無止境的宇宙尋得立足點。　　克里斯多夫?波特（Christopher Potter）以生花妙筆解析我們所稱宇宙的意義。　　他講述無物如何滋生有物，有物又如何化育萬物。萬物和無物的有形寫照是什麼樣子？　　當科學描述一件由事物生成的實相，這時它是在做什麼？　　無物和萬物之間，就是我們棲身的處所。　　有史以來第一遭，從夸克到超星系團，從爛泥到智人，　　本書一舉鋪陳宇宙的完整生命史。　　宇宙一度是完全對稱的，如今已經走過137億年歷史。　　氣體雲霧交織出我們在現今宇宙發現的一切繁複構造：繁複層級的星辰或者哺乳類的腦子。　　波特以風趣筆調陳述科學的歷史和哲學，他還闡明，科學一次次把人類在宇宙間的首要地位拿掉，然而宇宙的反應，卻是又把我們擺回那個核心位置。　　波特秉持智慧，胸懷好奇橫越宇宙，從它孕育之初來到最後的終點－－還一路探索當中的萬物。　　【延伸閱讀】　　《一本就通：中國史》／李泉編著　　《一本就通：世界史》／馬世力、陳光裕編著　　《一本就通：西方哲學史》／傅佩榮著　　《一本就通：中國哲學史》／江心力編著　　《一本就通：中國文學史》／韓高年編著　　【媒體推薦】　　「《一本就通：宇宙史》不僅是專為詩人寫的物理學，還可能正是空前最接近詩歌或音樂的科學著述。波特以簡練優美文筆，寫出通俗易解的創新著作。」　　－－《美麗境界》作者／希薇亞?納薩（Sylvia Nasar，生於1947年）　　「多年以來，我總私下期盼能有人執著我的手，領我穿梭時空－－希望有個人能和我同樣對所有遇上的奇特事物咸感驚嘆，期望他能為科學論述遍灑詩句更增滋味。謝天謝地，克里斯多夫?波特終於現身了。」　　－－作者／黛瓦?梭貝爾（Dava Sobel，生於1947年）　　《一本就通：宇宙史》為我們帶來一劑對抗存在眩暈的解藥，幫你在無止境的宇宙尋得立足點。　　－－《23對染色體》作者／馬特?里德利（Matt Ridley，生於1958年）　　「我讀過的最佳科普書之一」　　－－斯圖亞特?傑弗瑞斯（Stuart Jeffries）　　「本書檢視令人驚詫的萬象歷史，論述清晰文筆流暢，讀之能增廣見聞，能啟人思維……凡是曾因害怕科學太過難解裹足不前的讀者，都能從波特這本書得到親切指引……各個課題比重相當，波特穩健鋪陳，彰顯所有課題都是如何相互連貫。」　　－－《出版人周刊》（Publishers Weekly）　　「幾年來論述最周詳，也是對普通人最有用的科普書籍……廣博、優雅，結構嚴謹……波特把量子物理學者的怪異、深奧世界和我們相當狹隘的想像力串接起來。」　　－－倫敦《週日泰晤士報》（The Sunday Times）　　「讀來有趣之極……一部美妙的宇宙論述，內容兼顧科學史、哲學和演化……我花了一晚閱讀，起初愈讀愈振奮，接著就感到眩暈，最後則目瞪口呆，一股敬畏油然湧現。波特為我們棲居的宇宙，寫出一部美妙論述……每頁我都讀得津津有味。」　　－－《旗幟晚報》（The Evening Standard）／威廉?利斯（William Leith）　　「就一本讀物來講，這裡頭該內化的東西太多了－－而一本書哪還需要其他讚譽－－你肯定得再讀一遍。即便如此，這裡把波特引自聰明人愛迪生的話修改重述，你對任何事物的了解，或許都還不到百分之一的百萬分之一。最後定論：讀吧。」　　－－《時代》（Time）／吉伯特?克魯茲（Gilbert Cruz）　　「筆鋒含帶感情，論述極其澄澈、淵博、幽默，胸襟寬廣，波特穿越太空浩瀚真空對我們轟擊。處處可見衛星、行星和旋轉黑洞等真相，他引領我們來到擴張宇宙的外緣。接著他把我們引入我們自己內部種種迷你宇宙，沉浸在原子和粒子成分元素，乃至於量子論當中。」　　－－《每日電訊報》（The Daily Telegraph）　　「克里斯多夫?波特的新書席捲空間和時間，雄心勃勃力圖披露科學對我們在宇宙間地位的發現成果，寫來平易近人，卻無走馬看花之失……波特以他明晰、權威的筆調，還有處理艱澀課題的嫻熟手法，寫出一本值得閱讀的好書失……凡是對『重大問題』深感興趣的人，全都會喜歡這部最新綜論。」　　－－《新科學家》（New Scientist）　　「近幾年來巡禮科學暨科學史的最佳概論之一失……論述出色，所有篇幅都淺顯易讀，為普通人述說科學知識現況……從日常經驗寫起，如實闡明最奧祕的現象，波特簡明論述課題，卻無簡略之失。」　　－－《科克斯書評》（Kirkus Reviews）　　「好讀又富詩意，為我們介紹當前我們對大霹靂、相對性、演化、生命、粒子物理學，以及對宇宙整體的最新認識。波特來到這裡，執著我們的的手，引領我們穿行宇宙，而且他還是個出色的嚮導。」　　－－全美公共廣播電台（NPR）《我們喜愛的書》（Books We Like） ／潔莎?克里斯賓（JessaCrispin）　　「令人嘆服……波特的筆調明晰，論述令人信服……他的成果令人欽敬，把歷經幾百年的老問題寫得清新，甚至顯得急迫……他最擅長踏後一步來檢視『大局』，深究科學發現的哲學蘊涵，尤其最後幾章還更顯高明。」　　－－《環球郵報》（The Globe and Mail）　　「克里斯多夫?波特是位高明寫手，他的科學興趣著眼探尋宇宙奧祕，他的書為普通人鋪陳出一段精彩旅程，成功描繪出科學演進和科學求知的繁複進程。《一本就通：宇宙史》是通俗科學的勝利果實，一清二楚簡潔道出當前課題的重大意義。」　　－－《俗務》（PopMatters）網路雜誌／麥可?布雷迪（Michael Patrick Brady）　　「這部廣博著述規模浩瀚，其中帶有某種令讀者自謙的成分，就像仰望夜空，欣賞星座，盤桓蒼穹，照亮黑暗……波特輕鬆把物理學、哲學、古人類學和普魯斯特編結在一起，構成一部壯闊綜論。」　　－－《獨立報》（The Independent）　　

第二眼SECOND GLANCE

作者：  Jodi

出版社：家庭电子杂志社 2007年02月

简介：　　In Second Glance, bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an evocative story entiwining a powerful drama of the heart's redemption with the disturbing history of eugenics. 　　A developer has slated an ancient Abenaki Indian burial ground for a strip mall, and now strange happenings have the inhabitants of tiny Comtosook, Vermont, talking of supernatural forces at work. Ross Wakeman is a ghost hunter who's never seen a ghost - all he's searching for is something to end the pain of losing his fiancée, Aimee, in a car accident. He's tried suicide - any number of times. Now, Ross lives only for a way to connect with Aimee from beyond. Searching the site for signs of the paranormal, Ross meets the mysterious Lia, who sparks him to life for the first time in years. But the discoveries that await Ross are beyond anything he could dream of in this world - or the next. 　　"In Second Glance, love does travel through time. You don't have to believe in ghosts to acknowledge the path it takes." 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　-------The Washington Post Book World 　　"Spellbinding....With this foray into the fantastic, Picoult proves there's little she can't do." 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　-------Publishers Weekly (starred review) 作者简介：　　Jodi Picoult received an A.B.in creative writing from Princeton and a master's degree in education from Harvard. The recipient of the 2003 New England Book Award for her entire body of work, she is the author of fourteen novels, including The Tenth Circle, Vanishing Acts, and My Sister's Keeper, for which she received the American Library Association's Margaret Alexander Edwards Award. Recently, she penned several issues of Wonder Woman for DC Comics. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at www.jodipicoult.com.

Cat 猫 ISBN 9781416978008

作者：  Matthew

出版社：Simon & Schuster 2009年02月

简介：

　　In Matthew Van Fleet's irresisibly pettable, brillantlyinnovative and fun multi-concept book, watch twenty-three breeds offrolicking felines pounce, prance and parade through concepts,pull-tabs, textures and interactive surprises. And you'll neverbelieve what cat dragged in! Pleasingly purr-fect fun from start tofinish! Meow...meow...meow...WOW!

　　From Publishers Weekly
　　Created in the style of 2007's Dog, this compact photographicbook showcases as many varieties of cats as it does interactivecomponents. Tabs enable playful motion: on the cover, a gray catdips his paw into a fish bowl; inside, a Bengal swats at a ball ofyarn and a swishing slinky cat tail twitches. Other cats arepictured next to de*ive titles: a fluffy aristocat sits on atuffet while a nice cat dozes next to a parrot. A scraggly catfeatures a furry cutout, while a hairless, scary cat (a Sphynx)lives up to its moniker. The final panels offer portraits of thecast of characters, with their names and breeds. The livelydiversity of felines makes this as appropriate on a coffee table asin a playroom. Ages 2–up. (Feb.)
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　　From School Library Journal
　　PreS—Van Fleet follows up the popular Tails (Harcourt, 2003) andDog (S & S, 2007) with this interactive novelty book aimed attoddlers but photographed for cat lovers. Stanton has captured animpressive array of expressions on his subjects: a cheeky Himalayansticking out its tongue, a regally bored Bengal, a gentle KurilianBobtail asleep beside a parrot. The text consists of simple rhymesdesigned to describe different types of cats and what they do. SueStainton's I Love Cats (Harper Collins, 2007) and PatriciaHubbell's I Like Cats (North-South, 2003) are just a couple ofsimilar titles that come to mind. The inclusion of furry tails topat, flaps to lift, and tabs to pull is designed to engage youngreaders, although it will probably just lead to damaged books. Thephotographs are engaging enough and should continue to holdattention after the novelty wears off. Buy where the other VanFleet titles are popular.—Kara Schaff Dean, Walpole Public Library,MA
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Oh, the Places You'll Go 苏斯博士：你想去的地方 ISBN9780007413584

作者：  Dr. Seuss （苏斯博士） 著

出版社：HarperCollins UK 2011年03月

简介：　　Theodor Seuss Geisel - better known to millions of his fans asDr. Seuss is quite simply the most beloved children’s book authorin the world.　　Brilliant, playful, and always respectful of children, Dr. Seusscharmed his way into the consciousness of four generations ofyoungsters and parents. In the process, he helped millions of kidslearn to read.　　Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts,on March 2, 1904. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1925,he went to Oxford University, intending to acquire a doctorate inliterature.　　Geisel published his first children's book, And to Think That ISaw It on Mulberry Street, in 1937, after 27 publishers rejectedit.　　Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, an Academy Award, threeEmmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and three Caldecott Honors,Geisel wrote and illustrated 44 books. While Theodor Geisel died onSeptember 24, 1991, Dr. Seuss lives on, inspiring generations ofchildren of all ages to explore the joys of reading.　　苏斯博士，二十世纪最卓越的儿童文学家、教育学家。一生创作的48种精彩教育绘本成为西方家喻户晓的著名早期教育作品，全球销量2.5亿册，曾获美国图画书最高荣誉凯迪克大奖和普利策特殊贡献奖，两次获奥斯卡金像奖和艾美奖，美国教育部指定的儿童重要阅读辅导读物。另有苏斯婴童生活中心。

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简介：　　From Publishers Weekly 　　Celebrated primatologist de Waal expands on his earlier work in Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals to argue that human traits of fairness, reciprocity and altruism develop through natural selection. Based on his 2004 Tanner Lectures at Princeton, this book argues that our morality grows out of the social instincts we share with bonobos, chimpanzees and apes. De Waal criticizes what he calls the "veneer theory," which holds that human ethics is simply an overlay masking our "selfish and brutish nature." De Waal draws on his own work with primates to illustrate the evolution of morality. For example, chimpanzees are more favorably disposed to others who have performed a service for them (such as grooming) and more likely to share their food with these individuals. In three appendixes, de Waal ranges briefly over anthropomorphism, apes and a theory of mind, and animal rights. The volume also includes responses to de Waal by Robert Wright, Christine M. Korsgaard, Philip Kitcher and Peter Singer. Although E.O. Wilson and Robert Wright have long contended that altruism is a product of evolution, de Waal demonstrates through his empirical work with primates the evolutionary basis for ethics. (Oct.) 　　------------------------------------------ 　　From Scientific American 　　It was not until a year and a half after his voyage on board the Beagle that Charles Darwin first came face to face with an ape. He was standing by the giraffe house at the London Zoo on a warm day in late March of 1838. The zoo had just acquired an orangutan named Jenny. One of the keepers was teasing her—showing her an apple, refusing to hand it over. Poor Jenny "threw herself on her back, kicked & cried, precisely like a naughty child," Darwin wrote in a letter to his sister. In the secret notebooks that he kept after the voyage, Darwin was speculating about evolution from every angle, including the emotional, and he was fascinated by Jenny’s tantrum. What is it like to be an ape? Does an orangutan’s frustration feel a lot like ours? Might she cherish some sense of right and wrong? Will an ape despair because her keeper is breaking the rules—because he is just not playing fair? Our own species has been talking, volubly and passionately, for at least 50,000 years, and it’s a fair guess that arguments about right and wrong were prominent in our conversation pretty much from the beginning. We started writing things down 5,000 years ago, and some of our first texts were codes of ethics. Our innumerable volumes of scripture and law, our Departments of Justice, High Courts, Low Courts, and Courts of Common Pleas are unique in the living world. But did we human beings invent our feeling for justice, or is it part of the package of primal emotions that we inherited from our ancestors? In other words: Did morality evolve? Dutch-born psychologist, ethologist and primatologist Frans de Waal has spent his career watching the behavior of apes and monkeys, mostly captive troupes in zoos. As a young student, he sat on a wooden stool day after day for six years, observing a colony of chimpanzees at the Arnhem Zoo. Today he watches chimpanzees from an observation post at Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta and at other zoos and primate centers. His work, along with primatologist Jane Goodall’s, has helped lift Darwin’s conjectures about the evolution of morality to a new level. He has documented tens of thousands of instances of chimpanzee behavior that among ourselves we would call Machiavellian and about as many moments that we would call altruistic, even noble. In his scientific papers and popular books (including Chimpanzee Politics, Our Inner Ape and Good Natured), he argues that Darwin was correct from that first glimpse of Jenny at the zoo. Sympathy, empathy, right and wrong are feelings that we share with other animals; even the best part of human nature, the part that cares about ethics and justice, is also part of nature. De Waal’s latest book, Primates and Philosophers, is based on the Tanner Lectures that he delivered at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values in 2004. In this book he tries—as he has many times before—to refute a popular caricature of Darwinism. Many people assume that to be good, be nice, behave, play well with others, we have to rise above our animal nature. It’s a dog-eat dog world out there—or, as the Romans put it, homo homini lupus, man is wolf to man (a curious proverb for a people whose founding myth was the suckling by a wolf of the infant twins Romulus and Remus). Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin’s self-appointed bulldog, promoted this dark, cold view of life in a famous lecture, Evolution and Ethics. "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it," he declared. In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan puts it another way: if there is no God, then we are lost in a moral chaos. "Everything is permitted." De Waal calls this "Veneer Theory." In this view, human morality is a thin crust on a churning urn of boiling funk. In reality, de Waal reminds us, dogs are social, wolves are social, chimps and macaques are social, and we ourselves are "social to the core." Goodness, generosity and genuine kindness come just as naturally to us as meaner feelings. We didn’t have to invent compassion. When our ancestors began writing down the first codes of conduct, precepts, laws and commandments, they were elaborating on feelings that evolved thousands or even millions of years before they were born. "Instead of empathy being an endpoint," de Waal writes, "it may have been the starting point." Back in the 1950s and 1960s, when animal psychologists talked about "sympathy" and "empathy," they always put those words between quotation marks, de Waal notes. Now he wants to take away the quotation marks. He describes one of his best-known demonstrations that animals care about fairness. In the experiment, he had pairs of capuchin monkeys perform simple tasks in their cages. For successfully completing each task they would get a reward, sometimes a slice of cucumber, sometimes a grape. All the monkeys would work for and eat the cucumber slices, but they preferred grapes. If one monkey kept getting paid in cucumber and it could see that its partner in the next cage was getting grapes, it would get mad, like Darwin’s Jenny. After a while the monkey would refuse to eat or throw the cucumber right out of the cage. Is de Waal right about all this? In the second half of Primates and Philosophers, his arguments are critiqued by a series of commentators, all of whom have written important studies of evolutionary ethics. They cite Freud, Kant, Hume, Nietzsche and Adam Smith. They circle and circle around those pairs of capuchin monkeys: "A capuchin rejects a cucumber when her partner is offered a grape—is she protesting the unfairness, or is she just holding out for a grape?" writes Christine M. Korsgaard, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. "Of course, if the lucky capuchin were to throw down the grape until his comrade had a similar reward, that would be very interesting!" writes Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. They disagree, they discuss, they bicker a little, like all primates and philosophers. They illuminate not only ageless questions of ethics but also current concerns such as the Geneva convention and "why universal empathy is such a fragile proposal," as de Waal writes in his response to his critics. By the end of the book it seems clear that we can no longer look at morality as a sort of civilized veneer on a cold and selfish animal, even though that view goes back long before Darwin went to the zoo. Its origin lies in the Western concept of original sin—when Adam and Eve ate their first apple.