英文电子书

作者：Jin Yong, Anna Holmwood(Translator)

书名：A Hero Born(The Legend of the Condor Heroes #1)《英雄诞生》

简介：The Song Empire has been invaded by its warlike Ju

作者：Ari Shapiro

书名：This Is NPR: The First Forty Years

简介：Always put the listener first has been NPR's mantra since its inception in 1970. Now celebrati

作者：Matthew Desmond

书名：Poverty, by America《美国贫困》

简介：The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty,

作者：Ari Shapiro

书名：The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

简介：From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirr

The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its b

作者：Benjamin Hall

书名：Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

简介："An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." &m

America's post--Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting

A gripping first-hand account of the devastating "last chapter" of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest's Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament to

On Monday, January 10, 2000, America Online announced that it was buying Time Warner for $163 billion. The news was crazy, incredible. The biggest merger ever, it was, according to the media, an "awesome megadeal" and "a fusion of guts and

Acclaimed historian David Oshinsky's chronicling of the life of Senator Joe McCarthy has been called both "nuanced" and "masterful." In this new paperback edition Oshinsky presents us with a work heralded as the finest account ava

David Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeav

Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin a

Prisons in the deep South, with chain gangs, shotguns, and bloodhounds, have been immortalized in movies, blues music, and fiction. Mississippi's Parchman State Penitentiary was the grandfather of them all, a hellhole where conditions were brutal. Th

The Ku Klux Klan emerged in Wood County, Ohio, in late 1922, and at its peak, the white supremacist group numbered nearly 1,400 members in the county. Klan members occupied many municipal and county-elected positions, and nearly 40 percent of the Protesta

作者：Bernie Sanders, John Nichols

书名：It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism《你完全可以对资本主义感到愤怒》

简介：A progressive takedown of the uber-capitali

作者：Timothy Gowers

书名：Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction（The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series）-牛津通识读本:数学

简介：The aim of this book is to expla

作者：Roger Scruton

书名：Kant: A Very Short Introduction（The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series）-牛津通识读本:康德

简介：Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influ

作者：Peter Singer

书名：Hegel: A Very Short Introduction（The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series）-牛津通识读本:黑格尔

简介：Hegel is regarded as one of the most i

作者：Edward Craig

书名：Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction（The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series）-牛津通识读本:哲学

简介：How ought we to live? What really e

作者：Anthony Stevens

书名：Jung: A Very Short Introduction（The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series）-牛津通识读本:荣格

简介：This is the most lucid and timely intr

作者：Samir Okasha

书名：Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction(The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series)-牛津通识读本:科学哲学

简介：What is science? I

作者：Peter Singer

书名：Marx: A Very Short Introduction(The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series)-牛津通识读本:马克思

简介：In Marx: A Very Short Introdution, Pe

As a young physicist, Leonard Mlodinow looked for guidance from his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Drawing on transcripts from their meetings during their time together at Cal Tech, Mlodinow shares Feynman's provocative th

A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools and our minds to grapple with the world around us.
 
Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a passionate and inspiring tour through the e

Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alt