
'A Byte of Python' is a book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience. If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you.

Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that ...

Starfish lit the fuse. Maelstrom was the explosion. But five years into the aftermath, things aren't quite so simple as they once seemed...Lenie Clarke-rifter, avenger, amphibious deep-sea cyborg-has destroyed the world. Once exploited for her psychological addiction to dangerous environmen ...

Civilization rests on the backs of its outcasts.So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have preadapted them to dangerou ...

The Bo Xilai Scandal_ Power, Death, and Politics in China
That the high-flying politician's demise should have been triggered by his glamorous wife's murder of a British businessman, as revealed in the most serious defection attempt in the Communist party's history, makes for a ripping yarn. But the story's high political drama also ...

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.Jane, the evolved computer intelligence ...

(当今美国中国近代史研究领域中最有成就的学者之一、美国中国学研究的两个最高奖——费正清奖和列文森奖获得者周锡瑞代表作)(著名汉学家史景迁 柯文 罗威廉 裴宜理联合推荐)(著名历史学家、教育家章开沅倾情作序并推荐)(从晚清到民国、再到共和国,时代洪流中的家族命运沉浮)《叶》主要讲述了中国百年历史中一个家庭的变迁,从晚清到“文革”结束,把整个国家史诗般的记述活灵活现地展示了出来。叶家人的生活显示了决定现代中国的重大事件的人性化的一面:19世纪大规模的破坏性叛乱,共和国时期的经济发展和社会转型,二战时期日本的侵略,以及文化大革命中的浩劫。 ...

古斯塔夫・勒庞 Gustave Le Bon(1841-1931) 法国著名社会心理学家。他自1894年始,写下一系列社会心理学著作,以本书最为著名;在社会心理学领域已有的著作中,最有影响的,也是这本并不很厚的《乌合之众》。古斯塔夫・勒庞在他在书中极为精致地描述了集体心态,对人们理解集体行为的作用以及对社会心理学的思考发挥了巨大影响。《乌合之众--大众心理研究》在西方已印至第29版,其观点新颖,语言生动,是群体行为的研究者不可不读的佳作。

1793年英国使者马戛尔尼到访中国,这次出使在历史上最大的争论是:英国使者有没有向乾隆皇帝下跪磕头?…… 本书作者佩雷菲特从世界史的角度,将此次出使作为东方与西方的首次撞击来考察,于是,视野开阔了,可供思考的素材也就相应丰富起来。在作者眼中,这次英国人的出使实质意味着当时的“天下唯一的文明国家 ”面对“世界最强大的国家”…… 本书以详实的史实,有趣的细节,精彩的笔致,揭示中西文明巨大差异和冲突。二百年前,大英帝国从给乾隆祝寿为名向中国派出了马戛尔尼勋爵率领的庞大使团,英国此举意图同清 ...

【我的书不是关于性的,而是关于自我拯救的。 ——亨利•米勒】亨利•米勒的作品中存在着露骨的性描写,英语国家长期拒绝发表他的作品。其早期作品首先在法国出版,1944年盟军来到巴黎后发现了米勒的作品,遂争相传阅,并偷偷带回英美等国,米勒顿时成为美国最富盛名的“地下”作家。直到20世纪60年代年经过一场具有历史意义的诉讼,美国最高法院宣布该书“不足以引起性欲”,《北回归线》终于在美国解禁。★ 亨利•米勒——最富有个性又极具争议的文学大师、自由与性解放的预言家★ 旅居 ...