The last month of the year 1791 witnessed what Robbins Landon calls "the greatest tragedy in the history of music" - the premature death of the 35-year-old Mozart. The event was surrounded by enigma and intrigue, allegations of poisoning and sexual scandal. Drawing on his knowledge of the sources, Professor Landon seeks to cut through the fantasy to present the facts and to reconstruct the story of the last year of Mozart's life. The composition of such works as the "Requiem", "The Magic Flute" and "La Clemenza di Tito" is discussed in detail, and light is thrown on Mozart's relations with the freemasons, with Salieri, Sussmayr and others.

在自然科学中，量子力学不同于爱因斯坦相对论、牛顿力学、麦克斯韦电磁理论、摩尔根遗传学、达尔文进化论，由于参与人数之多、跨越时间之长，创建之艰辛、给自然科学带来的冲击之大与变革之深，使它成为一门极其独特的学科。
这一学科由众多耀眼的群星共同撑起，其创建与发展更跨越整整一个世纪。在事业的辉煌与历史的沧桑之中，各位大师群星荟萃，各放异彩，构成密不可分的整体。
《仰望量子群星：20世纪量子力学发展史》以玻尔、玻恩、薛定谔、泡利、海森堡、狄拉克、贝尔等三代量子力学大师为线索，介绍了他们的学术成就与研究方法，在学术质疑、诘难与争辩中的物理对话，学术思想，人物的性格与人格，社会动荡中的境遇，成功与失败，以及他们的内心的冲突、友情、亲情与师生情谊。
《仰望量子群星：20世纪量子力学发展史》还记录了20世纪量子力学的萌发、创建与发展的过程。这一过程根植于欧洲的自然哲学，得益于数学的思维模式与逻辑运用，此外，教育体制的宽松、学术的自由、频繁的交流、严谨的学风与社会的人文精神都促成了这一学科的发展。
量子力学的创建与发展，发生在频繁的战乱中。
各位大师的学术生涯伴随着经济萧条与纳粹迫害，清贫生活与流离失所，疾病困扰与饥饿灾荒，不完全是成功与壮举、热闹和辉煌，相反，既有挫折与失败，也有内心纠缠不清的忧郁与孤独，但以荣誉、责任、勇气和自律为品性的高贵，对社会、对人类、对科学、对事业的担当精神，成就了这些量子力学大师对科学的纯真追求。
《仰望量子群星：20世纪量子力学发展史》的史料直接来自二十几部外文著作，像任何一部科学史书籍那样，本书也有一个重要的宗旨，它所携带的历史性、科学性与文化性的信息首先应是真实的，为了给出真实性的交待，本书清楚地注明了全部资料的来源和原始出处。

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate?
John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer’s greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime’s immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects—and what it can tell us about Bach the man.
Gardiner’s background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach’s personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner’s aim is “to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.”
It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists.

"Just reading these documents brings this great composer to life in a most exciting and vivid way. I love this book!" —Yo-Yo Ma Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader , Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the composer's life and music. The readings in this volume provide an accurate and vivid picture of Bach's world and of his far-reaching influence.

Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach's death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music, showing how Bach's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher. And throughout, we see Bach in the broader context of his time: its institutions, traditions, and influences. With this highly readable book, Wolff sets a new standard for Bach biography. "A monumental work that must find its way into the library of every musician and every dedicated lover of music."—Isaac Stern "It's unlikely that anyone will fashion a finer tribute to [Bach's] genius."— Los Angeles Times Book Review "A magisterial biographical portrait...necessarily learned, but also user-friendly, helpful and entertainingly informative."— Chicago Tribune "Likely to be the standard one-volume Bach biography for some time to come."— New York Review of Books "A work of clarity worthy of its subject and his music."— Wall Street Journal "Undoubtedly the most important Bach biography since Phillipp Spitta's life written over a century ago."— The New Republic 42 black and white illustrations

在所有已故的科学家中，居里夫人是最特殊的一位。这不仅因为她双重国籍、女性等身份，也不仅因为她发现了镭。更重要的是，居里夫人从一名立志献身于纯科学并拒绝为自己的发现申请专利的科学家，阴差阳错地成为了举世瞩目的学术明星、世界级名人。其名气之大，早已远超她在学术上的贡献。
本书有别于其他名人传记之处，正在于作者没有简单罗列其生平资料，而是着眼于居里夫人从一名默默无闻的科学家如何一步步成为了拥有如此巨大影响力的文化名人。其中，作者着重描画了在这一过程中起了重要作用的另一位女性的贡献，并探讨了科学如何与媒体联姻，媒体在当时及现代影响力的比较。
居里夫人的另一特殊之处，在于其拒绝申请专利（这为她带来了巨大的荣誉）后，后半生却将相当大的精力投入知识产权保护这一事业。对这一前后矛盾的行为，作者也进行了精彩的解读。

《鄂国金佗稡编续编校注(套装上下册)》内容简介：《鄂国金佗粹编》二十八卷和《鄂国金佗粹编》三十卷，是现存最重要、最详尽的记录岳飞事迹的史籍。极具孝价值。

米歇尔·福柯是20世纪下半叶最重要的思想家，他的著作对哲学、社会学、史学、文学、政治学、法学和艺术产生了深远的影响，并且改变了这些学科的既定面貌。
福柯是一名“戴面具”的哲学家。他早年求学巴黎，学习心理学、哲学。之后，工作、讲学于瑞典、波兰、德国、突尼斯、巴西、日本 、美国。1950年代后期，福柯成为一个崭露头角的年轻知识分子，与戴高乐派交好。1960年代中期，他成为结构主义化身，将自己定位为法国思想时尚界的新星。1968年五月风暴之后，他又成为一名左派和社会活动家。 然而，就在同一时期，他“悄悄地”获得了法兰西学院这个法国学术最高荣誉殿堂的讲席。1984年，因感染艾滋病去世。
本书以简洁、清晰可读的叙述，有条不紊地追溯了米歇尔·福柯的生命足迹，揭开了围绕这位辉煌哲学家的许多神话和谣言，促使我们认真思考福柯的每一部著作及其观点，并重新构建了从第二次世界大战后到今天的法国的文化、政治和思想生活。

本书将孙中山视作以科学为自己思想和行为基础的“科学人”，从十九世纪末二十世纪初“科学”在中国的传入、翻译、普及、应用等用度，详细探讨了孙中山这科学观的形成过程，及其核心为“生之哲学”的思想以“科学”为桥梁深入的过程。

《见证：肖斯塔科维奇回忆录》是肖斯塔科维奇口述，由伏尔科夫记录并整理。
肖斯塔科维奇是世界范围内知名的音乐家，他的“肖五”“肖七”等名作早已享誉全球，他本人也成为了符号化的传奇。但是，其个人经历却并不为世人所熟知。在肖氏晚年，他将自己一生的经历做了细致的梳理与回忆。而这本书的出版，改变了无数的指挥家与乐团对其作品演奏的方式。
在书中，他的回忆以灰色调为主：权力的阴影下造成的不可逆转的人格扭曲、面对人性的抉择时失去的珍贵友谊、忠于人格却最终被迫害的悲惨人祸——这些沉重的往事几乎占据了回忆录的大部分篇幅。书中也写到了人性的良善——如其和索列尔金斯基、格拉祖诺夫和图哈切夫斯基等人的真挚友谊。肖氏对朋友们的回忆饱含深情、非常真挚。书中还涉及不少前苏联重要人物：政治、音乐、文学等方面的大人物一一登场亮相。本书文风节制、准确、细致、平和。以一种娓娓道来的方式，带领读者回到那个特殊的年代去再次认识这位知名音乐家——在特殊年代里，为了像人一样活着，他付出的努力与饱受的煎熬。
2015年8月9日肖氏逝世40周年，出版此书以示纪念。

When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it'. Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin. It surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects - in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum (the subject of an epic battle with the site's principal architect, Richard Meier) and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's new Beacon campus - enhancing what many had already considered the best book ever on an artist.

彼得•伊里奇•柴科夫斯基是俄罗斯最著名的浪漫乐派作曲家，成功实现了俄罗斯的民族文化与西方音乐传统的有机融合。他的音乐注重对人的心理刻画，时而热情奔放，时而细腻婉转，具有强烈的感染力，被誉为“俄罗斯之魂”。
《柴科夫斯基和他的世界》收录了七位柴科夫斯基研究专家的八篇专题文 章，通过大量详实的文献资料，全方位、多角度地向我们展示了解柴科夫斯基的个人生活、创作生涯，以及俄罗斯当时广阔的社会文化图景，必将对我们更加清晰透彻地理解这位世界乐坛巨擘及其作品大有裨益。 其中对柴科夫斯基的同性恋、死因及他与俄罗斯白银时代政治与文化之关系，尤其他与契诃夫的交往等，均有详实交代。

《最了不起的失败:工薪族田中耕一的诺贝尔奖之路》内容简介：2002年的诺贝尔化学奖让整个世界震惊。面对获奖者“田中耕一”的名字，众学术泰斗、往届诺奖得主都不知道此是何许人也。这种诺奖获得者在学术界“查无此人”的情况恐怕只此一例了，然而让你大跌眼镜的事情还有更多：本科学历，一个普通工程师，与学术界没有任何交往，从不参加升职考试，因一次实验的“常识性错误”而最终获奖……面对媒体的狂轰滥炸和围追堵截，低调、羞涩、不善言谈的他更得到了民众疯狂的追捧和喜爱，被称为“工薪族的榜样”。这位从平民中走出来的诺贝尔奖获得者在推掉几乎所有的采访和演讲邀请后，道出了自己的心声：我只想做一辈子工程师。
平凡中孕育着伟大。希望读过这本书的人都能找到自己一生为之努力的方向和动力。

1916年，阿拉伯大起义爆发。 英军中尉 Lawrence（Peter O'Toole 饰）受命登上阿拉伯半岛之后，决定带领阿拉伯人夺取亚喀巴。在穿越沙漠的过程中， Lawrence 力排众议孤身返回搭救了失踪的 Gasim（I.S. Johar 饰）。此举赢得了众人的尊敬，Ali ibn el Kharish（Omar Sharif 饰）沙里夫甚至让 Lawrence 换上了沙里夫的长袍，而 Lawrence 也欣然接受。可是阿拉伯部落间并不和睦，Harith 部的 Gasim 杀了 Howeitat 部的人，双方剑拔弩张。为了平息争端，Lawrence 亲手处决了 Gasim，而杀人的快感却让 Lawrence 感到不安。成功夺取亚喀巴之后，Lawrence 驼不停蹄地穿越西奈半岛回到开罗。Allenby（Jack Hawkins 饰）将军大喜过望，升 Lawrence 为少校，对其寄予厚望……

中东地区自古以来就是多事的地方。本书里边说的是第一次世界大战期间阿拉伯人配合英国人摆脱土耳其帝国统治的故事。这可以说是中东现代史的第一幕。从那个时候起到第二次世界大战结束是第二幕。一九四八年以色列国登场，中东现代史进入第三幕。黎巴嫩内战和伊朗伊拉克战争爆发的不是标志着新的一幕的开始，还得等着瞧。
本书的后纪里讲到伊拉克和外约旦这两个受英国保护的阿拉伯国家建立起来为止。除这两国之外，叙利亚和黎嫩是法国“委任统治地”，巴勒斯坦是英国的“委任统治地”，这都是巴黎和会的决定。叙利亚的阿拉伯人一直不服法国人的统治，不断起来反抗，但是没用，直到二次大战才获得正式独立。巴勒斯坦除阿拉伯人不服英国统治外，又增加了一个新的不安定的因素--犹太复国主义。