Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations features memorable characters such as the convict Magwitch, the mysterious Miss Havisham and her proud ward Estella, as Pip unravels ... 続きを読む

people get out of prison, and when they get out, and their name is Edmond Dantes, they take their revenge!' Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmond Dantes is arrested on his wedding day ... 続きを読む

Charles Darwin revolutionized our ideas about the natural world and our place in it by introducing the concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest, and his ideas still provoke controv ... 続きを読む

The Mabinogion is a collection of eleven medieval Welsh tales, whose invention and fantastical interweaving of Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance have made it one of literature's greatest ... 続きを読む

経済学やネットオークション、そして社会的相互作用に至るまで、ゲームはあらゆるところで行われています。ゲーム理論とはそのようなゲームをどのようにして理性的にプレーするか、そしてどのようにして最大限の結果を残すかについて論じるものです。本書では、この分野の代表的な研究者が、数式をほとんど用いることなく、基礎から「オークション」や「進化ゲーム理論」といった応用に至るまで解説します。   &n ... 続きを読む

In this fascinating and sometimes disturbing book, the well-known writer Karl Sabbagh looks at psychologists' present understanding of the nature of memory, especially recollections of childhood, and ... 続きを読む

One of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a terrifying account of murder and amorality, and ... 続きを読む

One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.' Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She r ... 続きを読む

the highest matter in the noblest form' John Donne's description of the Psalms celebrates not only the perfection of the biblical psalms but their translation into poetic form by the Sidneys, who ... 続きを読む

Clear and simple-to-use Easy to read text- Type-face 11.5pt Developed in collaboration with the RNIB Over 90,000 words, phrases, and definitions Fully-updated with new vocabulary from Oxfor ... 続きを読む