William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial...(展开全部)

William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial...(展开全部)

“Welcome to the Sharemore Hotel,” said the porter. “You must be Mr Snore. Let me show you to your room...” Mr Snore checks into a hotel room, only to discover that the room is already occupied – by a mouse! So the porter moves Mr Snore up a floor to a new room. Alas, that room seems to be occupied by a fuzzy critter, too. Up thirteen floors, one floor at a time, Mr Snore gets m...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description The Magic School Bus was a series of children's books intended to teach scientific concepts to children. The books feature the exploits of Ms. Frizzle and her class of students at Walkerville Elementary School who board a magical school bus which takes them on educational adventures to space, under the Earth, into the human body, or to other such lo...(展开全部)

马歇尔·麦克卢汉（1911—1980），信息社会、电子世界的先知，20世纪的思想巨人。他一生勤于学问，拿了百个学位，写了十余种书 ，留下几百万珍贵的文字，代表作有《机器新娘》、《理解媒介》、《谷登堡星汉璀璨》等。他一生完成了几次重大的学术转向，从工科转向文学、哲学、文学批评、社会批评、大众文化研究、媒介研究，成为多伦多传播学派的旗手和主帅。他提出的“技术媒介决定论”、“地球村”等理论，给人文学科留下了一笔丰富的遗产。他的思想现在仍然对若干学科产生影响，尤其是对媒介研究、现代艺术和符号学产生着重大的影响。

威廉·戈德曼（William Goldman, 1931–2018） 美国小说家、剧作家、电影编剧。出生于芝加哥，毕业于哥伦比亚大学英文系，二十六岁时出版了第一部小说《金殿》，后来进入好莱坞，为电影撰写剧本，成为横跨小说和编剧两大领域的殿堂级人物，被作家肖恩·伊根称为“ 20世纪下半叶最受欢迎的说书人之一”。他的小说代表作包括《马拉松人》《公主新娘》等，编剧代表作包括《虎豹小霸王》《总统班底》《危情十日》等。 ———————— 刘勇军 资深英语译者，湖南邵东人，闲暇时读书、译书、写作，翻译出版过《霍比特人》《纳尼亚传奇》《月亮与六便士》等多部文学作品。

Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Ch...(展开全部)

威廉·戈德曼（William Goldman, 1931–2018） 美国小说家、剧作家、电影编剧。出生于芝加哥，毕业于哥伦比亚大学英文系，二十六岁时出版了第一部小说《金殿》，后来进入好莱坞，为电影撰写剧本，成为横跨小说和编剧两大领域的殿堂级人物，被作家肖恩·伊根称为“ 20世纪下半叶最受欢迎的说书人之一”。他的小说代表作包括《马拉松人》《公主新娘》等，编剧代表作包括《虎豹小霸王》《总统班底》《危情十日》等。 ———————— 刘勇军 资深英语译者，湖南邵东人，闲暇时读书、译书、写作，翻译出版过《霍比特人》《纳尼亚传奇》《月亮与六便士》等多部文学作品。

Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Ch...(展开全部)