Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry’s revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intrig...(展开全部)

On A iA ek's Dialectics explores the theoretical and practical potential of the psychoanalytic method deployed by Slavoj A iA ek by investigating its epistemological implications within our contemporary capitalist universe. The book begins by evaluating Zizek's account of the capitalist ideology of enjoyment through the analysis of Lacan's critique of Marx's surplus-value. If t...(展开全部)

汤姆·拉伯（Tom Raabe），在丹佛担任编辑与自由撰稿人。奉行“买万卷书，行万里路”的古训，不买书的日子喜爱旅行，足迹遍及印尼、新加坡、印度、尼泊尔、阿富汗、伊朗与欧洲各地。 陈建铭，曾任职于台湾诚品书店古书区，现为专业文字工作者，译有《查令十字路84号》、《菩萨凝视的岛屿》、《乞丐国王的时空指环》、《藏书之爱》，主编有《逛书架》、《逛逛书架》等书。

罗伊·莫克塞姆（Roy Moxham）曾在非洲的马拉维管理那里的英国茶叶种植园，在非洲生活了十三年后，他先是成为一名非洲艺术品商人，然后做了一名书籍保护者。他现在伦敦大学图书馆工作。曾著有《印度长篱障》（The Great Hedge D，India，2001）、<神行者>（The Freelander，1990）

罗伊·莫克塞姆（Roy Moxham）曾在非洲的马拉维管理那里的英国茶叶种植园，在非洲生活了十三年后，他先是成为一名非洲艺术品商人，然后做了一名书籍保护者。他现在伦敦大学图书馆工作。曾著有《印度长篱障》（The Great Hedge D，India，2001）、<神行者>（The Freelander，1990）

Design by Contract is a systematic approach to specifying and implementing object-oriented software elements based on precisely defined obligations between them. This is the first practical, example-centered guide to using Design by Contract. The authors introduce powerful design principles for writing good contracts and supporting guidelines -- and demonstrate those principles...(展开全部)

Book Description Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in a scandalous murder trial. It ended in the conviction of Jacko Argyle. The victim was Jacko's own mother, and to make matters worse, he died in prison. But the young man's innocence means that someone else killed the Argyle matriarch, and would certainly kill ag...(展开全部)

Book Description Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in a scandalous murder trial. It ended in the conviction of Jacko Argyle. The victim was Jacko's own mother, and to make matters worse, he died in prison. But the young man's innocence means that someone else killed the Argyle matriarch, and would certainly kill ag...(展开全部)