Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must m...(展开全部)

The Long Arc of Legality I am working on a book titled The Long Arc of Legality, which traces a trajectory in modern thought about the role of law in constituting a legitimate political order, from Thomas Hobbes to this day. It seeks to vindicate a claim that will seem part and parcel of Hobbes's general authoritarian political philosophy and deeply repugnant to a liberal democ...(展开全部)

Book Description When in 1154 A.D. Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine of France, he became at once the reigning sovereign over a vast stretch of land extending across all of England and half of France, and yet, according to the feudal hierarchy of the times, a vassal to the King of France. This situation, which placed French and English borders in such a tenuous p...(展开全部)

Although conventionally treated as separate, America's four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained U.S. bid for regional dominance, according to Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine. This effort unfolded as an imperial project in which military power and the imposition of America's political will were crucial. Devoting equal attention to Asian and American perspective...(展开全部)

迈克尔·亨特（Michael Hunt） 外交史界常青树 ★ 美国前国务院顾问 ★ 美国“杰出学术成果奖”获得者 ★ 美国外交关系史学家 迈克尔·亨特专攻美国外交关系史已有40 多年，曾先后执教于耶鲁大学和科尔盖特大学，现任北卡罗来纳大学终身名誉教授。同时他还是《外交史》《美国外交》等重要刊物的常驻编辑，著有11 部权威性著作。

Bestselling author Michael Shermer’s exploration of science and morality that demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moral From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of ...(展开全部)

本书以实际的嵌入式系统产品应用与开发为主线，力求透彻讲解开发中所涉及的庞大而复杂的相关知识。第1～5章为基础篇，介绍ARC嵌入式系统的基础知识和开发过程中需要的一些理论知识，具体包括ARC嵌入式系统概述、ARC EM处理器介绍、ARC EM编程模型、中断及异常处理、汇编语言程序设计等内容。第6～9章为实践篇，介绍如何建立嵌入式开发环境、搭建嵌入式硬件开发平台等，具体包括ARC EM处理器的开发及调试环境、MQX实时操作系统、ARC EM Starter Kit FPGA开发板以及嵌入式系统应用开发实例等内容。第10～11章特别介绍ARC EM处理器特有的可配置及可扩展APEX属性，以及如何在处理器设计中利用这种可配置及可扩展性实现优化设计。

If you want to develop efficient, smooth-running applications, controlling concurrency and memory are vital. Automatic Reference Counting is Apple's game-changing memory management system, new to Xcode 4.2. Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X shows you how ARC works and how best to incorporate it into your applications. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) and blo...(展开全部)

If you want to develop efficient, smooth-running applications, controlling concurrency and memory are vital. Automatic Reference Counting is Apple's game-changing memory management system, new to Xcode 4.2. Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X shows you how ARC works and how best to incorporate it into your applications. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) and blo...(展开全部)