Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game developme...(展开全部)

欧爱玲（Ellen Oxfeld），美国哈佛大学博士，美国佛蒙特州明德大学社会人类学系教授，嘉应学院客家研究院特约客座教授。

Although they are "pariah capitalists" who face political insecurity in India, the Hakka Chinese have since their migration during the First World War come to control the city of Calcutta's tanning industry. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among the Calcutta Hakka as well as members of their community who have migrated to Toronto, Ellen Oxfeld sheds new light on the complex inte...(展开全部)

Although they are "pariah capitalists" who face political insecurity in India, the Hakka Chinese have since their migration during the First World War come to control the city of Calcutta's tanning industry. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among the Calcutta Hakka as well as members of their community who have migrated to Toronto, Ellen Oxfeld sheds new light on the complex inte...(展开全部)

欧爱玲（Ellen Oxfeld），美国哈佛大学博士，美国佛蒙特州明德大学社会人类学系教授，嘉应学院客家研究院特约客座教授。

贝尔•格里尔斯，1974年生，美国Discovery探险节目《荒野求生》（《Man VS Wild》）主持人，慈善家，空手道黑段高手，全世界什么都敢吃的人，专门为危险和死亡而生的野外体验生存家，曾乘水上摩托车环绕不列颠群岛、搭乘小船横越冰冷的北大西洋、翻越过“无法征服”的珠穆朗玛峰，也曾从犹他州沙漠的流沙死里逃生，在夏威夷大胆穿越鲨鱼成群出没的水域、在野外寻找蛆虫充饥而得以存活下来。总之，这是一个一生都在寻找终极冒险的男人，他不是在探险，就是在去探险的路上，假如去火星探险真的成为可能，贝尔绝对是第一个敢于吃螃蟹的勇士。 “只有极少数的人能对这个世界产生积极的影响……而贝尔就是其中的一个”（英国航空公司CEO 罗德•艾廷顿语），作为一个以危险安生立命的探险家和节目主持人，贝尔故事的极具启发意义，在追求并践行梦想、向往自由、不断超越自我等多方面都给人以教...(展开全部)

让·科克托(Jean Cocteau,1889-1963)，法国当代文学史上一位多才多艺的怪杰，既是诗人，小说家，剧作家，散文家，评论家，又是画家、电影艺术家、舞蹈设计家，是一位具有划时代意义的先锋大师。科克托早年受象征主义和超现实主义的影响，在创作实践中形成一种极具现代气息的风格。他将虚幻与真实、过去与当下、神话与现实糅杂在一起，其作品往往带有玄幻、朦胧的诗意。

Lynn Nottage has written one of her most exquisitely devastating tragedies to date. In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory workers struggle to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near future. Based on Nottage’s extensive research and interviews with residents of Read...(展开全部)

A Maiden… Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by ...(展开全部)

xels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. Exploring the artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, marketplace demands, and Donkey Kong-sized monkey wrenches thrown into the works by corporate, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveal...(展开全部)