Slicing through the main layers of the world of R & B, George, music critic for Billboard and Playboy , profiles his personal heroes in the recent history of black musicespecially in the evolution of black radio, the growth of independent record labels and the development of retail outlets for R & B records. Here are perceptive summations of the contributions of such star creat...(展开全部)

Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century geometers, discovered in mathematics an idea prefigured in Buddhist mythology: the heaven of Indra contained a net of pearls, each of which was reflected in its neighbour, so that the whole Universe was mirrored in each pearl. Klein studied infinitely repeated reflections and was led to forms with multiple coexisting symmetries. ...(展开全部)

Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century geometers, discovered in mathematics an idea prefigured in Buddhist mythology: the heaven of Indra contained a net of pearls, each of which was reflected in its neighbour, so that the whole Universe was mirrored in each pearl. Klein studied infinitely repeated reflections and was led to forms with multiple coexisting symmetries. ...(展开全部)

The popular Pearls Series(R) of clinical case presentations is ideally suited for psychiatry. For each patient, the author presents the patient problem, the history of the present illness, past psychiatric history, mental status exam, and results of diagnostic testing. The reader is then invited to formulate a diagnosis and a treatment plan. The next page reveals the diagnosis,...(展开全部)

From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe. Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will do so unilluminated. Yet the black hole collision is an event more powerful than any since the origin of the universe. The p...(展开全部)

Vous connaissez le joueur de flûte d'Hamelin, ce sinistre escamoteur d'enfants ? Il a une descendance, quelque part dans les vases du Mississipi et les campagnes perdues du Deep South. Toppi a transposé la partition en jazz funèbre, avec des basses assassines et trilles de saxo tragique. Ami lecteur qui a le blues, évite le Baron Samedi, ne réveille pas la musique qui dort, ell...(展开全部)

Implementing physical simulations for real-time games is a complex task that requires a solid understanding of a wide range of concepts from the fields of mathematics, physics, and software engineering. This book is a gems-like collection of practical articles in the area of game physics. Each provides hands-on detail that can be used in practical applications. The chapters cov...(展开全部)

Implementing physical simulations for real-time games is a complex task that requires a solid understanding of a wide range of concepts from the fields of mathematics, physics, and software engineering. This book is a gems-like collection of practical articles in the area of game physics. Each provides hands-on detail that can be used in practical applications. The chapters cov...(展开全部)

张翎, 浙江温州人。1983年毕业于复旦大学外文系。1986年赴加拿大留学，分别在加拿大的卡尔加利大学及美国的辛辛那提大学获得英国文学硕士和听力康复学硕士。现定居于多伦多市, 在一家医院的听力诊所任主管听力康复师。 二十世纪九十年代中后期开始在海外写作发表。主要作品有长篇小说《邮购新娘》（台湾版名《温州女人》）,《交错的彼岸》, 《望月》（海外版名《上海小姐》）, 中短篇小说集《雁过藻溪》，《盲约》，《尘世》等。曾获第七届十月文学奖（2000），第二届世界华文文学优秀散文奖（2003），首届加拿大袁惠松文学奖（2005），第四届人民文学奖（2006），第八届十月文学奖（2007），《中篇小说选刊》双年度优秀小说奖（2008）。小说多次入选各式转载本和年度精选本。其中篇小说《羊》，《雁过藻溪》和《余震》分别进入中国小说学会2003年度，2005年度和2...(展开全部)

Amazon.com In this winner of the 1990 Edgar Award for best mystery novel， Dave Robicheaux， a former New Orleans policeman， is pursued by a psychopath and flees his home on the Bayou Teche， in the heart of Louisiana， to find a new life in Montana. After settling near the Blackfoot River Canyon， Robicheaux finds himself smack dab in the middle of an illegal Mafia takeover of Ind...(展开全部)