The inside story of one of the great intellectual breakthroughs of our time—the first great decipherment of an ancient script—now revised and updated. In the past dozen years, Maya decipherment has made great strides, in part due to the Internet, which has made possible the truly international scope of hieroglyphic scholarship: glyphic experts can be found not only in North Ame...(展开全部)

Michael Coe's classic inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time--the last great decoding of an ancient script--has been updated throughout and now includes an epilogue that brings the reader up to date in the fast-changing field of Maya decipherment. Among the more exciting advances to be described are: * the discovery of the specific Maya languag...(展开全部)

作者： 迈克尔·道格拉斯·科 （Michael Douglas Coe，1929—2019） 美国考古学家、人类学家、铭文学家，主要研究前哥伦布时期的中美洲，特别是玛雅文明，被誉为20世纪后半叶最重要的玛雅学者之一。他著述颇丰，作品包括《玛雅》（The Maya，合著）、《墨西 哥：从奥尔梅克人到阿兹特克人》（Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs，合著）、《释读玛雅文字》（Reading the Maya Glyphs，合著）等。 译者： 武忠明 1989年生，河南濮阳人，毕业于中国人民大学文学院，译有《贝尔维尤》《超凡之心》等。

After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air traffic control system that guides our plane in for a landing, software is shaping our world: it creates new ways of undertaking tasks, speeds up and automates existing...(展开全部)

An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths. After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air traffic control system that gu...(展开全部)

To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent c...(展开全部)

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella S...(展开全部)

All of the tradition-based canons that governed the world of haute couture since the fifties were subverted by the creative genius of stylists who forged the history of today’s fashion. Designers such as Franco Moschino, Christian Lacroix, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, and Thierry Mugler went beyond the preciousness of fabrics, the studied geometry, and immobility of fi...(展开全部)

舍甫琴柯1930年出生于苏联乌克兰的一个医生的家庭。1954年于莫斯科国际关系学院毕业后作为研究生继续进修，1956年进入苏联外交部国际组织司工作。因颇受葛罗米柯的赏识，很快出任苏联驻外使团中的高级职务。他曾任葛罗米柯的顾问。最后于1973年出任联合国副秘书长。1975年，他在联合国副秘书长任内投靠美国中央情报局，沦为该局的特务，为美国窃取了大量有关苏联内政外交的机密情报。1978年，舍甫琴柯正式叛逃，在美国定居。