Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century. The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and co...(展开全部)

In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and will continue to demand, massive quantities of resources. Like every other major power in mo...(展开全部)

The publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought.The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its first day, The Origin of Species revolutionized science, philosophy, and theol...(展开全部)

经过30多年的准备和琢磨，斯拉法于1960年出版了《用商品生产商品：经济理论批判绪论》一书。斯拉法探究的问题是没有生产规模的变动或生产要素中的比例的变动的经济体系的特征，认为国民纯产品就是超过补偿生产资料所需要的产品的“剩余”，把生产看作是同样的商品既表现为生产资料、又表现为最终产品的一种“循环的过程”。这种研究方法正是复兴了古典学派的思想，所以，他时常被称为“新李嘉图主义者”。

经过30多年的准备和琢磨，斯拉法于1960年出版了《用商品生产商品：经济理论批判绪论》一书。斯拉法探究的问题是没有生产规模的变动或生产要素中的比例的变动的经济体系的特征，认为国民纯产品就是超过补偿生产资料所需要的产品的“剩余”，把生产看作是同样的商品既表现为生产资料、又表现为最终产品的一种“循环的过程”。这种研究方法正是复兴了古典学派的思想，所以，他时常被称为“新李嘉图主义者”。

Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development -- dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery...(展开全部)

Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development -- dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery...(展开全部)

If you can find a better bang for the buck than Wicked, please let me know. I picked up Wicked, knowing nothing except that its subject matter was the Wicked Witch of the West, to be drawn immediately into Maguire's splendidly imagined world of sentient animals, multiple societies, and unique physical laws. Wicked is an enthralling, great read, hugely entertaining. On top of al...(展开全部)

A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal’s most celebrated writers. Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, António, spends his days in a Lisbon hospital enduring the humiliations of severe illness. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he revisits fragments of his life and the people wh...(展开全部)

A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal’s most celebrated writers. Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, António, spends his days in a Lisbon hospital enduring the humiliations of severe illness. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he revisits fragments of his life and the people wh...(展开全部)