Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, "Burning Chrome" collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds...(展开全部)

Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, "Burning Chrome" collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds...(展开全部)

Faulkner s first novel, Soldiers Pay (1926), is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran s homecoming, it examines the impact of soldiers return from war on the people particularly the women who were left behind.

This is a post war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart in Georgia.

The story of a wounded veterans homecoming, it is partly autobiographical, filled with hope, dark laughter, and despair.

A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancée who grew tired of waiting. Faulkner's first novel deals powerfully with...(展开全部)

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering...(展开全部)

本书简述了Chrome平台开发的概念、扩展与应用的区别及其常用功能，并结合具体场景给出了实例。主要介绍了Chrome扩展基础、Chrome扩展的UI界面、管理浏览器和部分高级API划分，讲解了文件系统、网络通信、操作USB设备和串口通信等多个与操作系统紧密相关的内容，还介绍了Chrome主题开发、支持国际化的程序开发，以及如何使用Angular框架进行开发。 本书以直观生动的实例帮助读者理解知识要点，以自顶向下的方式进行讲解，让读者先接触最直观的内容，然后慢慢深挖究其本质，非常适合开发者自学。

本书简述了Chrome平台开发的概念、扩展与应用的区别及其常用功能，并结合具体场景给出了实例。主要介绍了Chrome扩展基础、Chrome扩展的UI界面、管理浏览器和部分高级API划分，讲解了文件系统、网络通信、操作USB设备和串口通信等多个与操作系统紧密相关的内容，还介绍了Chrome主题开发、支持国际化的程序开发，以及如何使用Angular框架进行开发。 本书以直观生动的实例帮助读者理解知识要点，以自顶向下的方式进行讲解，让读者先接触最直观的内容，然后慢慢深挖究其本质，非常适合开发者自学。

The year is AD100 and Rome stands supreme and unconquerable, from the desert sands of Mesopotamia to the misty highlands of Caledonia. But the might of Rome rests entirely on the shoulders of the legionaries, who stand strong against the barbarian hordes, pushing back the frontiers of the empire. This book a kind of unofficial guide for the new recruit, written in the same enga...(展开全部)