Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery forms a key element of the European Space Agency's 15th anniversary celebration activities for the 1990 launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As an observatory in space, Hubble is one of the most successful scientific projects of all time, both in terms of scientific output and its immediate public appeal. Hubble continues to have an enorm...(展开全部)

For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings... Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others? He may finally have met his...(展开全部)

Da Vinci, Galileo, Copernicus, Raphael, Michelangelo. These names recall an era in which an unprecedented rush of discovery broke through long-standing barriers of ignorance and connected the whole world, politically and economically, for the first time. We still think of such surges of human ingenuity as rare. But they don't have to be. Today, for instance, our resources are b...(展开全部)

◎人类如何朝着现代艺术、新的思维方式与战争狂奔而去？ ◎销量30万册，德国《明镜周刊》N0.1畅销书。 ◎文化消亡前最后的深呼吸。欧洲舞台，群星登场，肆意燃尽所有才华与激情。 ◎1913年，普鲁斯特在追忆他的似水流年；在米兰，第一家普拉达连锁店开业；杜尚把一个车轮安在一把餐椅上；弗洛伊德与里尔克一起开怀畅饮；一个叫作阿道夫·希特勒的奥地利年轻画家在兜售他清新的城市风景画…… —————————— 作者以冷峻幽默的笔触详细记录了特殊的1913年，巧妙地展开了一幅历史全景图。在文学、艺术和音乐领域，一切都被推向极致，仿佛没有明天。在巴黎、莫斯科、伦敦、柏林和威尼斯，社会精英层出不穷，他们的作品对我们的世界产生了持久的影响。人们喝酒、沉沦、写作、绘画，相互吸引又相互排斥，相互爱慕又相互诅咒。 在这一年里，似乎一切皆有可能。然而，璀璨的开端却隐藏着衰败的预兆...(展开全部)

[英]理查德•普拉特（Richard Platt），著者，英国知名科普作家。自1992年开始专注创作儿童科普作品，擅长用生动的文字、精彩的事实吸引孩子阅读。已先后出版70余部儿童科普图书。长期与DK、Walker等知名出版机构合作。其作品曾获得蓝彼得童书奖、斯马蒂斯大奖、凯特•格林纳威奖。 [英]詹姆斯•布朗（James Brown），绘者，英国著名版画与插图设计师，拥有丰富创作经验，擅长将“信息可视化”设计理念应用到艺术创作中，长期与V＆A、《卫报》、LV等合作。从小在父母创作童书的环境中长大，有时还会出现在他们的书中。受Walker邀请，将“信息可视化”的设计理念带入童书科普领域。

“Clear, accurate, and interesting. There is no better short introduction to the existential approach to psychology.” ―Dallas Morning News The brilliant psychologist Rollo May was a major force in existential psychology. Here, he brings together the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and other great thinkers to offer insights into its ideas and techniques. He pays particular atten...(展开全部)

The Discovery of Slowness--a huge commercial and critical success across Europe, where it is considered the popular author's master piece--recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847).Through the author's acute reading of history and his marvelous storytelling prowess, the reader follows John Franklin's development from awkward scho...(展开全部)