In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities --convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of cultural collapse. Jacobs pinpoints five pillars of our culture that are in serious decay: commu...(展开全部)

弗洛·康韦（Flo Conway）毕业于新墨西哥大学，获得新闻学学士学位。后于俄勒冈州大学获得硕士及博士学位。在那里，她开创了第一个跨学科的交流项目。 吉姆·西格尔曼（Jim Siegelman）以优异的成绩毕业于哈佛大学哲学系，他还担任过哈佛讽刺报的主席。后作为剑桥大学三一学院的奖学金获得者，在哲学、语言学和符号学方面进行了研究学习。 两人都是获奖记者、传播学研究人员，合著有《迷失》《神圣的恐怖》，现定居美国纽约市。

The Road Ahead is for people with disabilities and their families and those who help them transition to a quality adult life. This new edition adds fifty pages to a book that has received rave reviews from a wide range of readers. Covering key areas in the transition from school to adult life, it is edited by Keith Storey, Paul Bates, and Dawn Hunter, nationally recognized tran...(展开全部)

【英】詹姆斯·布莱德尔 作家、科技专家、记者和视觉艺术家。英国《卫报》电子杂志专栏作家。知名杂志《科克斯书评》（Kirkus）称之为：计算机时代的乔治·奥威尔。

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, cons...(展开全部)

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, cons...(展开全部)

Journeying through a dark, dark house, a black cat surprises the only inhabitant of the abandoned residence

Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as many as a decade before. If that rate of growth continues, one hundred billion hours of moving images will be made in the year 2025. In 1895 there was just above forty minutes of mo...(展开全部)

保罗•谢奇•乌塞（Paolo Cherchi Usai），现任荷兰Haghefilm Foundation 总监，曾任澳大利亚国家视听资料馆馆长、美国乔治?伊斯曼影像博物馆电影部门高级馆员、罗彻斯特大学电影学副教授，杰弗瑞?塞茨尼克电影保护学校校长。曾与人共同创办波尔德诺默片影展及国际早期电影研究促进会（DOMITOR）；他同时是美国国家电影保护局预备成员和国际电影资料馆联盟执行委员会委员。其著作有《无声电影导论》（Silent Cinema: An Introduction , 英国电影学院出版，2000）等。

French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts created to defeat capitalism have been recycled into business mantras that joyously affirm Power is vertical; potential is hori...(展开全部)