This memoir of James Stavridis' two years in command of the destroyer USS Barry reveals the human side of what it is like to be in charge of a warship--for the first time and in the midst of international crisis. From Haiti to the Balkans to the Arabian Gulf, the Barry was involved in operations throughout the world during his 1993???1995 tour. Drawing on daily journals he kept...(展开全部)

杜黑1869年5月30日，杜黑出生于意大利南部那不勒斯以北23公里处一个名叫卡塞塔的小镇。他出身于军人世家，家中几代都为萨伏依王室服务。由于受家庭熏陶，杜黑自幼立志继承父业，从军习武。他先是进入都灵军事工程学校学习，由于学习刻苦，成绩优异，1888年毕业时，被直接授予炮兵中尉军衔，时年19岁。后来，杜黑又进入陆军大学学习，研究有关现代战争的战略战术以及战争中的后勤问题。毕业后，他被派到陆军许多岗位上工作。无论在哪里，他都致力于科学技术与军事应用相结合。深厚的科技知识和军事知识功底，使他工作成绩十分突出，很快就晋升为上尉，并调到陆军参谋部工作。20世纪初，他受命参加研究意大利军队的机械化问题，预见到飞机在军事上将有重大的作用，从此走上了一条探索研究空军理论的坎坷人生之路。 1903年12月17日，美国莱特兄弟在北卡罗来纳州的基蒂霍克首次驾驶一架有动力的...(展开全部)

Book Description Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for 28 years and it shows in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other's eccentricities. What begins as a day trip to a funeral becomes an adventure in the unexpected. Book Dimension length: (cm)17.1 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.6

狄考文，19世纪美国基督教北长老会来华传教士、教育家、翻译家和慈善家、中国近代科学教育的先驱。在山东从事宣教、教育长达45年之久，创办了中国第一所现代高等教育机构文会馆、广文大学（齐鲁大学之前身）；开设博物馆，传播西方的科学与文化，被誉为“十九世纪后期最有影响的传教士教育家”。在其人生最后十八年，担任圣经翻译委员会主席，主持翻译了流传至今的圣经中文译本“和合本”。

Appearing here in English for the first time, this isF.W.J. Schelling's vital document of the attempts of German idealism and Romanticism to recover a deeper relationship between humanity and nature and to overcome the separation between mind and matter induced by the modern reductionist program. Written in 1799 and building upon his earlier work, "First Outline of a System of ...(展开全部)

Software has replaced a diverse array of physical, mechanical, and electronic technologies used before 21st century to create, store, distribute and interact with cultural artifacts. It has become our interface to the world, to others, to our memory and our imagination - a universal language through which the world speaks, and a universal engine on which the world runs. What el...(展开全部)

The Lessons of History is a book by historians Will Durant and Ariel Durant. In The Lessons of History the authors provided a summary of periods and trends in history they had noted upon completion of their momentous eleven volume The Story of Civilization. Will Durant stated that he and Ariel "made note of events and comments that might illuminate present affairs, future proba...(展开全部)

When we talk about education, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery", with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy. Ba...(展开全部)

威尔•杜兰特（Will Durant，1885―1981），美国著名学者，终身哲学教授，普利策奖（1968年）和自由勋章（1977年）获得者。 他先后在美国圣彼得学院和哥伦比亚大学接受高等教育。后来进入哥伦比亚大学研究生物学，并在美国著名哲学家杜威的指导下攻读哲学，1917年获哥大博士学位。1926年，他出版了《哲学的故事》，获得出乎意料的成功。随后，他花了四十余年的时间完成了广受好评的重要著作——11卷的《世界文明史》。终其一生，杜兰特都热情致力于将哲学和知识从学术的象牙塔中解放出来。

The Lessons of History is a book by historians Will Durant and Ariel Durant. In The Lessons of History the authors provided a summary of periods and trends in history they had noted upon completion of their momentous eleven volume The Story of Civilization. Will Durant stated that he and Ariel "made note of events and comments that might illuminate present affairs, future proba...(展开全部)