William Olaf Stapledon was born in 1886 and educated at Abbotsholme School, Balliol College,Oxford,and Liverpool Univesity.After spending eighteen months with a shipping office in Liverpool and Port Said,he lectured extramurally for Liverpool University in English literature and industrial history. He served in France with the Friend's Ambulance Unit from 1915 to 1919.He subseq...(展开全部)

"Probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written" Arthur C. Clarke

Driven out into the night by the bitterness of his life, an Englishman finds himself contemplating the night sky - its immensity, its mystery. Without explanation, he suddenly finds himself floating out into its depths. There he explores strange worlds, links with other conscious beings, and witnesses the birth and death of civilizations. As the scope of his experiences expands...(展开全部)

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)

你！想要什麼嗎？無須恐慌、更不用要求些什麼，讓我的雙刀牽引著你…黑乃奈奈繪老師的「幕末新選組異譚」堂堂登場…

近藤局長派齊藤一到伊東身邊做間諜，獲知伊東將對他不利。於是秘密召集新撰組隊士，計劃暗殺伊東。結果新撰組反而被伊東派傭兵圍殺，陷入絕境。另一方面，鐵之助被誤會為殺死坂本龍馬的罪人，遭到追殺… 另外還有沖田總司童年往事的番外篇。

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation--all data had to pass through the needle's eye of the written signifier--but phonography, photography, and cinematography stored ...(展开全部)