在线阅读本书 Book Description "This book provides a strong foundation for impending entrepreneurs to aid, in determining the possible positive outcomes of the venture" - Marcy Freed, President, Vital Stim Incorporation. "This book deals very bravely with the opportunity of technology entrepreneurship. This is a great, and a courageous effort" - Jerome S. Engel, Executive Director, ...(展开全部)

If you're starting a business, the statistics prove that your best odds of success are in high technology industries: not just computing and telecom, but also biotech, electronics, manufacturing and materials, medical devices, robotics, and other knowledge-intensive fields. This is the first book to provide a methodology for finding those extraordinary opportunities. Shane show...(展开全部)

Ripley had kept his name and reputation clean, amazingly clean, considering. It would be most embarrassing for him if his interest in the Buckmaster Gallery were made public. The gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition. But now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake, it is of course. And he wants to talk to Derwatt....(展开全部)

In this harrowing illumination of the psychotic mind, the enviable Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But such a gracious life has not come easily. One inopportune inquiry, one inconvenient friend, and Ripley's world will come tumbling down--unless he takes decisive steps. In a ...(展开全部)

In this harrowing illumination of the psychotic mind, the enviable Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But such a gracious life has not come easily. One inopportune inquiry, one inconvenient friend, and Ripley's world will come tumbling down--unless he takes decisive steps. In a ...(展开全部)

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as spectacleand proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspe...(展开全部)

In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply the Prophet.In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries. Finding George Orwell i...(展开全部)

Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In Uncommon Ground, David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of ...(展开全部)

This book describes the step-by-step process of writing a ray tracer from scratch. Using numerous examples that illustrate the ray-tracing concept and processes in detail, the author presents a ray-tracer design and sample code that allows for extensibility, efficiency of the algorithms, and readability. Chapters begin with stated aims and include questions and exercises that a...(展开全部)

谢默斯·希尼(Seamus Heaney，1939-2013)，享誉世界的伟大诗人、剧作家、评论家、翻译家。1939年生于北爱尔兰德里郡，1961年毕业于贝尔法斯特女王大学，当过中学教师，后回母校任文学教师。二十多岁即以诗集《一位自然主义者之死》闻名诗坛。1972年和家人移居爱尔兰都柏林。曾任美国哈佛大学修辞学教授，英国牛津大学诗学教授。获艾略特诗歌奖、毛姆文学奖、史密斯文学奖等重要奖项，1995年因“其作品饱含抒情之美以及对伦理的深刻理解，凸显了日常生活的奇迹和历史的现实性”而获诺贝尔文学奖，被称为“继叶芝之后最伟大的爱尔兰诗人”。 译者简介 黄灿然，诗人、翻译家、评论家。1963年生于福建泉州，1978年移居香港，1988年毕业于暨南大学，曾长期任职香港大公报国际新闻翻译，现居深圳。2011年获华语文学传媒大奖年度诗人奖。近期译著有布罗茨基随笔...(展开全部)