Promises for the future were made; some sadly broken and some unfortunately honored. While we didn't get household jetpacks and personal serving-drinks-by-the-pool robots, or even our "orgasmatrons," we did get things like the super-fantastic building materials of the future-asbestos, lead, and foam. So just what was the utopian master plan for future households during the earl...(展开全部)

This book takes an affectionate journey around some of the atmospheric and occasionally mysterious ruins and follies that can be found in East Anglia. It might be a building that has a particular hi

保罗·奥斯特，1947年出生于美国新泽西州纽瓦克市一个犹太裔中产阶级家庭，毕业于哥伦比亚大学。他被视为美国当代最勇于创新的小说家之一。 保罗·奥斯特年轻时过着漂泊无定的生活，不断尝试各种工作。一九七〇年至一九七四年，他客居巴黎，靠翻译法国文学为生。 保罗·奥斯特的主要作品有小说《布鲁克林的荒唐事》、《纽约三部曲》、《幻影书》等。曾获法国美第奇最佳外国小说奖、西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王储文学奖，作品被翻译成三十多种文字。他编剧的电影《烟》于一九九六年获得柏林电影节银熊奖和最佳编剧奖。 保罗·奥斯特现定居纽约布鲁克林区。

保罗·奥斯特，1947年出生于美国新泽西州纽瓦克市一个犹太裔中产阶级家庭，毕业于哥伦比亚大学。他被视为美国当代最勇于创新的小说家之一。 保罗·奥斯特年轻时过着漂泊无定的生活，不断尝试各种工作。一九七〇年至一九七四年，他客居巴黎，靠翻译法国文学为生。 保罗·奥斯特的主要作品有小说《布鲁克林的荒唐事》、《纽约三部曲》、《幻影书》等。曾获法国美第奇最佳外国小说奖、西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王储文学奖，作品被翻译成三十多种文字。他编剧的电影《烟》于一九九六年获得柏林电影节银熊奖和最佳编剧奖。 保罗·奥斯特现定居纽约布鲁克林区。

So begins Paul Auster's The Brooklyn Follies, set against the backdrop of the contested US presidential election of 2000. Nathan and Tom are an uncle and nephew double-act - one in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from what was a once-promising academic career. By accident the pair wind up in the same Brooklyn nei...(展开全部)

This is the first comprehensive overview of the exciting field of the 'science of science'. Those concerned with maximizing their career impact and productivity, with their scientific creativity, with effective collaboration and with the metrics of assessment will better understand the fundamental workings of science. Big data analysis and quantitative tools help identify succe...(展开全部)

This is the first comprehensive overview of the 'science of science,' an emerging interdisciplinary field that relies on big data to unveil the reproducible patterns that govern individual scientific careers and the workings of science. It explores the roots of scientific impact, the role of productivity and creativity, when and what kind of collaborations are effective, the im...(展开全部)

This is the first comprehensive overview of the exciting field of the 'science of science'. Those concerned with maximizing their career impact and productivity, with their scientific creativity, with effective collaboration and with the metrics of assessment will better understand the fundamental workings of science. Big data analysis and quantitative tools help identify succe...(展开全部)

Of this satirical look at contemporary photography, Duane Michals has said, "The more serious you are, the sillier you have to be. I have a great capacity for foolishness. It’s essential." Whether parodying Wolfgang Tillmans or Andres Serrano, Sherrie Levine ( A Duane Michals Photograph of a Sherrie Levine Photograph of a Walker Evans Photograph ) or Cindy Sherman ( Who is Sydn...(展开全部)

Over the last four decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died two years ago, he was considered to be a thinker on a par with Foucault, Barthes, and Lacan--a public intellectual as influential to his generation as Sartre was to his. "Science of Science and Reflexivity" ...(展开全部)