How Linux and the free software movement undercut the high-tech titans. A riveting look at the rise and popular acceptance of Linux and how free software is changing the nature of business and wealth. Linux and the Free Software Movement began its siege on the seemingly unshakeable Microsoft in 1999. But the story began as far back as 1984 when Richard Stallman, a prolific code...(展开全部)

特里•普拉切特Terry Pratchett （1948—2015 ） 获得“卡内基大奖”“世界奇幻终身成就奖”“轨迹奖”“普罗米修斯奖”“星云奖” 作品全球销量过8500万册，被翻译成37种语言出版 经典奇幻《碟形世界》系列是他的代表作 因文学成就两次获得大英帝国爵士称号 大师级奇幻作家、儿童文学作家，1948年出生于英国白金汉郡。他被称为“我们时代的托尔金”。 普拉切特认为奇幻小说的重点不是魔法，而是以另一种角度看世界。他的作品不同于以托尔金为代表的“严肃奇幻”，常打破常规，从经典文学、民间故事或童话中汲取灵感，并进行荒诞的、幽默且具有现实意义的再创作。他的代表作《碟形世界》被认为是这类幽默奇幻的代名词。《卫报》评价他的作品“不是在创造另一个世界，而是在重新想象我们的世界”，并盛赞其“发现了高于文学的事物”。 普拉切特也是当代成功的畅销书作家，作...(展开全部)

‘The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot’ It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. The eccentric duo, Graff and Siggy, embark on an adventure-fi...(展开全部)

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller. From the Paperback edition.

From a two-time Olympic coach and creator of the Pose Method who has trained the running elite, an essential guide for all runners seeking to go faster and farther without injury Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run—and the wildly popular natural running trend it sparked—changed the way we think about running, but it has also prompted many questions: Have we been running the wro...(展开全部)

Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham’s writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking as a guide Banham’s habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham’s early en...(展开全部)

The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization—“neoliberalism”—took root in the United States under Ronald Reagan and in Britain under Margaret Thatcher. But why did neoliberal policies gain such prominence in these two countries and not in similarly industrialized Western countries such ...(展开全部)

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand t...(展开全部)

This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player makes you forget everything you think you know about jazz improvisation, post punk and the avant-garde Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance-band and record-session guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an uncompromisingly abstract music. As the Joseph Holbrooke Trio, with bassist Gavin Bryars ...(展开全部)