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Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that...(展开全部)

唐·伊德（Don ihde，1934－），波士顿大学哲学博士（1964），纽约州立大学石溪分校哲学系杰出教授（distinguished professor），当代著名技术哲学家和现象学家。 Don Ihde是纽约州立大学石溪分校哲学系教授，一位著述颇丰的当代美国当代哲学家，他的研究跨越了技术哲学和现象学。主要代表作有：Philosophy of Technology - An Introduction；Instrumental Realism - Interface Between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology；Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth; Bodies in Technology等。Ihde还主编了“印...(展开全部)

Embark on the most astounding of odysseys, a voyage into realms not only stranger than we can imagine but also far, far more beautiful. "Universe: A Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos" leads us into a celestial panorama that extends for 130 billion trillion kilometres (80 billion trillion miles) in every direction, and allows us to explore nearly 200 of the most extra...(展开全部)

Having drawn a startlingly prescient portrait of the Bosnian catastrophe in his bestseller, Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now travels more widely and ambitiously. In this gritty tour de force of travel writing and political reportage, he covers an arc from West Africa to Southeast Asia, across a world in which nation-states are giving way to warring nationalities and where metas...(展开全部)

A classic of nineteenth-century French literature, this science fiction tale delves into the depths of the Earth, and by so doing, reveals the staggeringly long history of our planet. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES : ? A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information ? A chronology of the author's life and work ? A timeline of s...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 罗伯特·D.卡普兰（Robert D. Kaplan，1952—）美国著名地缘政治专家，18本外交政策和游记类畅销书作者，两度被《外交政策》评为“全球100位顶尖思想者”之一。他的作品影响了克林顿和小布什两任美国总统的军事决策，《大西洋月刊》资深主笔、知名记者，现任欧亚集团高级顾问，曾任新美国安全中心高级研究员和美国五角大楼国防政策委员会委员。 卡普兰游历了近70个国家和地区，对世界政治局势和地缘政治深有体会，擅长运用游记的写作手法处理新闻和政治议题，其作品兼具文学性与地缘政治分析的严肃性，他与塞缪尔·亨廷顿、保罗·肯尼迪和弗朗西斯·福山并称“被最广泛阅读的描绘后冷战世界的作家”。其代表作有《无政府时代的来临》《巴尔干两千年》《季风》《即将到来的地缘战争》《世界的尽头》《东进鞑靼》《马可 ·波罗世界的回归》《荒野帝国》等。 ··· 【译...(展开全部)

Stung by the pioneering space successes of the Soviet Union - in particular, Gagarin being the first man in space, the United States gathered the best of its engineers and set itself the goal of reaching the Moon within a decade. In an expanding 2nd edition of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, David Woods tells the exciting story of how the resulting Apollo flights were conducted by...(展开全部)

Between 1968 and 1972, twenty four daring men journeyed from Earth to the Moon. This fascinating book traces what was a massive accomplishment right from the early launches through manned orbital spaceflights, detailing each step. Out of the battlefields of World War II came the gifted German engineers and designers who developed the V-2 rocket, which evolved into the powerful ...(展开全部)