How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash,...(展开全部)

How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash,...(展开全部)

Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire w...(展开全部)

Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire w...(展开全部)

In their second collaboration, biographers Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman present the story of Claude Shannon—one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century and the architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded. Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digi...(展开全部)

吉米·索尼（Jimmy Soni），《纽约观察家》和《华盛顿观察家报》编辑，《赫芬顿邮报》执行编辑、演讲撰稿人，他的作品和评论发表在《石板》、《大西洋月刊》和美国有线电视新闻网等媒体上。 罗伯·古德曼（Rob Goodman），哥伦比亚大学博士，《石板》《大西洋月刊》《政客》等刊物撰稿人，他的学术作品发表在《美国政治学评论》《政治思想史》等期刊上。

In their second collaboration, biographers Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman present the story of Claude Shannon—one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century and the architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded. Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digi...(展开全部)

吉米·索尼（Jimmy Soni），《纽约观察家》和《华盛顿观察家报》编辑，《赫芬顿邮报》执行编辑、演讲撰稿人，他的作品和评论发表在《石板》、《大西洋月刊》和美国有线电视新闻网等媒体上。 罗伯·古德曼（Rob Goodman），哥伦比亚大学博士，《石板》《大西洋月刊》《政客》等刊物撰稿人，他的学术作品发表在《美国政治学评论》《政治思想史》等期刊上。

In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism. Whether through exquisite-corpse drawi...(展开全部)