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)

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)

• Dispells many myths about Blitzkrieg Uses the experiences of the ordinary soldiers based on Unpublished sources The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939-41 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to German success quickly, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them. The false conclusions dra...(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)

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)

戴芙妮•米勒 是哈佛大学医学博士，著名医师，兼加州大学医学教授。同时，她还是一名颇受欢迎的作家，为《华盛顿邮报》等媒体撰写专栏文章。过去十年，她的教学与写作都在探讨生物医学和自然科学的前沿问题。 当她面临诸多患者的病症难题，无法在传统医疗找到完整且令人信服的诊疗方案时，开始关注农业生态与人体之间的联系，她深入全球各地的传统社区及农场，探寻健康与自然之间关系，并撰写了这本《重新认识身体》，开启了全新的健康理念，受到医学界广泛关注，在美国引发了一场全新的生活方式的改变。

Women in today’s advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to “lean in.” The media and government champion women’s empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women―lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others―give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How d...(展开全部)

theory of human evolution and history based on ever-increasing mutual dependency between humans and things In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and the newer one of a directionless process of natural selection. Instead, he pro...(展开全部)

Women in today’s advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to “lean in.” The media and government champion women’s empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women―lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others―give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How d...(展开全部)