In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of sto...(展开全部)

What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in "How Fiction Works," the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from "What Maisie Knew "to "Make Way for Ducklings"--Wood takes the reader through th...(展开全部)

In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of sto...(展开全部)

What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in "How Fiction Works," the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from "What Maisie Knew "to "Make Way for Ducklings"--Wood takes the reader through th...(展开全部)

Douglas Crockford starts by looking at the fundamentals: names, numbers, booleans, characters, and bottom values. JavaScript’s number type is shown to be faulty and limiting, but then Crockford shows how to repair those problems. He then moves on to data structures and functions, exploring the underlying mechanisms and then uses higher order functions to achieve class-free obje...(展开全部)

Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda ...(展开全部)

埃里克•施密特（Eric Schmidt） 2001-2011年担任谷歌的首席执行官。在他的协助下，这家成立不久的硅谷公司成长为科技行业的全球领航者。他不仅负责建立合作关系和拓展商业人脉等对外事宜，还负责安排政府对话及建立适于高科技企业的领导方式。现任谷歌执行董事长。 在加入谷歌之前，埃里克在苹果公司以及太阳计算机系统有限公司均担任过领导职务。他拥有普林斯顿大学的电气工程学士学位，还于加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校摘取了计算机科学硕士与博士学位。他是美国总统科学技术顾问委员会以及英国首相咨询委员会的委员，还是经济学人集团、梅奥医学中心、以及可汗学院董事会的成员。埃里克通过他的施密特家庭基金会为慈善事业做出了贡献，他将重点放在气候变化问题上，为海洋及海洋生物研究拨款，同时也以自然科学及自然工程的尖端研究及前沿技术为重，为教育项目提供赞助。 乔纳森•罗森伯格（...(展开全部)

▼作者简介 罗伯特•罗杰斯 Robert Rogers 毕业于牛津大学。1972年加入英国下院服务部门，2011年成为下院书记官。2014年被时任首相卡梅伦提名为终身贵族。 罗德里•沃尔特斯 Rhodri Walters 毕业于牛津大学，哲学博士学位。于上个世纪70年代 初期开始供职于上院，曾任上院宣读书记官等职。 两人均于2014年退休，服务英国议会超过40年。

▼作者简介 罗伯特•罗杰斯 Robert Rogers 毕业于牛津大学。1972年加入英国下院服务部门，2011年成为下院书记官。2014年被时任首相卡梅伦提名为终身贵族。 罗德里•沃尔特斯 Rhodri Walters 毕业于牛津大学，哲学博士学位。于上个世纪70年代 初期开始供职于上院，曾任上院宣读书记官等职。 两人均于2014年退休，服务英国议会超过40年。

▼作者简介 罗伯特•罗杰斯 Robert Rogers 毕业于牛津大学。1972年加入英国下院服务部门，2011年成为下院书记官。2014年被时任首相卡梅伦提名为终身贵族。 罗德里•沃尔特斯 Rhodri Walters 毕业于牛津大学，哲学博士学位。于上个世纪70年代 初期开始供职于上院，曾任上院宣读书记官等职。 两人均于2014年退休，服务英国议会超过40年。