Emmanuel Guibert's first graphic biography, Alan's War, followed the wartime adventures of Alan Cope, a friend of the artist who served as an American GI in France during World War II. In How the World Was, Guibert revisits Cope's story, this time focusing on his childhood in California during the Great Depression. This remarkable graphic novel details the little moments that m...(展开全部)

Emmanuel Guibert's first graphic biography, Alan's War, followed the wartime adventures of Alan Cope, a friend of the artist who served as an American GI in France during World War II. In How the World Was, Guibert revisits Cope's story, this time focusing on his childhood in California during the Great Depression. This remarkable graphic novel details the little moments that m...(展开全部)

The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an "extraordinary"* story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative. (*Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth) Palo Alto's weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and mater...(展开全部)

尼·奥斯特洛夫斯基（1904-1936），苏联作家。出生在乌克兰一个贫困的工人家庭，11岁便开始当童工。1919年加入共青团，随即参加国内战争。1923年到1924年担任乌克兰边境地区共青团的领导工作，1924年加入共产党。由于他长期参加艰苦斗争，健康受到严重损害，到1927年，健康情况急剧恶化，但他毫不屈服，以惊人的毅力同病魔作斗争。同年底，他着手创作一篇关于科托夫斯基师团的“历史抒情英雄故事”（即《暴风雨所诞生的》）。不幸的是，唯一一份手稿在寄给朋友们审读时被邮局弄丢了。这一残酷的打击并没有挫败他的坚强意志，反而使他更加顽强地同疾病作斗争。 1929年，他全身瘫痪，双目失明。1930年，他用自己的战斗经历作素材，以顽强的意志开始创作长篇小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》。小说获得了巨大成功，受到同时代人的真诚而热烈的称赞。1934年，奥斯特洛夫斯基被吸收为...(展开全部)

尼·奥斯特洛夫斯基（1904-1936），苏联作家。出生在乌克兰一个贫困的工人家庭，11岁便开始当童工。1919年加入共青团，随即参加国内战争。1923年到1924年担任乌克兰边境地区共青团的领导工作，1924年加入共产党。由于他长期参加艰苦斗争，健康受到严重损害，到1927年，健康情况急剧恶化，但他毫不屈服，以惊人的毅力同病魔作斗争。同年底，他着手创作一篇关于科托夫斯基师团的“历史抒情英雄故事”（即《暴风雨所诞生的》）。不幸的是，唯一一份手稿在寄给朋友们审读时被邮局弄丢了。这一残酷的打击并没有挫败他的坚强意志，反而使他更加顽强地同疾病作斗争。 1929年，他全身瘫痪，双目失明。1930年，他用自己的战斗经历作素材，以顽强的意志开始创作长篇小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》。小说获得了巨大成功，受到同时代人的真诚而热烈的称赞。1934年，奥斯特洛夫斯基被吸收为...(展开全部)

Synopsis A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, How Late It Was, How Late opens one Sunday morning in Glasgow, Scotland, as Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting, awakens in a lane and tries to remember the two-day drinking binge that landed him there. Then, things only get worse. Sammy gets in a fight with some soldiers, lands in jail, and ...(展开全部)

Synopsis A raw, wry vision of human survival in a bureaucratic world, How Late It Was, How Late opens one Sunday morning in Glasgow, Scotland, as Sammy, an ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting, awakens in a lane and tries to remember the two-day drinking binge that landed him there. Then, things only get worse. Sammy gets in a fight with some soldiers, lands in jail, and ...(展开全部)

'...a tour de force...prepare to be amazed' - John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO, The Vanguard Group. A bold new look at the continuing era of prosperity - how we got here, and where we could be headed. Why didn't the Florentines invent the steam engines and flying machines that Da Vinci sketched? What kept the master metallurgists of ancient Rome from discovering electricit...(展开全部)

关于作者 诺姆•乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky，1928－），美国著名学者和政治活动家，学术领域里的领袖人物，政治活动中的旗手。在学术领域里，他兴趣众多，涉猎广泛，著述丰厚，成就卓越，语言学、哲学、心理学和逻辑学等，均有其不灭的足迹；他的影响还遍及人工智能、认知科学、数学、音乐理论等方面。在政治活动中，他以“自由意志的社会主义”为基石，以博大的人道主义情怀，关心民众的疾苦和国家的命运，是欧美20世纪著名的“公共知识分子”。他反对越南战争，抨击霸权主义行径，批判美国内政和外交，多次被捕。他不仅被美国前总统尼克松列入“仇敌录”，还被恐怖分子列入“黑名单”。2011年，他因其“经久不衰的勇气、对强权的批判分析和对人权的促进”荣获悉尼和平奖。 本书淋漓尽致地展示了作为“现代语言学之父”和“我们时代的英雄”的乔姆斯基的政治理念和人格魅力。 关于译者 季广...(展开全部)

According to "The New York Times," Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight intact, delivered in clear, acc...(展开全部)