It had occurred to her early that in her position--that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpie--she should know a great many persons without their recognising the acquaintance.

At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day. In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over...(展开全部)

老舍（1899－1966），原名舒庆春，字舍予。北京市人。中国现代小说家、著名作家，杰出的语言大师。老舍的代表作有长篇小说《骆驼祥子》、《老张的哲学》、《四世同堂》、《二马》、《离婚》等，剧本《残雾》、《方珍珠》、《面子问题》、《春华秋实》、《龙须沟》、《茶馆》等，报告文学《无名高地有了名》，中篇小说《月牙儿》、《我这一辈子》等，另有短篇小说集《赶集》等。

老舍（1899－1966），原名舒庆春，字舍予。北京市人。中国现代小说家、著名作家，杰出的语言大师。老舍的代表作有长篇小说《骆驼祥子》、《老张的哲学》、《四世同堂》、《二马》、《离婚》等，剧本《残雾》、《方珍珠》、《面子问题》、《春华秋实》、《龙须沟》、《茶馆》等，报告文学《无名高地有了名》，中篇小说《月牙儿》、《我这一辈子》等，另有短篇小说集《赶集》等。

What happens when Kafka’s idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers. Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He’s been hailed a profit and ...(展开全部)

What happens when Kafka’s idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers. Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He’s been hailed a profit and ...(展开全部)

Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing which developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the post-war modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John...(展开全部)