This is a bold vision of the electronic media and the nature of reality in a world increasingly wired to technology. It proposes and explores concepts such as: whether democracy is outmoded and must be redesigned to reflect how technology affects power structures; whether the electronic media have extended our psychology as well as our nervous systems and our bodies; whether ar...(展开全部)

彼得·J·本特利(Peter J. Bentley) 1972年出生，24岁取得博士学位。专精于人工智能、演化运算、计算机的类神经网络、类免疫系统、生物群体智能，以及其他数字生物科技领域的相关研究。目前任教于英国伦敦大学学院（UCL）及韩国高等科学与技术研究院（KAIST），UCL的荣誉资深研究员，同时还是《连线》杂志的特约编辑。 本特利有个小癖好，爱给大众讲科学。广播上做节目聊科学，科学咖啡馆的聚会上谈科学，写科普书讲科学。大科学家讲科学，信手拈来，生动有趣。

"Supremely entertaining...fascinating and wildly informative." —Kirkus Reviews "Stranger-than-fiction stories told with a novelist's flair." —Publishers Weekly The work of coroners is dark and mysterious, yet necessary for society to function. Adding to the mystery is Marin County, California, a place of natural beauty and celebrity residents where all is not as it seems, at le...(展开全部)

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer. Each chapter focuses on a different area of linguistics, including lexicography, grammar, discourse, register variation, language acquisition, and historical...(展开全部)

This is the second edition of the landmark book that standardized the language and terminology used throughout the criminal justice system. It classifies the critical characteristics of the perpetrators and victims of major crimes—murder, arson, sexual assault, and nonlethal acts—based on the motivation of the offender. The second edition contains new classifications on compute...(展开全部)

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

“The world that I long to inhabit is the one that Charlie Mackesy has created – a world of infinite kindness, wisdom, mutual care and tenderness, and true love between real friends. My prayer/hope is that our world will become more like this one.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic)

A book for all ages, a book for all time. Adapted into a short animated film, coming this Christmas. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online. They've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital walls. They...(展开全部)

With Peter Jackson's Acadamy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King. The Art of The Return of the King illustrates the creative development of the film from sketch to special eff...(展开全部)