Midway through the reign of Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, mass hysteria broke out. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land clipping off the ends of men's queues (braids worn by royal decree) and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In this book, Kuhn chronicles this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulst...(展开全部)

Midway through the reign of Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, mass hysteria broke out. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land clipping off the ends of men's queues (braids worn by royal decree) and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In this book, Kuhn chronicles this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulst...(展开全部)

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves....(展开全部)

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power--the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves....(展开全部)

Book Description How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. But what really aroused Anne's suspicion was when she learned of the doctor's link to the murder of a famous b...(展开全部)

A must-read for anyone who cares about the future of digital media, The Mobile Frontier explains not only the technological revolution that's upon us, but also the behavioral, cultural, and psychological changes (and opportunities) ushered in by mobile. If you're not listening to Rachel Hinman, you're not hooked up right. ----Josh Clark, Author, Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhon...(展开全部)

In the tradition of international bestsellers, "Future Shock" and "Megatrends," Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings "The Mobile Wave," a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of mobile intelligence--the fifth wave of computer technology. "The Mobile Wave "argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it's impossible for us to s...(展开全部)

迈克尔·塞勒，（Michael Saylor）是上市公司美国微战略公司的董事长兼首席执行官。他在麻省理工学院获得航空航天工程学位，以及自然科学，科技和社会学学位。迈克尔?塞勒是一位科学历史学家，也是一位令人敬畏的知识分子，Slate称他“令人着迷”。他不仅是一位高科技企业家，还是一位严肃的学者，他的商业成就来源于他自大学起---甚至从童年开始---就对托马斯.库恩所称之为“科学革命的结构”的痴迷。他曾经接受CBS电视节目“60 Minutes”的访问，PBS“Charlie Rose”访谈节目的采访，并作为专访人物出现在Newsweek，Time，Slate，The New Yorker，和The Washington Post等报刊杂志上。

A young woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube station, and finds herself of a ship bound for South Africa...Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her -- and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and ...(展开全部)

* Learn how to use your existing skills to move into mobile web development * Discover the new possibilities of mobile web development, and understand its limitations * Get detailed coverage of how JavaScript and Ajax are used in the mobile environment to create effective user interfaces * Learn about mobile technologies such as HTML5, SMS, and WAP * Understand variations of pl...(展开全部)