Mankind now has within its grasp the power to synthesize true artificial life, playing out Dr Frankenstein's dream in both cyberspace and the real world. In this book, Steve Grand, a leading exponent of artificial life, provides the first authoritative and comprehensive tour of the frontiers of this burgeoning new creation. He surveys what has been achieved so far and looks at ...(展开全部)

From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive new book.With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Leslie Jamison offer...(展开全部)

A novel of blood and vengeance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Godfather . Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II Europe. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose-or to be taken from him. Captured by the Nazis, Michael was treated as an experiment. A piece of meat. A subjec...(展开全部)

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, gracias a su prodigiosa memoria y a su talento para descifrar textos codificados, Mike Rogan ingresa en la Seccion de Inteligencia del Ejercito americano, poco despues de casarse con Christine. A raiz del desembarco de las tropas americanas en Francia, Rogan es enviado a Europa en mision de escucha de mensajes. Pero por un error cae, junto a C...(展开全部)

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures®, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevit...(展开全部)

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures[registered], a revolutionary computer game that allows players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems - creatures that live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevi...(展开全部)

[英] 格雷戈·麦吉沃恩 ● 现象级畅销书《精要主义》作者，被誉为“21世纪的史蒂芬·柯维””精要主义之父“，作为精要主义的提出者、倡导者和领导者，致力于帮助个人和企业摒弃琐碎，直抵精要，服务的客户包括苹果、谷歌、Facebook、Twitter、Adobe等多家世界优秀公司。 ● 在斯坦福大学 开办了“设计你的精要人生”课程，备受青睐和追捧；他还是《纽约时报》畅销书作家，《哈佛商业评论》和领英zui受欢迎作家之一，文章经常发表在《快公司》《财富》《赫芬顿邮报》等报刊。 ● 世界经济论坛全球青年领袖，多次受邀在”西南偏南“多元创新大会和艺术节、世界经济论坛等发表主题演讲，其思想影响了多国政要和众多知名企业家。

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals. It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard. “In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown’s work is essential.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human “At a time when fear, uncertainty, and our eve...(展开全部)

[英] 格雷戈·麦吉沃恩 ● 现象级畅销书《精要主义》作者，被誉为“21世纪的史蒂芬·柯维””精要主义之父“，作为精要主义的提出者、倡导者和领导者，致力于帮助个人和企业摒弃琐碎，直抵精要，服务的客户包括苹果、谷歌、Facebook、Twitter、Adobe等多家世界优秀公司。 ● 在斯坦福大学 开办了“设计你的精要人生”课程，备受青睐和追捧；他还是《纽约时报》畅销书作家，《哈佛商业评论》和领英zui受欢迎作家之一，文章经常发表在《快公司》《财富》《赫芬顿邮报》等报刊。 ● 世界经济论坛全球青年领袖，多次受邀在”西南偏南“多元创新大会和艺术节、世界经济论坛等发表主题演讲，其思想影响了多国政要和众多知名企业家。

In this work a political scientist seeks to offer a jargon-free introduction to the market system, for all readers with or without a background in economics. He assesses the character, rules, advantages and shortcomings of the institution co-ordinating modern economic and social life.