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)

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)

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)

To most of us, learning something 'the hard way' implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive....(展开全部)

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the...(展开全部)

Ron Jeffries 软件开发领域的领军人物，《敏捷宣言》起草人之一。他与Kent Beck和Ward Cunningham共同创造了敏捷开发实践方法“极限编程”（XP）。

Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth and happiness? Basic Income is a regular cash transfer from the state, received by all individual citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed only b...(展开全部)

Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth and happiness? Basic income is a regular cash transfer from the state, received by all individual citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed only b...(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。

The author's experience as a prisoner captured by American forces during WWII figures prominently in this haunting novel about the ultimate degradation of a man by war. Set in Leyte, where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the hammering blows of American forces, the story focuses on the disintegration of one man, Private Tamura. One by one, each of his ties to society i...(展开全部)