Most art and technology projects pair artists with engineers or scientists: the artist has the conception, and the technical person provides the know-how. John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right. Design By Numbers is a reader-friendly tutorial on both the philo...(展开全部)

From the author of Zero, comes this "admirable salvo against quantitative bamboozlement by the media and the government" (The Boston Globe) In Zero, Charles Seife presented readers with a thrilling account of the strangest number known to humankind. Now he shows readers how the power of skewed metrics-or "proofiness"- is being used to alter perception in both amusing and danger...(展开全部)

约翰·多斯·帕索斯（John Dos Passos）（1896－1970），出生于美国芝加哥，当代最著名作家之一。他于1916年毕业于哈佛大学，之后加入美国红十字会救护队，参与一战。退役之后，帕索斯开始为多家报刊写作。他的处女作《一个人的开始》出版于1920年。之后共出版40多本书。 他的书聚焦于政治和社会问题，多从左翼立场出发。他忠实地记录了二十世纪美国阶级的苦难与富人阶级的颓废。随着政治观点趋向保守，他开始在作品中更多地反映美国文化。 人们公认帕索斯最重要的作品是他的《美国》三部曲。他的其他作品诸如《三个士兵》、《曼哈顿中转站》以及《哥伦比亚区》也为人所熟知。

在线阅读本书 A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, with vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, it has more in common with films than traditional novels.

Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic geometry of its crystals; it can start with a violin string and uncover the existence ...(展开全部)

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling...(展开全部)

Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a b...(展开全部)

Painting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer scale of nineteenth-century artistic production. With new quantitative evidence for more than five hundred thousand works of art, Diana Seave Greenwald provides fresh insights into the nineteenth century, and the extent to which art histori...(展开全部)