Time and Place -- Timeplace -- is a continuum of the mind, as fundamental as the spacetime that may be the ultimate reality of the material world.Kevin Lynch's book deals with this human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. The center of his interest is on how this innate sense af...(展开全部)

In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space. Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts a...(展开全部)

In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space. Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts a...(展开全部)

The authors use copious amounts of data ... to make the compelling case that any well-informed person should have seen the Great Recession coming. The essence of their book is that while financial crises come in different varieties, they are not mysteriously born of undersea earthquakes, but frequently occurring events that can be spotted and even controlled if politicians and ...(展开全部)

简介：一群小可爱在魔法学院的故事

简介：一群小可爱在魔法学院的故事

Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about and a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a tour around a shattered post-nuclear war Earth is not something he relishes, especially when he becomes central to an intrigue determining Earth's future.

艾莉森·简出生于英国的翰弗郡，长在德比郡。她就读于伦敦大学的平面设计专业，学习了绘画与专业插画的技巧，并以全班第一名的成绩毕业，之后就职于一家动漫工作室。 这样过了一两年，她决定改变职业方向，开始了插画家的职业生涯。现在她的插画作品遍布于各个领域，包括设计、广告、项目，以及她最热爱的童书创作。目前她正与阿德曼动画公司（Ardman Animation）合作，制作新版本的《胡桃夹子》动画电影。 艾莉森的画作非常具有特点，她利用一种叫做Alkyd（醇酸树脂）的油画颜料作画，在画布表面做一层快速涂抹，干了就会形成类似于龟裂的仿旧效果。很多小读者将她的画作可爱地称为“碎蛋壳画”。她在创作插画中非常注重趣味性，每张图之间都会暗藏承上启下的线索，并将大家耳熟能详的童话故事融入其中，使插画能够无限地延伸，增大了阅读的自主和自由度。 “让想象飞”是其代表作品，其中《...(展开全部)

Visualize This demonstrates how to explain data visually, so that you can present and communicate information in a way that is appealing and easy to understand. Today, there is a continuous flow of data available to answer almost any question. Thoughtful charts, maps, and analysis can help us make sense of this data. But the data does not speak for itself. As leading data exper...(展开全部)

Sie möchten mit Ihren Daten überzeugen statt mit Tortendiagrammen langweilen? Nathan Yau zeigt Ihnen in diesem Buch, wie Sie das schaffen. Neben wertvollen allgemeinen Dos & Don'ts zur Diagrammgestaltung gibt er Ihnen zunächst einen Überblick über die Tools und Technologien, die Sie benötigen: von Excel über Illustrator bis hin zu HTML, JavaScript und ArcGIS. Anschließend lerne...(展开全部)