Many parents worry about the influence of video games on their children's lives. The game console may help to prepare children for participation in the digital world, but at the same time it socializes boys into misogyny and excludes girls from all but the most objectified positions. The new "girls' games" movement has addressed these concerns. Although many people associate vi...(展开全部)

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims...(展开全部)

London is hunting The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism. Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus V...(展开全部)

These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lems fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales (Wall Street Journal). Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.

简介：拉维尔  艾尔文  花西子  雨皖期  余安柯  洁夕斯纯作者自娱自乐，可以跳过我的文章呀那是我第一次遇到那座山，自然听不得好言相劝我愿幻作晚星， 照亮你彻夜不熄的孤影浮世三千 不得有三水中月 镜中花 梦中你月可求 花可得唯你 求而不得自古多情空余恨好梦由来最易醒辞别再无相见日终是一人渡春秋我好想再见到他，思念无处安放

简介：拉维尔  艾尔文  花西子  雨皖期  余安柯  洁夕斯纯作者自娱自乐，可以跳过我的文章呀那是我第一次遇到那座山，自然听不得好言相劝我愿幻作晚星， 照亮你彻夜不熄的孤影浮世三千 不得有三水中月 镜中花 梦中你月可求 花可得唯你 求而不得自古多情空余恨好梦由来最易醒辞别再无相见日终是一人渡春秋我好想再见到他，思念无处安放

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims...(展开全部)

Book Description To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense...(展开全部)

When the first flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman and his wife scurried about doing all the practical things grownups do when a snowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacy snowflakes on thier tongues. All the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book -- the frost fe...(展开全部)