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)

From Homeric gods to galaxies, from love affairs to perspective in painting, Paul Feyerabend revelled in the physical and cultural abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. From this fraction, scientists, artists, all of us construct encompassing abstractions and stereo...(展开全部)

From Homeric gods to galaxies, from love affairs to perspective in painting, Paul Feyerabend revelled in the physical and cultural abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. From this fraction, scientists, artists, all of us construct encompassing abstractions and stereo...(展开全部)

This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Mace...(展开全部)