This book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and sift good characters out of the place where they live in your imagination. Award-winning author Orson Scott Card explains in depth the techniques of inventing, developing and presenting characters, plus handling viewpoint in novels and short stories. With specific...(展开全部)

Orson Scott Card presents practical, in-depth instruction on how fiction writers can make the best choices in creating characters and handling viewpoint. The author shows how to put original yet realistic people into fiction.'

奥森·斯科特·卡德（Orson Scott Card） 美国科幻界享有极高声誉的作家之一，曾凭借《安德的游戏》和《死者代言人》连续两年包揽“雨果奖”和“星云奖”。卡德是一位多产作家，除了科幻小说，也创作当代奇幻故事、圣经小说、诗歌、电影剧本等不同类型的作品。他经常指导写作工坊和导演戏剧，并在南弗吉尼亚大学教授文学课。

IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU WILL SURVIVE.Kill each other within the time limit or die. It’s just another evening commute on the train, until the passengers are given an order they can’t disobey. Utter chaos ensues, but ordinary office worker Dokja Kim only feels an unsettling calm. He knows exactly how this will play out! The subway car, the passengers’ reactions, even the biz...(展开全部)

李泽厚，著名哲学家，湖南长沙人，生于1930年6月，1954毕业于北京大学哲学系，现为中国社会科学院哲学研究所研究员、巴黎国际哲学院院士、美国科罗拉多学院荣誉人文学博士。李泽厚成名于五十年代，以重实践、尚“人化”的“客观性与社会性相统一”的美学观卓然成家。八十年代，李泽厚不断拓展其学术论域，促引思想界在启蒙的 路径上艰辛前行。九十年代，李泽厚客居美国，出版了《论语今读》、《世纪新梦》等著作，对中国未来的社会建构给予沉甸甸的人文关怀。《论语》这本书所宣讲，所传布，所论证的那些道理、规则、主张、思想已经代代相传，长久地浸透在中国两千年来的政教体制、社会习俗、心理习惯和人们的行为、思想、言论、活动当中了。对孔子、《论语》和儒学，似乎还要做另一种工作，就是对这一“半宗教半哲学”的文化精髓既解构又重建的工作。培育人性感情、了解和区分宗教性私德与社会公德、重视和...(展开全部)

This elegant book by distinguished mathematician John Milnor, provides a clear and succinct introduction to one of the most important subjects in modern mathematics. Beginning with basic concepts such as diffeomorphisms and smooth manifolds, he goes on to examine tangent spaces, oriented manifolds, and vector fields. Key concepts such as homotopy, the index number of a map, and...(展开全部)

This elegant book by distinguished mathematician John Milnor, provides a clear and succinct introduction to one of the most important subjects in modern mathematics. Beginning with basic concepts such as diffeomorphisms and smooth manifolds, he goes on to examine tangent spaces, oriented manifolds, and vector fields. Key concepts such as homotopy, the index number of a map, and...(展开全部)

Yi-Fu Tuan is professor emeritus of geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Space and Place (Minnesota, 1977), Landscapes of Fear (Minnesota, 1982), and Escapism (1998).

The goal of learning theory is to approximate a function from sample values. To attain this goal learning theory draws on a variety of diverse subjects, specifically statistics, approximation theory, and algorithmics. Ideas from all these areas blended to form a subject whose many successful applications have triggered a rapid growth during the last two decades. This is the fir...(展开全部)

The purpose of this book is to introduce algebraic topology using the novel approach of homotopy theory, an approach with clear applications in algebraic geometry as understood by Lawson and Voevodsky. This method allows the authors to cover the material more efficiently than the more common method using homological algebra. The basic concepts of homotopy theory, such as fibrat...(展开全部)