How old is the Earth? How fast can you think? How long is a light year and how short is a femtosecond? What does Greenwich Mean Time mean? Can you tell the time with flowers? When did time itself begin? This lighthearted, illustrated miscellany goes a long way to answering some of these questions and also presents a whole range of other amazing facts and figures that reveal the...(展开全部)

Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late twenties, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he rides to get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to travel, to go shopping, to stay sane, and to skip bath time with his kids. He's no Sunday pedal pusher. So when the time came for a new bike, he decided to pull out all ...(展开全部)

This is a book about the meaning of time, what it is, when it has started, how it flows and where to. It examines the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offers startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal.

The traditional association between time and creation is at the heart of science, cosmology, and religion. When scientists began to explore the implications of Einstein's time for the universe as a whole, they discovered that time is elastic, and can be warped by rapid motion or gravitation, that time cannot be meaningfully divided into past, present, and future, nor does time ...(展开全部)

This is a book about the meaning of time, what it is, when it has started, how it flows and where to. It examines the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offers startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal.

The traditional association between time and creation is at the heart of science, cosmology, and religion. When scientists began to explore the implications of Einstein's time for the universe as a whole, they discovered that time is elastic, and can be warped by rapid motion or gravitation, that time cannot be meaningfully divided into past, present, and future, nor does time ...(展开全部)

勒内·戈西尼，生于巴黎。后来他们全家移民到阿根廷，勒内·戈西尼在布宜诺斯艾利斯的法国小学和中学上学。 1950年初回到法国后，他便创造了一系列传奇人物。与桑贝创造了小尼古拉的形象，他创作的儿童语言后来造就了这位小学生的成功。然后戈西尼与阿尔贝·于得左创造了阿斯特里克这一人物，这个小个子高卢人的名声大振，这套丛书也被译成了107种文字。阿斯特里克的历险记成为世界上阅读最多的著作之一。同时戈西尼与英里斯一起创作了《吕基·律克》，与塔巴里创造了《巴格达怪杰》，与戈特利布创造了《丹哥文件》。 作为《飞行员》杂志的主编，他改革了连环画的风格，使之成为“第九种艺术”。 戈西尼在电影方面与于得左和达尔戈一起创建了IDEFIX电影摄制公司。他拍摄了一些著名的动画片，包括《阿斯特里克与克娄巴特拉》、《阿斯特里克的十二项壮举》、《戴西城》、《...(展开全部)

勒内·戈西尼，生于巴黎。后来他们全家移民到阿根廷，勒内·戈西尼在布宜诺斯艾利斯的法国小学和中学上学。 1950年初回到法国后，他便创造了一系列传奇人物。与桑贝创造了小尼古拉的形象，他创作的儿童语言后来造就了这位小学生的成功。然后戈西尼与阿尔贝·于得左创造了阿斯特里克这一人物，这个小个子高卢人的名声大振，这套丛书也被译成了107种文字。阿斯特里克的历险记成为世界上阅读最多的著作之一。同时戈西尼与英里斯一起创作了《吕基·律克》，与塔巴里创造了《巴格达怪杰》，与戈特利布创造了《丹哥文件》。 作为《飞行员》杂志的主编，他改革了连环画的风格，使之成为“第九种艺术”。 戈西尼在电影方面与于得左和达尔戈一起创建了IDEFIX电影摄制公司。他拍摄了一些著名的动画片，包括《阿斯特里克与克娄巴特拉》、《阿斯特里克的十二项壮举》、《戴西城》、《...(展开全部)

Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world. In a series of arguments and readings, he offers an account of narrative as both anticipation and retrospection, linking fictional time experiments ...(展开全部)