The Supernatural North is the latest in a long line of books by Darren W Ritson. This exciting new volume details scores of the most terrifying ghost tales and supernatural legends that the north of E

Start with a single shape. Repeat it in some way - translation, reflection over a line, rotation around a point - and you have created symmetry. Symmetry is a fundamental phenomenon in art, science, and nature that has been captured, described, and analyzed using mathematical concepts for a long time. Inspired by the geometric intuition of Bill Thurston and empowered by his own...(展开全部)

Start with a single shape. Repeat it in some way - translation, reflection over a line, rotation around a point - and you have created symmetry. Symmetry is a fundamental phenomenon in art, science, and nature that has been captured, described, and analyzed using mathematical concepts for a long time. Inspired by the geometric intuition of Bill Thurston and empowered by his own...(展开全部)

This book is the first monograph on the product designer Ross Lovegrove. Written by the designer himself, with a forward by Paola Antonelli, it presents a complete overview of the designer's career, featuring realized and unrealized project. While the main texts explains Ross Lovegrove's philosophy and way of working, the products descriptions reveal the main feature and charac...(展开全部)

This book is the first monograph on the product designer Ross Lovegrove. Written by the designer himself, with a forward by Paola Antonelli, it presents a complete overview of the designer's career, featuring realized and unrealized project. While the main texts explains Ross Lovegrove's philosophy and way of working, the products descriptions reveal the main feature and charac...(展开全部)

This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet of Things and the Parliament of Things, The Cinema of Things examines cinematic...(展开全部)

The diversity of contemporary London is extraordinary, and begs to be better understood. Never before have so many people from such diverse backgrounds been free to mix and not to mix in close proximity to each other. But increasingly people's lives take place behind the closed doors of private houses. How can we gain an insight into what those lives are like today? Not televis...(展开全部)

The seminal Epicurean text, in a brilliant new translation The Epicureans of ancient Rome discarded the ideas of life after death and of an interventionist God in favor of the tactile pleasures of nature. In The Nature of Things , Lucretius celebrates with wit and sharp perception the extraordinary breadth of the Epicurean belief system, ranging from the indestructibility ...(展开全部)

安德烈亚斯·埃什巴赫 Andreas Eschbach 作为德语科幻领军人，安德烈亚斯·埃什巴赫12岁开始写作，4部小说斩获德意志科幻奖，9部小说斩获库特-拉思维兹奖。这是德语科幻的至高荣誉，相当于中国的“银河奖”和“华语星云奖”。盛名之下，他的作品从时间到空间都展现出气吞山河的胸襟，把现今的前沿科技拓展到人类想象力的极致。 安德烈亚斯·埃什巴赫曾是航空航天工程师、软件工程师。这样的经历促成了代表作《万物之主》，让他能以硬科幻特有的严谨，推导出费米悖论的另一种解释。在他的文字里，沧海桑田、万家灯火，都不过是另一片黑暗森林中空寂的回声。

简介：       莱兰德小镇是由美国南北战争时期建立的一个小镇，乡野而安逸。但这个小镇也是美国失踪率最高的一个小镇，失踪的人大部分是孩子，也有老人和妇女，甚至还有身强力壮的成年男性。       有一天，一群还在上小学的孩子们开始在去学校的林间小路上看到一些幻影，一个非常高的男人在树林里看着他们，没有五官的那张脸在枯木间不停的移动着，像是在窥探自己的猎物       但是对于我们的主角来讲。他是猎物，我们才是猎人