The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator. In fact, most cities claim to be compiled of neighborhoods, but this strays far from the term's original meaning - a spatial unit that people relate to. Neighborhood seeks to dispel this common misconception by integrating a complex historical record and multidisciplinary literature to produ...(展开全部)

Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer continues his "wildly though- provoking" science fiction saga of a sentient World Wide Web. Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH-the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the Unite...(展开全部)

Caitlen Decter could never have anticipated what was coming when she first sensed a strange presence on the internet Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended blind mathematics genius Caitlin Decter and has grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH - the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any th...(展开全部)

One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique’s wife is in the midst ...(展开全部)

西奥多·C·贝斯特(Theodore C. Bester)，美国斯坦福大学人类学博士，曾先后在康奈尔大学和哥伦比亚大学执教。现为哈佛大学人类学系主任及日本研究中心教授。 贝斯特关于日本社会和文化的著作广博而精深，尤以对当代东京的民族志研究而著名。他曾担任美国人类学学会东亚人类学部及都市人类学部主任。

In the vastness of Tokyo these are tiny social units, and by the standards that most Americans would apply, they are perhaps far too small, geographically and demographically, to be considered "neighborhoods." Still, to residents of Tokyo and particularly to the residents of any given subsection of the city, they are socially significant and geographically distinguishable divis...(展开全部)

Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer continues his "wildly though- provoking" science fiction saga of a sentient World Wide Web. Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH-the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the Unite...(展开全部)

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.' For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last, the f...(展开全部)

The Night Watch series has caused a sensation never before seen in Russia -- its popularity is frenzied and unprecedented, and driven by a truly great, epic story. In 2005 Fox Searchlight announced it had acquired the Russian film adaptation for an American release. Interest in the books here is now set to reach a fever pitch. Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a ...(展开全部)

费正清（John King Fairbank）是世界上最负声望的中国问题观察家。在第二次世界大战期间，他曾在中国研读、旅行、教学。1955-1973年费正清担任哈佛大学东亚研究中心主任，并担任哈佛的希根森（Francis Lee Higginson）历史讲座教席。直至他逝世前（1991年），他领导着美国的中国问题的学术研究。当今美国诸多有影响的中国问题专家皆出于其门下。在中美正式建立外交关系前夕，两国高层领导人案头摆放的就是他的《美国与中国》。 费正清的主要著作有：《美国与中国》（The United States and China），《伟大的中国革命（1800-1985年）》（The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985)、《观察中国》（China Watch）及《中国：传统与变迁》（China:Tradition...(展开全部)