Alex Davies tells the “illuminating and important narrative” (Steven Levy, author of Facebook: The Inside Story) of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google, Uber, and other companies in a race to revolutionize our lives. The self-driving car has been one of the most vaunted technological breakthroughs of recent years. But early promises th...(展开全部)

Despite humanity s gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue - the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material - thereby leaving its generative and mutative associations with life neatly removed from the human sphere of thought and existence. Arguing that slime is a ...(展开全部)

美国加州大学欧文分校科学与经济学院逻辑与哲学科学系杰出教授，斯坦福大学哲学系教授。美国国家科学院院士，美国艺术与科学院院士。曾任美国哲学学会、科学哲学学会会长。

This book contains dazzling colour photographs and an entertaining narrative tell the story of our love affair with cars. Close to 400 photographs in this handsome volume capture the excitement of automotive history, spotlighting the most innovative and important car design and their manufacturers, include many famous American models. The illustrations and words combine to re-c...(展开全部)

The task of finding the killer of a beautiful young woman found sprawled in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseilles to Paris is handed to an overworked, crime-weary police detective named Pierre Emile Grazziano, who would rather play hide-and-seek with his son than cat and mouse with a murderer

An Expert Guide to Software Performance Optimization From mobile and cloud apps to video games to driverless vehicle control, more and more software is time-constrained: It must deliver reliable results seamlessly, consistently, and virtually instantaneously. If it doesn’t, customers are unhappy–and sometimes lives are put at risk. When complex software underperforms or fails, ...(展开全部)