Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the earl...(展开全部)

简介：即便黑魔王死去，恶魔的侵害尚未结束，那位男人将跨越多重宇宙来将幕后黑手开膛破肚

袁庚，改革开放的马前卒。1961年任中央调查部一局副局长，曾破获轰动世界的国民党谋划暗杀刘少奇的“湘江案”。1975年10月，他调任交通部外事局副局长，受部长叶飞委派调查招商局经营状况。完成调查后，他写了一份请示报告，他在报告中所提的建议成为中国实行改革开放政策的具体内容。1978年底，时任交通部香港招商局常务副董事长袁庚在李先念划拨的宝安县蛇口半岛（现深圳市南山区辖内）2.14平方公里土地上，坚持破冰之旅，创建蛇口工业区，被誉为中国改革开放实际运作第一人。在蛇口，他以“大不了回秦城监狱去”的大无畏精神，敢于冲破思想牢笼，在荆棘丛中杀出了一条血路，响亮地提出“时间就是金钱，效率就是生命”的口号，影响了全中国。他与蛇口广大创业者开创性地实施了工程承包、干部招聘、民主选举、同级报纸可以批评同级党委等举措，创建了24个全国首创或第一：一个进行民主选举；在全...(展开全部)

Force explores how humans interact with the material world in the course of their everyday activities. This book for the general reader also considers the significance of force in shaping societies and cultures. Celebrated author Henry Petroski delves into the ongoing physical interaction between people and things that enables them to stay put or causes them to move. He explore...(展开全部)

You are probably familiar with the popularized stories of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but have you read the original unabridged versions by Washington Irving? His skillfully written and colorful tales have much more meaning and depth. In Rip Van Winkle he makes a profound social comment about the changes happening in his America, and Sleepy Hollow isn't just...(展开全部)

《1984》描写了未来社会即1984年大洋国一个普通人的日常生活。在大洋国，权力高度集中在“党”英社的手中，到处张贴着党的领袖老大哥的画像，几乎到处都安有电屏幕，思想警察神出鬼没，人们主要指党员，无时无刻不在被监视、被监听，连自由地思想都是一种罪。主人公温斯顿·史密斯在真理部从事篡改历史的工作，他对所处的社会和老大哥渐渐地产生了怀疑，在与另一名党员朱莉雅秘密恋爱后，逐渐成为思想犯，被思想警察逮捕……全书文笔犀利冷峻，以惊人的敏锐洞察力、严密的逻辑推理和丰富的想象力刻画了未来极权主义社会的面貌，警醒世人提防这种预想中的黑暗成为现实。

A penguin has wings for a reason . . . doesnÕt he? Having a best friend with his own airplane is one thing, but actually experiencing what it feels like to fly by himself? Here is one penguin who believes this is precisely what he needs to feel complete. Only . . . if flying by himself is so wonderful, then why does he feel so empty? Because some experiences are better shared....(展开全部)

In this much-anticipated sequel to the internationally best-selling picture book Lost and Found, we re-visit the boy and the penguin after their trip to the South Pole! All seems well between the two friends, who enjoy spending time together, playing their favourite game! That is, until the penguin starts getting ideas above his station, wanting to fly, while ignoring the boy's...(展开全部)

In this much-anticipated sequel to the internationally best-selling picture book Lost and Found, we re-visit the boy and the penguin after their trip to the South Pole...The boy and the penguin still enjoy spending all their time together...That is, until the penguin starts to dream of flying, ignoring the boys advice that it is impossible. Running away, the penguin visits plac...(展开全部)

In this much-anticipated sequel to the internationally best-selling picture book Lost and Found, we revisit the boy and the penguin after their trip to the South Pole...The boy and the penguin still enjoy spending all their time together...That is, until the penguin starts to dream of flying, ignoring the boys advice that it is impossible. Running away, the penguin visits place...(展开全部)