The Museum of Unconditional Surrender -- by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic -- begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects -- a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc. -- like the fictional pieces of the novel itself, are seemingly random...(展开全部)

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender -- by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic -- begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects -- a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc. -- like the fictional pieces of the novel itself, are seemingly random...(展开全部)

杜布拉夫卡·乌格雷西奇（Dubravka Ugrešić，1949—2023），克罗地亚裔荷兰籍作家，出生于前南斯拉夫，在萨格勒布大学就读期间，主修俄语文学及比较文学，并开始文学创作，毕业后留校从事文学理论研究工作，于1981年开始发表文学作品。1991年，南斯拉夫内战爆发，杜布 拉夫卡因公开反对战争及民族主义，遭到国内舆论的猛烈攻击，于1993年被迫离开克罗地亚。此后，杜布拉夫卡先后在哈佛大学、哥伦比亚大学和柏林自由大学等多所大学任教。1996年定居荷兰阿姆斯特丹，从事小说创作、文化评论、翻译、文学研究及编辑出版等工作，致力于推动母语的开放性，维护文化的连续性。 著有《渡过意识之流》《谎言文化》《无条件投降博物馆》《多谢不阅》《疼痛部》《芭芭雅嘎下了一个蛋》《狐狸》等作品，已被翻译为三十多种语言，获南斯拉夫NIN奖、奥地利国家欧洲文学奖、纽斯塔特国...(展开全部)

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth.

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth.

近百年来，年鉴学派引起了争议：它的拥趸们革新了历史研究，扩展了经济、社会和文明史学术研究允许的主题数量，推翻了19世纪历史学家的做法，显然支持一种原创的、跨学科的方法。 年鉴学派的反对者坚称这是年鉴历史学家流传的故事的一部分。从反对者的角度审视年鉴，一个完全不同的画面浮现出来，其中一系列跨越边界的学者的攻击和妥协使得年代学派关于研究过去的建议受到了偏转。由于文化、教育、意识形态和宗教承诺以及现代政治文化在年鉴和他们的反对者之间的辩论中的相互联系，该分析采用广角镜头，以提出人类历史研究的新视野。

This book teaches functional programming through creative applications in music and sound synthesis. Readers will learn the Haskell programming language and explore numerous ways to create music and design virtual instruments with concise, elegant code.