It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay. Endless reams of artists unspool at the click of a button. New forms of musical discovery open up before your very eyes. This evolving digital landscape exists beyond the radio, HMV and even the most extensive record collection. You've entered a whole n...(展开全部)

MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world's most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies in the larger universe of twentieth-century communication history, from hearing research conducted by the telephone industry in the 1910s, through the mid-...(展开全部)

Classic of erotic literature (1894), celebrating lesbian love, translation of original edition, complete with 161 sensuous illustrations by Willi Pogany.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fifth novel.When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. ...(展开全部)

Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of...(展开全部)

Thalassa was a paradise above the earth. Its beauty and vast resources seduce its inhabitants into a feeling of perfection. But then the Magellan arrives, carrying with it one million refugees from the last mad days of earth. Paradise looks indeed lost....

阿瑟•克拉克 (Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008) 英国科幻作家，被誉为科幻小说之王，与阿西莫夫、海因莱因一起并称为“20世纪科幻三巨头”。他一生创作了100多部作品，被翻译成40多种语言，作品总销量突破1亿册，并多次获得雨果奖、星云奖、轨迹奖等科 幻至高奖项。1986年，克拉克获得美国科幻与奇幻作家协会终身成就奖——大师奖。 克拉克曾在英国皇家空军服役，担任雷达技师，退役后获得了数学和物理学的学士学位。同时，他也被称为伟大的太空预言家，他针对太空技术作出的许多预测都成为了现实，他曾经预言过人体冷大脑记忆备份、地球通讯卫星、地震预防预测等尖端科技，地球静止轨道正是因为他而被命名为“克拉克轨道”。 克拉克的绝大多数作品属于“硬科幻”，以翔实精准的科技描述著称，并运用哲学的思考方式，探究人类在宇宙中的位置，以及人类与人类技术所能达到...(展开全部)

阿瑟•克拉克 (Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008) 英国科幻作家，被誉为科幻小说之王，与阿西莫夫、海因莱因一起并称为“20世纪科幻三巨头”。他一生创作了100多部作品，被翻译成40多种语言，作品总销量突破1亿册，并多次获得雨果奖、星云奖、轨迹奖等科 幻至高奖项。1986年，克拉克获得美国科幻与奇幻作家协会终身成就奖——大师奖。 克拉克曾在英国皇家空军服役，担任雷达技师，退役后获得了数学和物理学的学士学位。同时，他也被称为伟大的太空预言家，他针对太空技术作出的许多预测都成为了现实，他曾经预言过人体冷大脑记忆备份、地球通讯卫星、地震预防预测等尖端科技，地球静止轨道正是因为他而被命名为“克拉克轨道”。 克拉克的绝大多数作品属于“硬科幻”，以翔实精准的科技描述著称，并运用哲学的思考方式，探究人类在宇宙中的位置，以及人类与人类技术所能达到...(展开全部)

格雷尔·马库斯 Greil Marcus，美国当代著名乐评人、文化研究者、作家。著有《聆听大门》、《神秘列车》、《老美国志异》、《唇迹》等畅销不衰的音乐文化书籍，并为美国诸多报刊杂志撰写专栏。近年来，他先后在普林斯顿大学、明尼苏达大学和纽约大学等多所院校任教。 译者 金晓宇 ，1972年生于天津，自由译者，从事英语、日语翻译十余年。译作包括《写作人生》《嘻哈这门生意》《剧院里最好的座位》《船热》《诱惑者》等。现居杭州。

S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1854-1918) was a prominent scholar and leader of the occult movement in Britian at the turn of the century. A life-long fascination with mysticism and Celtic symbolism led Mathers to hold high office in the Rosicrucian Society of England, and eventually to become a founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He is also well known for having been a...(展开全部)