In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astoundin...(展开全部)

Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-ce...(展开全部)

An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery of Timeline, a mystery that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Age...(展开全部)

What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. The authors, both accomplished writers and historians, sketch the shifting field of graphic representations of history from the beginning of the print age through the present. They shed light on western views of history a...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·罗森伯格，俄勒冈大学历史系教授，专注于研究数据的历史，主持美国国家人文科学基金会资助的历史图形学互联网项目“时间在线”，撰述题材兼涉历史、知识论、语言与视觉文化，与苏珊·哈丁合著《未来的历史》。 安东尼·格拉夫顿，普林斯顿大学亨利·普特南讲席教授，美国哲学学会会员， 英国科学院院士，曾担任美国历史学会主席，已出版《文本的捍卫者》《脚注趣史》《拿出你的存货：人文史料钩沉》等十余部著作。 杨凌峰，翻译学硕士，任职于广州某高校，译有《时间图谱》《审丑》《艺术通史》《501位艺术大师》《如何让艺术懂你》《丑闻艺术博物馆》《世界当代艺术》《有生之年一定要看的101部邪典电影》《阿尔伯特·卡恩的理想国》《埃及四千年》《埃及纪行》《出轨》《栗树街 》等。译事探讨：[email protected]