罗伯特·洛根(Robert K.Logan，1939—)，加拿大物理学家、传播学家，从事跨学科研究，是麦克卢汉思想圈子的核心成员、媒介环境学派第二代代表人物。著有《字母表效应．拼音文字与西方文明》、《第六语言：学会在互联网时代生存》、《心灵的延伸：语言、心灵和文化的滥觞》、《理解新媒介：延伸麦克卢汉》等。《第六语言》2000年获媒介环境学会苏珊·朗格奖。

罗伯特·洛根(Robert K.Logan，1939—)，加拿大物理学家、传播学家，从事跨学科研究，是麦克卢汉思想圈子的核心成员、媒介环境学派第二代代表人物。著有《字母表效应．拼音文字与西方文明》、《第六语言：学会在互联网时代生存》、《心灵的延伸：语言、心灵和文化的滥觞》、《理解新媒介：延伸麦克卢汉》等。《第六语言》2000年获媒介环境学会苏珊·朗格奖。

This book is a comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, widely used for over a century to transcribe the sounds of languages. The Handbook is in three parts: Part I contains an introduction to phonetic description and exemplification of the use of phonetic symbols; Part II consists of twenty-nine "Illustrations" of the application of the International Phoneti...(展开全部)

This book is a comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, widely used for over a century to transcribe the sounds of languages. The Handbook is in three parts: Part I contains an introduction to phonetic description and exemplification of the use of phonetic symbols; Part II consists of twenty-nine "Illustrations" of the application of the International Phoneti...(展开全部)

A graphical representation of the alphabet gives a new view of the letters, from the A that crumbles as an avalanche approaches to the D that glows with the light of the devil.

Digital technologies have changed architecture--the way it is taught, practiced, managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a "paradigm shift" for architecture, which paradigm is shifting? In The Alphabet and the Algorithm, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to th...(展开全部)

"Very few books dig so deeply into the feelings and experiences that really drive historians. Still less do they explore how events in distant ages, in seemingly distant cultures, can touch the modern reader. The Terror of History does this. Ruiz's voice is very much that of a teacher and scholar committed to the exploration of the human condition. This is a rich book." -- ...(展开全部)

"Very few books dig so deeply into the feelings and experiences that really drive historians. Still less do they explore how events in distant ages, in seemingly distant cultures, can touch the modern reader. The Terror of History does this. Ruiz's voice is very much that of a teacher and scholar committed to the exploration of the human condition. This is a rich book." -- ...(展开全部)

A thought-provoking history of papyrus paper―from its origins in Egypt to its spread throughout the world―revealing how it helped usher in a new era of human history. For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it w...(展开全部)

A thought-provoking history of papyrus paper―from its origins in Egypt to its spread throughout the world―revealing how it helped usher in a new era of human history. For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it w...(展开全部)