The sea has a story to tell you, one you've never heard before... R to L (Japanese Style). Umi and Sora are not alone in their strange connection to the sea. Forty years ago, Jim met another young boy with the same powers. As penance for letting the boy die, Jim has been searching the world for other children with those same ties to the ocean. Anglade, a wunderkind who was once...(展开全部)

The Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of the possible reality of utopia. Even as the world has rejected the doctrine on which Bloch sought to base his utopia, his work still challenges us to think more insightfully about our own visions of a better world.<br /> <br /> The Pr...(展开全部)

米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault，1926—1984），法国哲学家。他以其无比渊博的学识、才华横溢的文笔、惊世骇俗的思想，深刻影响了后现代主义、权力分析与社会理论、新文化史、刑罚史、身体史、性史、女性主义与酷儿理论，以及文学与艺术批评等各种时代思潮。其主要作品有：《古典时代疯狂史》《词与物》《规训与惩罚》《性经验史》（四卷）“法兰西学院演讲系列”等。

This book offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex as well as on exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women. The book abounds in insights into the differences - and...(展开全部)

塔尔科特·帕森斯(Talcott Parsons，1902—1979）　美国社会学家。结构功能主义的代表人物。1902年12月13日生于美国科罗拉多州的斯普林斯 ，1979年5月8日卒于德国。1920年入美国阿默斯特学院学习，1924年获文学士学位。后赴欧洲，先在伦敦经济学院学习，复又转到海德堡大学研究经济学和社会学，1927年获博士学位。回国后一直在哈佛大学从事教学与理论研究工作。先任哈佛大学经济系讲师 ，从1931年开始在社会学系讲授社会学，1944年成为社会学教授，1946年出任社会关系系主任，1973年退休 。曾于1949年担任美国社会学会主席。

Hal Clement, one of the all-time greats of science fiction, was defining hard science fiction before such distinctions were even being thought of. He once described his approach to writing: "[T]he rules must be quite simple. They are; for the reader of a science-fiction story, they consist of finding as many as possible of the author's statements or implications which conflict ...(展开全部)

The Best of Greg Egan contains twenty stories and novellas arranged in chronological order, and each of them is a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem. The book opens with “Learning to be Me,” about a society in which the organic human brain can be replaced by a miraculous piece of technology called “the jewel,” a “mock brain” that confers, among other things, a k...(展开全部)

The Best of Greg Egan contains twenty stories and novellas arranged in chronological order, and each of them is a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem. The book opens with “Learning to be Me,” about a society in which the organic human brain can be replaced by a miraculous piece of technology called “the jewel,” a “mock brain” that confers, among other things, a k...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Two boys. Two balloons. Each boy thinks his balloon is best. What do you think?

This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES.With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, ...(展开全部)