The Cloud of Unknowing describes the contemplative method centered around eliminating all noise and images from the mind, and in that encounter with nothingness, finding God. Meanwhile, despite the austerity of the content, the style of the author is warm and congenial and eminently readable. Patrick J. Gallacher further makes this text accessible to students and teachers by in...(展开全部)

The experience of the impossible churns up in our epoch whenever a collective dream turns to trauma: politically, sexually, economically, and with a certain ultimacy, ecologically. Out of an ancient theological lineage, the figure of the cloud comes to convey possibility in the face of the impossible. An old mystical nonknowing of God now hosts a current knowledge of uncertaint...(展开全部)

We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and cultur...(展开全部)

One small boy has a special gift—he can weave cloth from the clouds: gold in the early morning with the rising sun, white in the afternoon, and crimson in the evening. He spins just enough cloth for a warm scarf. But when the king sees the boy's magnificent cloth, he demands cloaks and gowns galore. "It would not be wise," the boy protests. "Your majesty does not need them!" Bu...(展开全部)

One small boy has a special gift—he can weave cloth from the clouds: gold in the early morning with the rising sun, white in the afternoon, and crimson in the evening. He spins just enough cloth for a warm scarf. But when the king sees the boy's magnificent cloth, he demands cloaks and gowns galore. "It would not be wise," the boy protests. "Your majesty does not need them!" Bu...(展开全部)

This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: t...(展开全部)

“有一天，我们走出门，目标已经不是家门口的菜市场或者巷口那间小学，而是天南地北，纵横四海。” 土耳其、泰国、缅甸、印度，玻璃洋葱记录她的旅行。也许要走过几千里不熟悉的土地，才能回到现实身边，继续好好生活。但在结束的那天到来之前，她和她的照相机一步步地前进，一遍遍地回忆，一次次地相遇。 《云深处》不仅仅是简单的旅行游记，更像是一场心灵的回溯之旅，或者逃亡。这个世界越来越浮躁而快节奏，人与人之间总是恰到好处地固守着亲密和疏离的分寸，在陀螺般转动的生活中我们多久没有好好停下来欣赏一场哪怕只是落日的美丽。于是背起行囊，那些旅行中偶遇的人，静静驻足的风景，让人找到平静和温暖。这就是玻璃洋葱用她的眼睛和她的笔，带给读者不同的感观体验和心灵感悟。

If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services. While analysts hotly debate the advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are left to determine whether and how to pu...(展开全部)