Oberon, having resumed the throne, organizes an assault on the Courts of Chaos. Oberon plans to repair the Primal Pattern at the cost of his life, and offers the throne to Corwin with Dara as his Queen. Corwin refuses and is tasked to bring the Jewel of Judgment across the shadows to the battle that will ensue after the pattern is redrawn. He sets off along the black road and i...(展开全部)

Amber, the one real world of which all others – including our own Earth – are but Shadows...<br /><br />For untold millennia, the cosmic Pattern sustained order in Amber and all the known worlds. But now the forces of Chaos have succeeded in disrupting the Pattern, unleashing destructive forces beyond measure... forces meant to reshape the universe.<br /><br />To save Amber, Co...(展开全部)

Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of chaos and the consequences of its principal findings -- that actual, precise rules may govern such apparently random behavior -- has been a major part of the work of Edwar...(展开全部)

This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.

In this new study, Andrew Abbott presents a fresh and daring analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. "Chaos of Disciplines" reconsiders how knowledge actually changes and advances. Challenging the accepted belief that social sciences are in a perpetual state of progress, Abbott contends that disciplines instead cycle around an inevitable pattern of cor...(展开全部)

安德鲁·阿伯特(Andrew Abbott，1948—)，当代最富声望的社会学家之一，芝加哥大学社会学杰出讲席教授，美国艺术与科学院院士。研究领域涵盖行业和职业研究、历史社会学、社会理论与社会科学方法论。曾任芝加哥大学社会科学部部长和社会学系主任、《美国社会学刊》和《工作与职业》主编，并曾任社会科学历史学会会长。

獨一無二，懸疑、驚悚、神祕、歷史與科幻小說的完美結合作品！ 數學天才傑德生於瓜地馬拉西南的小城市，是馬雅人後裔，幼時父母相繼死亡，傳說為軍隊刑求致死，但未獲證實，後來逃往美國為一對富裕的夫婦收養 。傑德國中時，因校內一場演講而結識了塔羅教授，他是一位遊戲理論學家，致力於中美洲古老遊戲的研究。而傑德幼時曾跟母親學習獻祭遊戲，對馬雅占卜極為熟悉，能準確預測農作物收成，以此在網路與人交易獲利，因此兩人常一起討論，久而久之塔羅也成為傑德的良師益友。 經由塔羅的介紹，傑德認識了他的老闆瑪琳娜，她是瓦倫娛樂公司互動部門的經理，手中握有一份新發現的馬雅手抄本，是有關於二○一二年世界末日預言的文件，她希望傑德對於這份文獻能提供些意見，而這份手抄本中描述的占卜遊戲與傑德家族流傳下來的極其相似。恰巧此時馬琳娜和塔羅也正在尋找一位自願者回到西元六六四年，實際和馬雅人玩遊戲...(展开全部)

Here a leading scholar in constitutional law, Mark Tushnet, challenges hallowed American traditions of judicial review and judicial supremacy, which allow U.S. judges to invalidate "unconstitutional" governmental actions. Many people, particularly liberals, have "warm and fuzzy" feelings about judicial review. They are nervous about what might happen to unprotected constitution...(展开全部)

Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, the 34-year-old Henri Poincare submitted a paper that was to change the course of science, but not before it underwent significant changes itself. "The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics" won a prize sponsored by King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway and the journal Acta...(展开全部)

Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a "year" was, or asked ourselves when "now" happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Neverthe...(展开全部)