Instructors: Please click here to request a review copy of this title for adoption consideration.Desk copies are available by calling 1-800-818-7243.' John Tomlinson's new book is an invitation to an adventure. It contains a precious key to unlock the doors into the unmapped and unexplored cultural and ethical condition of 'immediacy'. Without this key concept from now on it wi...(展开全部)

Tenth anniversary edition • With a new Introduction by the author In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning autistic adult, is a member of the lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the rewards of medical science. He lives a low-key, indep...(展开全部)

Tenth anniversary edition • With a new Introduction by the author In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning autistic adult, is a member of the lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the rewards of medical science. He lives a low-key, indep...(展开全部)

In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various programs, they will be taught to get along in the world despite their differences. They will be made ac...(展开全部)

The Speed of Dark is a near-future science fiction novel by American author Elizabeth Moon, first published as a paperback in 2002. The story is told from the first person viewpoint of an autistic computer programmer. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2003, and was also an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist. Plot summary Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. Lou ...(展开全部)

The Speed of Dark is a near-future science fiction novel by American author Elizabeth Moon, first published as a paperback in 2002. The story is told from the first person viewpoint of an autistic computer programmer. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2003, and was also an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist. Plot summary Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. Lou ...(展开全部)

In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various programs, they will be taught to get along in the world despite their differences. They will be made ac...(展开全部)

阿 瑟·柯 南·道 尔（Arthur Conan Doyle，1859 年 5 月 22 日—1930 年 7 月 7 日），英国杰出侦探小说家、剧作家，被誉为“英国侦探小说之父”，作品畅销全球。 他一生共创作了 56 部短篇侦探小说及 4 部中篇侦探小说，成功地塑造了侦探人物——夏洛克•福尔摩斯。代表作有《福尔摩斯探案全集》，包括“冒险史”系列、“回忆录”系列、“归来记”系列、“新探案”系列，以及《血字的研究》《恐怖谷》《巴斯克维尔猎犬》《四签名》等，他的作品对后来的侦探小说有很大的影响。除此之外，他还曾写过《失落的世界》等多部其他类型的小说，涉及科幻、悬疑、历史、爱情、戏剧、 诗歌等。

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories but also a devout spiritualist, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs apparently showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. To demonstrate his unshakeable belief in the spirit world, he published "The Coming of the Fairies...(展开全部)

This volume is the upshot of Conan Doyle's high-profile championing of the authenticity of the Cottingley photographs, purporting to be of fairies; it touches on the author's belief in Spiritualism and contains much reference to the related but distinct creed of Theosophism.