"How sure can you be that you,re not dreaming right now?" "Up until now, completely sure," I responded. "Dreams aren,t really anything like reality. Dreams are, well, they,re more dreamy. You can just tell. Things happen in dreams that don,t happen in reality. Usually, anyway." The hero of The Dream Weaver, young Ian Pinkle, encounters a world full of the unknown. With the hel...(展开全部)

杰克•鲍温1995年在斯坦福大学取得人类生物学荣誉学士学位，后来在加利福尼亚州立大学长滩分校以优异的成绩取得哲学硕士学位。鲍温曾在迪安萨学院从事了六年的哲学和伦理学教学工作，此后一直在阿瑟顿一所著名的私立高中教授哲学。

小约翰•A.托马斯（John A.Thomas Jr.）拥有电学和工程控制方面的技术背景。他研究过不同的课题，例如UFO和失传或遗忘的古代技术。1990年，他首次和本书的主人公约翰•瑟尔（John Searl）教授接触，并因此而改变了人生轨迹。他出版和发行了瑟尔的《幻方法则》（The Law of the Squares）书系，并与瑟尔共同成立了国际科学管理联合有限公司（DISC）；此外，他也负责管理瑟尔国际空间研究协会（NSRC）。他还参与了美国BKL制片公司出品的纪录片《约翰•瑟尔的故事》（The Story of John Searl）的拍摄。现在，托马斯与瑟尔及其公司正致力于发展出一种新的、更完备的“幻方技术”，重启他们可能改变世界面貌的伟大梦想。 欲知更多详情，请关注下列英文官方网站：www.searlsolution.com、www.se...(展开全部)

Praise for William Dunhams Journey Through Genius The Great Theorems of Mathematics "Dunham deftly guides the reader through the verbal and logical intricacies of major mathematical questions and proofs, conveying a splendid sense of how the greatest mathematicians from ancient to modern times presented their arguments." —Ivars Peterson Author, The Mathematical Tourist Mathemat...(展开全部)

Praise for William Dunhams Journey Through Genius The Great Theorems of Mathematics "Dunham deftly guides the reader through the verbal and logical intricacies of major mathematical questions and proofs, conveying a splendid sense of how the greatest mathematicians from ancient to modern times presented their arguments." —Ivars Peterson Author, The Mathematical Tourist Mathemat...(展开全部)

Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, Arabia is Levison Wood's account of his most complex expedition yet: circumnavigating the Arabian Peninsula. Travelling through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on earth, he seeks to challenge our perceptions of an often misunderstood part of the world, seeing how ...(展开全部)

本•A. 敏特尔（Ben A. Minteer），亚利桑那州立大学生命科学院教授，主要研究领域为环境伦理与保护，论文刊登于《科学》《自然》《美国国家科学院院刊》等刊物。《景观革新》是他研究美国环境思想的代表作。

This book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn argues that the language of landscape exists with its own grammar and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid p...(展开全部)

This book stresses a theoretical approach to landscape aesthetics, including habitat theory and prospect-refuge theory, based on an analysis of research literature and experience in a wide area of art and science. This edition covers recent developments in the field.