Since man first wielded a stick in anger, war and conflict have been prime movers in the progress of science and technology. In our earliest days the impetus may have been as simple as protecting territory or a food supply; more recently science has benefited from massive injections of cash when national security is at stake. But as Michael White demonstrates in this superbly w...(展开全部)

迈克尔·怀特(Michael White)是一颗耀眼的新星，一位世界级畅销书作家。1991年前，他在英国剑桥大学主讲科技发展，尔后成为专业作家。至今他已出版25部作品，包括著名科学家的传记、科学技术史、科技侦探小说等，许多作品已被译成数十种文字，主要有《霍金传》、《达·芬奇传》、《达尔文传》、《托尔金传》、《牛顿传》、《阿西莫夫传》、《子夜奇案》等。 导言 科技是双刃剑

Fresh Fruits is the second collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier street fanzine, comprising the sequel to the hugely successful compilation Fruits, published in 2001. Fruits magazine swept Japan off its feet in 1997. Initially a project to document the relentless explosion in street fashion in the suburbs of Tokyo, the magazine has grown to cult stat...(展开全部)

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians bu...(展开全部)

Review A "Washington Post" best-seller " Absorb this book, and you can throw out all those contemporary books about management leadership." — "Newsweek" " A breast-pocket favorite of many commanders and U.S. Marines." — "Christian Science Monitor" " "The Art of War" soon could join Machiavelli's "The Prince" as required reading in the executive suite." — "USA Today"

These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single North American family drawn into the very center of the wars maelstrom. These two multimillion-copy bestsellers capture all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War.

"His territory is [where] passion and eloquence collide and fuse.'—The New York Times "Richard Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency."—Huffington Post Richard Siken's debut, Crush, won the Yale Younger Poets' Prize, sold over 20,000 copies, and earned him a devoted fan-base. In this much-anticipated second book, Richard...(展开全部)

The greatest military textbook of the nineteenth century, this famous analysis of the art of Napoleonic warfare had a profound influence upon the military education of American officers in the decades prior to the Civil War.

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Hebrew University's van Creveld remains unsurpassed as a scholar of war. In this provocative volume, he challenges perhaps the subject's single greatest shibboleth—at least in Western culture. Since the Enlightenment, war has been described as a means to an end, serving essentially rational interests. Nothing, van Creveld...(展开全部)