"This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management". Both gruesome and very funny, The Futurological Congress is the story of an ill-fated gathering of scientists who meet in a vast luxury hotel in the smog-bound, chronically over-populated Costa Rica of the future. Caught up in a revolution, the congress ends in a shambles as the authorities try to quell discontent by pourin...(展开全部)

"This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management". Both gruesome and very funny, The Futurological Congress is the story of an ill-fated gathering of scientists who meet in a vast luxury hotel in the smog-bound, chronically over-populated Costa Rica of the future. Caught up in a revolution, the congress ends in a shambles as the authorities try to quell discontent by pourin...(展开全部)

✍斯坦尼斯瓦夫•莱姆（1921—2006），波兰著名作家、哲学家。当过汽车技工，终获医学博士学位，创立波兰宇航协会。代表作有《索拉里斯星》《未来学大会》《惨败》等。作品多聚焦哲学主题，探讨科技对人类的影响、智慧的本质、外星交流，以及人类认知的局限等。1996年被授予波兰国 家奖章“白鹰勋章”，波兰第一颗人造卫星以他的名字命名。 ✍莱姆是20世纪欧洲最多才多艺的作家之一，安东尼•伯吉斯称赞他是“当今活跃的作家中最智慧、最博学、最幽默的一位”，库尔特•冯内古特赞扬他“无论是语言的驾驭、想象力还是塑造悲剧角色的手法，都非常优秀，无人能出其右”。被译成52种语言，全球畅销4000余万册。

Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure. Translated by Michael Kandel.

Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure. Translated by Michael Kandel.

The first full-length “Frank” graphic novel! Readers of the “Frank” stories know that The Unifactor is in control of everything that happens to the characters that abide there, and that however extreme the experiences they undergo may be, in the end nothing really changes. That goes treble for Frank himself, who is kept in a state of total ineducability by the unseen forc...(展开全部)

This fourteenth edition accounts for the 2012 elections and includes discussion of the agenda of the new Congress, White House-Capitol Hill relations, party and committee leadership changes, judicial appointments, and partisan polarization, as well as covering changes to budgeting, campaign finance, lobbyists in legislative policymaking, public attitudes about Congress, reappor...(展开全部)

Preface<br >This book， like the first edition， is the product of our personal fascination and<br >professional experience with a most complex and perplexing body， the United<br >States Congress. As academic political scientists， we have written technical<br >studies about Congress and its lawmakers; taught undergraduate and<br >graduate courses; conducted workshops for ...(展开全部)

(美)罗杰·H.戴维森（Roger H. Davidson），美国马里兰大学政府与政治系荣休教授。其代表作如：1995年出版的与詹姆斯•A.瑟伯（James A. Thurber）合著的《再造国会：1990年代的改变与稳定》等。 (美)沃尔特·J.奥勒斯泽克（Walter J. Oleszek），美国国会研究局立法程序高级专家。代表作如：2014年第九版的《国会程序与政策过程》等。 (美)弗朗西斯·E.李（Frances E.Lee），美国马里兰大学政府与政治系教授。 曾在2009年出版的专著《超越意识形态：美国国会参议院中的政治、原则以及党争》获得了2010年的理查德•F•芬诺二世最佳立法政治专著奖。 (美)埃里克·希克勒（Eric Schickler），美国加州大学伯克利分校政治科学杰弗里和阿什利·麦克德莫特讲席教授。 在2001年出版的专著《脱...(展开全部)

Many scholars believe that the framers of the Constitution intended Congress to be the preeminent branch of government. Indeed, no other legislature in the world approaches its power. Yet most Americans have only a murky idea of how it works. In The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the...(展开全部)