Long before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart, millennia ago, the strange race of giants had vanished. No one could discover their fate, nor where they had gone, nor why. There was only a wrecked ship abandoned on a frozen satellite of Jupiter. And now Earth's code and scientists were there, determined to ferret out the secret of the lost race. And suddenly, spinning out of...(展开全部)

Long before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart, millennia ago, the strange race of giants had vanished. No one could discover their fate, nor where they had gone, nor why. There was only a wrecked ship abandoned on a frozen satellite of Jupiter. And now Earth's code and scientists were there, determined to ferret out the secret of the lost race. And suddenly, spinning out of...(展开全部)

In a career that spanned more than fifty years, photographer Edouard Boubat (1923-1999) captured the magic of fleeting moments with tenderness and warmth. A contemporary of Robert Doisneau and one of the most influential French photographers of the 20th century, Boubat made elegant, poetic pictures, beginning with images of everyday life in his native city of Paris and moving o...(展开全部)

The combination of two of the twentieth century's most influential and revolutionary scientific theories, information theory and quantum mechanics, gave rise to a radically new view of computing and information. Quantum information processing explores the implications of using quantum mechanics instead of classical mechanics to model information and its processing. Quantum comp...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·A. 巴斯贝恩（Nicholas A. Basbanes），西方公认的顶级书话权威、殿堂级大师，著有多本书话畅销佳作。1943年生于美国马萨诸塞州的洛厄尔，曾任海军军官、记者和文学编辑。1995年《文雅的疯狂》出版，此书甫一问世，便入围美国国家图书奖最终名单，更被评为《纽约时报》年度好书。 其他主要作品有《为了书籍的人：坚忍与刚毅之一》《永恒的图书馆：坚忍与刚毅之二》、《疯雅书中事》、《读者有其书》等。

The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully documented, it combines the perspective of historical research with the...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·A. 巴斯贝恩（Nicholas A. Basbanes），西方公认的顶级书话权威、殿堂级大师，著有多本书话畅销佳作。1943年生于美国马萨诸塞州的洛厄尔，曾任海军军官、记者和文学编辑。1995年《文雅的疯狂》出版，此书甫一问世，便入围美国国家图书奖最终名单，更被评为《纽约时报》年度好书。 其他主要作品有《为了书籍的人：坚忍与刚毅之一》《永恒的图书馆：坚忍与刚毅之二》、《疯雅书中事》、《读者有其书》等。

The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully documented, it combines the perspective of historical research with the...(展开全部)