Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as...(展开全部)

Jameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual interests also felt the gravitational pull of his vocation as...(展开全部)

Unearthed from the depths of the Batcave by Mathew K. Manning, The Batman Files begins with Wayne's childhood drawings and continues along a time line of significant events in Batman's life. Complete and authentic in every way possible, all of Batman's friends and foes--from Poison Ivy, Catwoman, the Riddler, and Penguin, to the Joker, Batgirl, Mr. Freeze, and of course, Robin-...(展开全部)

BLACKSAD is the hit international series-an anthropomorphic saga of a black cat private detective in film noir adventures. Here is a stunning behind the scenes look at how this exciting series was created. It includes never before seen production sketches, concept art, and commentary about the characters, scenes, and story. It's a rare look at how a graphic novel story is creat...(展开全部)

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. It is a wonder Pluto has any fans, yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, people rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in the American cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos and Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a quest to discover why. Only Tyson can tell this s...(展开全部)

作者：尼尔•德格拉斯•泰森 天体物理学家，美国自然博物馆海登天文馆馆长，畅销科普书作者。 纪录片《宇宙》主持人，《生活大爆炸》客串演员，《时代》周刊影响力人物。 2001年国际天文学联合会将13123号小行星以他的名字命名 2004年获美国国家航空航天局“杰出公共服务奖章” 2007年入选《时代》周刊“全球百位最具影响力人物” 2008年入选《发现》杂志“科学界十大最具影响力人物” 2017年获“斯蒂芬•霍金科学传播奖” 译者：郑永春 行星科学家，中国科学院国家天文台研究员，中国科普作家协会副理事长，青年科学家社会责任联盟理事长，科普中国形象大使，教科版小学《科学》教材编写组成员。 中国首位“卡尔•萨根奖”得主 全国十大科学传播人物 中国科学院青年创新促进会首届优秀会员 “中国科学院院长奖”得主 译者：刘晗 北京外国语大学博士生。本科毕业于北京师范大...(展开全部)

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. It is a wonder Pluto has any fans, yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, people rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. Pluto is entrenched in the American cultural, patriotic view of the cosmos and Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a quest to discover why. Only Tyson can tell this s...(展开全部)

Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and...(展开全部)

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre...(展开全部)

Book Description Master of the Impossible! Joseph Commings (1914-1992) created one of the greatest investigators of locked rooms, impossible disappearances and other "miracle crimes" – the gargantuan, harrumphing Senator Brooks U. Banner. During his long career (Banner first appeared in the pulps in 1947), he investigated such crimes as murder at a séance where everyone is h...(展开全部)