We're living in the Age of Persuasion. Leaders and organizations of all kinds public and private, large and small fulfill their missions only by competing in the marketplace of images and messages. To win in that marketplace, they need advertising. This has been true since the advent of mass media, from mass-circulation magazines and radio through the age of television and the ...(展开全部)

First printing of new edition - the middle "A." has returned, and Campbell gets his "Jr" back. ------------------------------------------------- The Man Who Sold the Moon is the title of two collections of Heinlein's short stories. Both collections include "Let There Be Light", "The Roads Must Roll", "The Man Who Sold the Moon" and "Requiem"; the first also includes "Life-Line"...(展开全部)

The Man Who Sold the Moon is the title of two collections of Heinlein's short stories. Both collections include "Let There Be Light", "The Roads Must Roll", "The Man Who Sold the Moon" and "Requiem"; the first also includes "Life-Line" and "Blowups Happen". Although the science fiction film Destination Moon is generally described as being based on Heinlein's novel Rocket Ship G...(展开全部)

罗伯特·海因莱因是美国最具影响力的科幻作家。他以高超的叙述技巧、精巧的科幻构思、极具时代感的激进思想，以及对美国历史和文化的独特的科幻化阐释，赢得了无数读者的喜爱，被誉为“美国现代科幻小说之父”。海因莱因同时也是世界科幻的“三巨头”之一。他的作品被译成数十种语言，在世界范围内广为流行，是最受中国、日本以及俄罗斯读者欢迎的美国科幻作家。 海因莱因一生著作颇丰，多次获得各种科幻大奖，是第一位获得世界科幻协会授予“科幻大师”殊荣的科幻作家。其代表作主要包括：《双星》、《进入盛夏之门》、《星船伞兵》、《异乡异客》、《严厉的月亮》等。

第二屆【島田莊司推理小說獎】決選入圍作品！ 他遺忘了六年歲月， 卻忘不了那抹死前的濃豔笑意…… 我從睡夢中驚醒，頭痛欲裂，完全記不清自己昨天的行蹤，發生在東成大廈的雙屍命案卻漸漸清晰成形：一個狂暴的丈夫殺死情夫和情夫的懷孕妻子。表面上看來這個案件再簡單不過了，但我卻感到一絲不協調感，或許是刑警的直覺吧。 當我掙扎起身去上班，才驚覺今天竟然是2009年3月15號──我明明記得現在是2003年，命案才發生了一個星期啊！ 難道……我失去了六年的記憶？ 正在不知所措時，有位女記者為了這宗轟動一時的「陳年舊案」跑來找我採訪，並決定和我聯手重新展開調查。然而挖掘越深，我就越感到不安，因為我發現在那段遺忘了的過去之中，我跟案件之間有著不可告人的秘密……

第二屆【島田莊司推理小說獎】決選入圍作品！ 他遺忘了六年歲月， 卻忘不了那抹死前的濃豔笑意…… 我從睡夢中驚醒，頭痛欲裂，完全記不清自己昨天的行蹤，發生在東成大廈的雙屍命案卻漸漸清晰成形：一個狂暴的丈夫殺死情夫和情夫的懷孕妻子。表面上看來這個案件再簡單不過了，但我卻感到一絲不協調感，或許是刑警的直覺吧。 當我掙扎起身去上班，才驚覺今天竟然是2009年3月15號──我明明記得現在是2003年，命案才發生了一個星期啊！ 難道……我失去了六年的記憶？ 正在不知所措時，有位女記者為了這宗轟動一時的「陳年舊案」跑來找我採訪，並決定和我聯手重新展開調查。然而挖掘越深，我就越感到不安，因為我發現在那段遺忘了的過去之中，我跟案件之間有著不可告人的秘密……

"Porter's [book] has been long in the making and has been worth waiting for."—Peter Gay, Times Literary Supplement From the author of The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award) comes a "sumptuous and spicy volume" ( Washington Post Book World ) that highlights Britain's long-underestimated and pivotal role in disseminating the ideas and ...(展开全部)

What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans a...(展开全部)

What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans a...(展开全部)

What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans a...(展开全部)