How does technology advance? How can we best assimilate innovation? These questions and others are considered by experts on the theories and applications of technological innovations. Considering subjects as diverse as the diffusion of new technologies and their industrial applications, governmental policies, and manifestations of innovation in our institutions, history, and en...(展开全部)

关于作者 贝尔纳•斯蒂格勒，（1952—2020）当代法国著名哲学家，曾任法国蓬皮杜中心创新与研究所（IRI）主任，法国国立视听研究院（INA）、法国声学与音乐协调研究所（IRCAM）主任，蓬皮杜中心文化发展部主任。其主要代表作有《技术与时间》（1994—2001）、《象征的贫困》（2004—2005）、《怀疑和失信》（2004—2006）、《构成欧洲》（2005）、《新政治经济学批判》（2009）等。 关于译者 张新木，江苏高淳人，南京大学二级教授、博士生导师，文科学术委员，政府特殊津贴专家，中国法国文学研究会副会长。曾任南京大学外国语学院副院长、中国驻法国大使馆一等秘书。2006年获法国政府棕榈教育勋章(骑士)， 2008年获江苏省第三届紫金文学奖翻译奖。研究领域为语言学、符号学与法国文学。出版译著《巴黎圣母院》《游荡的影子》《论诱惑》《模糊性的...(展开全部)

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The fourth edition contains seven new sections with chapters on General Relativity, Gravitational Waves and Relativistic Cosmology. The text has been thoroughly revised and additional problems inserted. The Complete course of Theoretical Physics by Landau and Lifshitz, recognized as two of the world's outstanding physicists, is published in full by Butterworth-Heinemann. It com...(展开全部)

These two volumes provide a translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. They are intended to replace the only reasonably comprehensive selection of his works in English, by Haldane and Ross, first published in 1911. All the works included in that edition are translated here, together with a number of additional texts ...(展开全部)

This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES.With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, ...(展开全部)

For more than twenty years， After the Fact has been a popular and best-selling approach to guiding students through American History and the methods used to generate it. In fifteen dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history， this book examines such topics as oral evidence， photographs， ecological data， films and television programs， church and town re...(展开全部)

詹姆士 W. 戴维森（James West Davidson），耶鲁大学博士毕业，专注于写作，是一位多产的历史学家。 马克 H. 利特，耶鲁大学博士毕业，巴德学院历史系教授兼环境研究项目主席。曾在爱尔兰都柏林大学任美国史教授，致力于环境外交领域的研究。

Hal Clement, one of the all-time greats of science fiction, was defining hard science fiction before such distinctions were even being thought of. He once described his approach to writing: "[T]he rules must be quite simple. They are; for the reader of a science-fiction story, they consist of finding as many as possible of the author's statements or implications which conflict ...(展开全部)

The Best of Greg Egan contains twenty stories and novellas arranged in chronological order, and each of them is a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem. The book opens with “Learning to be Me,” about a society in which the organic human brain can be replaced by a miraculous piece of technology called “the jewel,” a “mock brain” that confers, among other things, a k...(展开全部)