"It is now forty years," Walter Houghton writes, "since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole." Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic "period pieces," critical and biographical works, and extensive studies of their age, but the Victorian mind itself remains blurred for...(展开全部)

"It is now forty years," Walter Houghton writes, "since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole." Recently the tide has turned and the Victorians have been the subject of sympathetic "period pieces," critical and biographical works, and extensive studies of their age, but the Victorian mind itself remains blurred for...(展开全部)

Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started creating the support structures that are now critical to most living forms, providing rigidity and strength. Manifesting in a vast va...(展开全部)

Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started creating the support structures that are now critical to most living forms, providing rigidity and strength. Manifesting in a vast va...(展开全部)

《新编剑桥世界近代史 第十卷：欧洲势力的顶峰：1830—1870年》内容：欧洲各民族在好几十年的时间里发挥了创造性才能，进行不懈的努力，陆续发现并利用了各种巨大的力量，19世纪中叶似乎是欧洲各民族力量的鼎盛时期。诚然，欧洲各国日后所管辖的疆土比这一时期更加辽阔，所拥有的军队更加庞大，所掌握的武器的杀伤力更加可怕，但欧洲各民族日后所享有的这种优势，随着时间的转移，却日益受到其他各大洲人民的挑战；而在1830-1870年这段时期中，这种优势却是不容置疑的。

《新编剑桥世界近代史 第十卷：欧洲势力的顶峰：1830—1870年》内容：欧洲各民族在好几十年的时间里发挥了创造性才能，进行不懈的努力，陆续发现并利用了各种巨大的力量，19世纪中叶似乎是欧洲各民族力量的鼎盛时期。诚然，欧洲各国日后所管辖的疆土比这一时期更加辽阔，所拥有的军队更加庞大，所掌握的武器的杀伤力更加可怕，但欧洲各民族日后所享有的这种优势，随着时间的转移，却日益受到其他各大洲人民的挑战；而在1830-1870年这段时期中，这种优势却是不容置疑的。

In the quarter of a century between 1830 and 1855, the railway locomotive developed from the small sisters of Rocketto the broad gauge monsters of Daniel Gooch, with a boiler pressure nearly three tim

在线阅读本书 Within the Frame is a book about finding and expressing your photographic vision, specifically where people, places, and cultures are concerned. A personal book full of real-world wisdom and incredible images, author David duChemin (of pixelatedimage.com) shows you both the how and the why of finding, chasing, and expressing your vision with a camera to your eye. Visi...(展开全部)

David duChemin是一位国际摄影师，主要进行人道主义主题和世界主题摄影。他因工作环游全球。他曾在严冬的蒙古冒险，也曾去非洲拍摄杀人蜂；曾在埃塞俄比亚染上疟疾。也曾在秘鲁患上伤寒症，还在突尼斯从骆驼上摔下来．在印度被街上的孩子抓去打板球……他的各种冒险经历使他更加热爱这个世界和这个世界的居民。

AJules Verne world of extraordinary visions and contraptions asportrayed by the top 30 artists in the genre Steampunk is a resurgent art, cult, and lowbrow movement celebrating the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blending in modern scientific advances—synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steam-driven robots, analog supercomputers, and ultramodern di...(展开全部)