By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the wea...(展开全部)

By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the wea...(展开全部)

The dazzling new masterwork from the prophet of silicon valley. Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in whi...(展开全部)

The dazzling new masterwork from the prophet of silicon valley. Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in whi...(展开全部)

罗伯特·索耶是加拿大最有影响力的科幻作家。1960年出生于渥太华。曾获雨果奖、星云奖、曙光奖等诸多奖项。本书是其第6部小说，获得1995年星云奖。 至今已出版17部长篇科幻小说，屡获雨果奖、星云奖等多种科幻奖项，被誉为加拿大科幻教长。索耶的科幻小说涉及多种主题，从电脑狂魔、恐龙复活、时间旅行，到平行时空、太空侦探，想像奇伟，异彩纷呈。索耶的代表作除本书外，还包括《计算中的上帝》、《终极实验》、《星丛》、《原始人类》和《混血》等。

After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a major statement in the form of three works which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building, and planning, which will, we hope, replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The T...(展开全部)

琳内·麦克塔格特（Lynne McTaggart），国际知名作家，美国记者，专门从事现象调查及报道，并创建了一个念力全球网（www.theintentionexperiment.com）。其他著作还包括《疗愈场》、《念力的秘密》等。她在20世纪80年代中期旅居英格兰，创办了一份时事通讯《医师对你隐瞒的事情》，如今每期发行几十万份，1999年这份时事通讯被汇总出版，名为《医师对你隐瞒的事情》。

罗伯特·索耶是加拿大最有影响力的科幻作家。1960年出生于渥太华。曾获雨果奖、星云奖、曙光奖等诸多奖项。本书是其第6部小说，获得1995年星云奖。 至今已出版17部长篇科幻小说，屡获雨果奖、星云奖等多种科幻奖项，被誉为加拿大科幻教长。索耶的科幻小说涉及多种主题，从电脑狂魔、恐龙复活、时间旅行，到平行时空、太空侦探，想像奇伟，异彩纷呈。索耶的代表作除本书外，还包括《计算中的上帝》、《终极实验》、《星丛》、《原始人类》和《混血》等。

The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay, a startlingly original interpretation of Proust. By way of Neo-platonism, Buddhism, and the work of Melanie Klein, Sedgwick establishes the sense of refreshmen...(展开全部)