How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run—if he could even walk without a stick – and Superior Glokta needs answers before the Gurkish army comes knocking at the gates. Northmen have spilled over the border of Ang...(展开全部)

'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' - David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z. Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Uber's cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of computer code. Coders ...(展开全部)

"Middle management" is a term associated with relentless downsizing, corporate drudgery, and career dead-ends. Bashed by management gurus, dismissed by social scientists, and painted as victims by the media, middle managers seem permanently relegated to the sidelines of corporate power. But is this popular picture accurate? Are middle managers really no longer valued by today...(展开全部)

his book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everyt...(展开全部)

摄影师张晓说：这是个并不真实的世界，我喜欢他们。他们在某个时刻的状态已经超越了现实的自己，像是在梦游。我拍照片时很少和他们对话，只是眼神的交流，更多的时候是迅速按下快门，快门声伴随着刺眼的闪光灯直射过去，他们这才如梦初醒地诧异地看着我，等他们回过神来，我已经匆匆离开。因为他们的眼神很多是我所不敢面对的。我像是在逃避，正如逃避镜子中的我自己。

Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. In the heat-ravaged so...(展开全部)

Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. In the heat-ravaged so...(展开全部)

There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and inThe Tree,Colin Tudge travels around...(展开全部)

There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in The Tree, Colin Tudge travels a...(展开全部)

杰拉尔德·格拉夫（Gerald Graff） 曾任美国现代语言协会主席，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校英语教授与教育学教授，常年从事本科和研究生的写作教学工作。出版过多部对教师影响巨大的书籍，包括《从制度视角看文学史》《超越文化战争：直面冲突，复兴美国教育》《学术迷途：僵化教育对智识生活的桎梏》。 凯茜· 比肯施泰因（Cathy Birkenstein） 伊利诺伊大学讲师，发表过多篇关于写作的论文，曾与格拉夫合著多篇文章发表于《高等教育年鉴》《大学写作与沟通》等期刊。她与格拉夫在多所高中、本科院校和学术会议中举行过百余次有关写作指导的讲座。