Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for those of us not lucky enough to live in a science-fictional universe, are these ideas merely flights of fancy - or could it reall...(展开全部)

A beautiful visual history book of fantasy art from Romanticism and steampunk to modern illustrations from novels. Art has always been one of the most vivid ways to express people’s imagination. Fantasy art illustrates the full range of human fears and dreams, from mythology, the Bible, and the artist’s own original and exciting stories. This book describes the history of fanta...(展开全部)

How can Earth's Mightiest Heroes possibly halt the absolute end of everything? After two years of carefully crafting his cataclysmic saga, writer Jonathan Hickman jumps ahead eight months to the grand fi nale - the day of the Final Incursion! After the revelation of the Illuminati's desperate, world-destroying actions, the Avengers are fragmented. While one group seeks out the ...(展开全部)

Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse. But instead of using philosophy to define or to explain the horror genre, Thac...(展开全部)

"Disorientation" is the first publication in English of the second volume of "Technics and Time," in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to technics, such as Heidegger and Simondon.The author's broad intent is to respond to Western philosophy's historical exclusion of...(展开全部)

In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.

After turning a healthy profit following his adventures in Pasloe, Kraft Lawrence is eager to reinvest his capital with an eye to the future. When the deal turns sour, though, Lawrence finds himself deeply in debt and facing a very bleak future indeed. Luckily, Holo is at his side with a risky (and less than legal) scheme that may just save the merchant's neck and a promise tha...(展开全部)

Assuming no previous knowledge of history, "Personalities and Problems" is a unique collection of original essays about real people whose lives or careers demonstrate solutions to problems of their times. Each chapter focuses on a problem or issue, and illustrates it by discussing the lives of two historical figures (actual or near contemporaries of each other) whose careers il...(展开全部)

Assuming no previous knowledge of history, "Personalities and Problems" is a unique collection of original essays about real people whose lives or careers demonstrate solutions to problems of their times. Each chapter focuses on a problem or issue, and illustrates it by discussing the lives of two historical figures (actual or near contemporaries of each other) whose careers il...(展开全部)

After turning a healthy profit following his adventures in Pasloe, Kraft Lawrence is eager to reinvest his capital with an eye to the future. When the deal turns sour, though, Lawrence finds himself deeply in debt and facing a very bleak future indeed. Luckily, Holo is at his side with a risky (and less than legal) scheme that may just save the merchant's neck and a promise tha...(展开全部)