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Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that...(展开全部)

唐·伊德（Don ihde，1934－），波士顿大学哲学博士（1964），纽约州立大学石溪分校哲学系杰出教授（distinguished professor），当代著名技术哲学家和现象学家。 Don Ihde是纽约州立大学石溪分校哲学系教授，一位著述颇丰的当代美国当代哲学家，他的研究跨越了技术哲学和现象学。主要代表作有：Philosophy of Technology - An Introduction；Instrumental Realism - Interface Between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology；Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth; Bodies in Technology等。Ihde还主编了“印...(展开全部)

In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the commu...(展开全部)

In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the commu...(展开全部)

Having drawn a startlingly prescient portrait of the Bosnian catastrophe in his bestseller, Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan now travels more widely and ambitiously. In this gritty tour de force of travel writing and political reportage, he covers an arc from West Africa to Southeast Asia, across a world in which nation-states are giving way to warring nationalities and where metas...(展开全部)

Embark on the most astounding of odysseys, a voyage into realms not only stranger than we can imagine but also far, far more beautiful. "Universe: A Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos" leads us into a celestial panorama that extends for 130 billion trillion kilometres (80 billion trillion miles) in every direction, and allows us to explore nearly 200 of the most extra...(展开全部)

Let acclaimed Tolkien artist John Howe take you on an unforgettable journey across Middle-earth, from Bag End to Mordor, in this richly illustrated sketchbook fully of previously unseen artwork, anecdotes and meditations on Middle-earth. Middle-earth has been mapped, Bilbo’s and Frodo’s journeys plotted and measured, but Middle-earth remains a wilderland for all that. The roads...(展开全部)

约翰·豪（John Howe），1957年出生于加拿大温哥华，在不列颠哥伦比亚省长大，毕业于法国斯特拉斯堡艺术学院，现居瑞士。作为世界著名的插画艺术家，约翰·豪的画作成功使众多读者流连奇境乐而忘返。其在世界各地举办过多次画展，出版有多部画集。 约翰·豪不仅以画作促成中洲传奇搬上大银幕，其与搭档、奥斯卡最佳艺术指导奖得主艾伦·李为共摘得17项奥斯卡奖的《指环王》系列电影所做的艺术设计更让全世界书迷美梦成真。2009年，两人重返新西兰，为电影《霍比特人》系列再度构建中洲。