“Enlightening… In thoughtful vignettes, Thackara examines numerous grassroots initiatives around the world [and] proposes ‘an economy based on social energy,’ that uses a very small percentage of the resources presently used… Recommended.”―Choice Are there practical solutions to the many global challenges―climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare―that threaten our way of...(展开全部)

Twelve visions of the future―by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant―from new and established voices in science fiction. In this book, new and established voices in science fiction come together to offer original stories of the future. Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that hijacks our empathy; Elizabeth Bear shows us a smart home tricked into kidnapping its owner; ...(展开全部)

HTML5 and CSS3 are the future of web development, but you don't have to wait to start using them. Even though the specification is still in development, many modern browsers and mobile devices already support HTML5 and CSS3. This book gets you up to speed on the new HTML5 elements and CSS3 features you can use right now, and backwards compatible solutions ensure that you don't ...(展开全部)

In Art Today Brandon Taylor charts the ideas and practices of contemporary art across a wide international spectrum. From Minimalism and Conceptualism to video and film, from painting and sculpture to performance and installation, he shows how advanced art has continued to provoke and perplex a fascinated public. Art Today shows how the new art of the last three decades has bee...(展开全部)

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated overview of contemporary sculpture.

With Astronomy Today, Sixth Edition, trusted authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan communicate their excitement about astronomy and awaken students to the universe around them. Thoroughly updated, the revised edition focuses on the process of scientific discovery and scientific method, making “how we know what we know” a more integral part of the text with attention to clear...(展开全部)

埃里克·蔡森拥有哈佛大学的天体物理学博士学位，在哈佛大学艺术与科学系工作了10年。在其后二十多年的时间里，他在空间望远镜科学研究所担任高级科学工作人员，并且拥有约翰霍普金斯大学和塔夫茨大学的多种教职。现在他又回到哈佛，在哈佛-史密松天体物理中心任教并进行研究。埃里克撰写 了12本有关天文学的书，在专业期刊上发表了近200篇科学论文。 史蒂夫·麦克米伦拥有剑桥大学的数学学士和硕士学位，以及哈佛大学的天文学博士学位。他在伊利诺伊大学和西北大学从事博士后科研工作，在那里继续有关理论天体物理、星团和高性能计算的研究。史蒂夫现在是德雷塞尔大学的杰出教授，并且是普林斯顿高级研究所和莱顿大学的长期访问学者。他在专业期刊上发表了超过100篇文章和科学论文。 译者简介 高健，理学博士，毕业于北京师范大学天文系，现为北京师范大学副教授，北京天文学会会员、中国天文学会会员...(展开全部)

埃里克·蔡森拥有哈佛大学的天体物理学博士学位，在哈佛大学艺术与科学系工作了10年。在其后二十多年的时间里，他在空间望远镜科学研究所担任高级科学工作人员，并且拥有约翰霍普金斯大学和塔夫茨大学的多种教职。现在他又回到哈佛，在哈佛-史密松天体物理中心任教并进行研究。埃里克撰写 了12本有关天文学的书，在专业期刊上发表了近200篇科学论文。 史蒂夫·麦克米伦拥有剑桥大学的数学学士和硕士学位，以及哈佛大学的天文学博士学位。他在伊利诺伊大学和西北大学从事博士后科研工作，在那里继续有关理论天体物理、星团和高性能计算的研究。史蒂夫现在是德雷塞尔大学的杰出教授，并且是普林斯顿高级研究所和莱顿大学的长期访问学者。他在专业期刊上发表了超过100篇文章和科学论文。 译者简介 高健，理学博士，毕业于北京师范大学天文系，现为北京师范大学副教授，北京天文学会会员、中国天文学会会员...(展开全部)

From Dior's New Look to Belgian deconstructionism, Japanese futurism and British eclecticism, fashion since 1947 has gone through a bewildering array of changes, Providing a thematic survey of fashion, each chapter of this book deals with a particular aspect of fashion obsession, from elegance to fetishism, from haute-couture to street-style, and from the one-off to the mass ma...(展开全部)