How does technology advance? How can we best assimilate innovation? These questions and others are considered by experts on the theories and applications of technological innovations. Considering subjects as diverse as the diffusion of new technologies and their industrial applications, governmental policies, and manifestations of innovation in our institutions, history, and en...(展开全部)

How does technology advance? How can we best assimilate innovation? These questions and others are considered by experts on the theories and applications of technological innovations. Considering subjects as diverse as the diffusion of new technologies and their industrial applications, governmental policies, and manifestations of innovation in our institutions, history, and en...(展开全部)

Love, or at least pornography, are for sale at the arty Calliope Kinema Club on posh, proper Wilkinson Square. According to Yorkshire police superintendent Dalziel, it's all legal. Detective Peter Pascoe, however, doesn't believe it. His dentist, who knows real broken teeth and blood when he sees them, insists that the pretty actress wasn't playing a part when it happened. But ...(展开全部)

'Deplorably readable' Observer Everyone knew about the kind of films they showed at the Calliope Club -- once the Residents' Association and the local Women's Group had given them some free publicity. But when Peter Pascoe's dentist suggests that one film in particular is more than just good clean dirty fun, the inspector begins to make a few discreet inquiries. Before they be...(展开全部)

First U.S. edition Designer: C. Linda Dingler Jacket design by Michelle Maldeau A Pinch of Snuff is a 1978 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the fifth novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series. Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, Inspector Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is c...(展开全部)

雷吉纳德•希尔Reginald Charles Hill （1936— ） 雷吉纳德•希尔出生于英国的达勒姆郡。一九六〇年自牛津大学圣凯瑟琳学院毕业后任职教育界，一九八一年起专职写作。在他的系列罪案小说中，他刻画的人物形象“达尔齐尔和帕斯科”被英国《每日电讯报》称为“罪案现场最佳神探二人组”。英国媒体盛赞他为“英国在世最优秀的罪案作家”。著有最具反差性格却最有默契的“达尔齐尔和帕斯科”警探系列。这套以英国约克郡为故事场景的系列作品，已创作二十余部，声势至今不坠。此成就也使作者成为推理文坛的佼佼者。 希尔的小说中时常展其深厚的文学功力及周密的布局思考，角色塑造鲜明生动，对白机智风趣，擅长描绘人性的恐惧与失落，在营造紧张气氛上则熟练而有节奏；故事结构往往多线交错，却时时点缀从未失手的幽默氛围；谜团的设计亦合情入理，给人相当真实的感受。在一九七〇年出版的第...(展开全部)

克里斯 梅森是前暴雪娱乐创意开发部门的副总裁。他曾是暴雪所有产品背后故事背景和创意方向的主要力量之一。梅森在上世纪90年代中期进入暴雪任美工，并为《魔兽争霸2》说明手册创作了很多概念原画。他的作品一直是暴雪游戏世界不可或缺的组成部分，尽管他的工作更倾向于故事内容的构建。 梅森已于2016年底离开暴雪娱乐，但由他亲自操刀创作的《魔兽世界编年史》第二卷，始终是严谨、准确的《魔兽世界》大史记。

This book, which can be read independently, deals with more specifically linguistic problems in semantics and contains substantial original material.

In times past, the world was full of mythical creatures - creatures long since banished and held at bay by the secret society of Shepherds. But when the generational line of Shepherds is broken, a reluctant hero finds her life threatened from every quarter. And the creatures are coming back. "Lore" is a fantasy novel that comes in two volumes.