David MacBrayne's involvement in West Highland shipping services soon grew to encompass all of the major routes to the Isles. The company was eventually taken into state ownership and amalgamated with

The Holland America Line was founded in 1873 and operated a fleet of passenger and cargo vessels from the Netherlands to the east and west coasts of America. The company later acquired the stock of th

This book provides for the first time a complete look at all of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's contributions to the great age of steamship design. From modelling boats as a child to his youthful dreams of

High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet—to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves. But now the great artificial intelligence is failing. The Oversoul has lost access to some of its memory banks, and some of its p...(展开全部)

（英国）山姆·威利斯（Sam Willis） 史学博士，海洋史学家，考古学家。著有《战舰图文史》系列等作品。BBC多部大型系列历史纪录片主持人，历史频道、国家地理频道、发现频道等各类节目的海洋史顾问。英国皇家历史学会（RHS）会士，英国收藏家协会（SA）会员。

（英国）山姆·威利斯（Sam Willis） 史学博士，海洋史学家，考古学家。著有《战舰图文史》系列等作品。BBC多部大型系列历史纪录片主持人，历史频道、国家地理频道、发现频道等各类节目的海洋史顾问。英国皇家历史学会（RHS）会士，英国收藏家协会（SA）会员。

（英国）山姆·威利斯（Sam Willis） 史学博士，海洋史学家，考古学家。著有《战舰图文史》系列等作品。BBC多部大型系列历史纪录片主持人，历史频道、国家地理频道、发现频道等各类节目的海洋史顾问。英国皇家历史学会（RHS）会士，英国收藏家协会（SA）会员。

The first ever illustrated paperback of part two of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring 16 colour paintings by Alan Lee.

A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. FROM THE PREFACE: It is now widely recognised that great changes must be made in the American way of...(展开全部)

伯勒斯·弗雷德里克·斯金纳（Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1904-1990）是20世纪后半叶最卓越、最著名的心理学家之一。他于1904年3月20日出生在宾夕法尼亚州萨斯奎汉纳的一个中产阶级家庭。在斯金纳晚年回忆中，父母对其管教严格。父亲假期曾带他参观乡下的监狱，以体会行为不当会产生怎样的后果。在读中学时，他擅长文学，但科学成绩不佳。1922年，斯金纳进入汉密尔顿学院学习文学。大学毕业后，他投身于文学事业，但结果一事无成，还差一点因精神问题去看心理医生。后因受巴甫洛夫（Ivan Petrovich Pavlov）和华生（John Broadus Watson）等人著作的影响，决定转向行为主义心理学。他曾经指出，其科学生涯的一项指导原则就是巴甫洛夫的一句简单格言，即如果你控制了你的环境，你就会看到秩序。斯金纳于1928年进入哈佛大...(展开全部)