Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrat...(展开全部)

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Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and d...(展开全部)

Networks are everywhere, from the Internet, to social networks, and the genetic networks that determine our biological existence. Illustrated throughout in full colour, this pioneering textbook, spanning a wide range of topics from physics to computer science, engineering, economics and the social sciences, introduces network science to an interdisciplinary audience. From the o...(展开全部)

The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network’s role as a way for people to construct and manage their worl...(展开全部)

Patrick Jagoda is professor of English and cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and executive editor of Critical Inquiry. He is the author of Network Aesthetics, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coauthor of The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer.

The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network’s role as a way for people to construct and manage their worl...(展开全部)

Networks are everywhere, from the Internet, to social networks, and the genetic networks that determine our biological existence. Illustrated throughout in full colour, this pioneering textbook, spanning a wide range of topics from physics to computer science, engineering, economics and the social sciences, introduces network science to an interdisciplinary audience. From the o...(展开全部)

忠告：不要看书上的简介！！！ 重复：不要看书上的简介！！！ 再来：不要看书上的简介！！！ 最后：不要看书上的简介！！！ ------------------------------------ 16岁的少年弗兰克，从小和他的父亲同住在一个荒凉的小岛上。他个性孤僻、性情冷漠、迷恋暴力，喜欢残杀小动物，以此预测将要发生的事情。 从小，他的家庭就充满阴影――在他出生后不久，他的母亲就离家出走，他的父亲也没有为他办理出生证明。他的大哥一直痛恨他的父亲，一度离家出走，后因为试图纵火烧死一群狗而被关进精神病院。 ……然而，这一切又都是为了什么？ ------------------------------------ 小说中，伊恩・班克斯对人性及社会黑暗洞察入微――在一系列看似恐怖血腥的故事中隐藏着对人类命运的深度思考，以及对科技发展所带来的负面影响的深刻忧虑。...(展开全部)

忠告：不要看书上的简介！！！ 重复：不要看书上的简介！！！ 再来：不要看书上的简介！！！ 最后：不要看书上的简介！！！ ------------------------------------ 16岁的少年弗兰克，从小和他的父亲同住在一个荒凉的小岛上。他个性孤僻、性情冷漠、迷恋暴力，喜欢残杀小动物，以此预测将要发生的事情。 从小，他的家庭就充满阴影――在他出生后不久，他的母亲就离家出走，他的父亲也没有为他办理出生证明。他的大哥一直痛恨他的父亲，一度离家出走，后因为试图纵火烧死一群狗而被关进精神病院。 ……然而，这一切又都是为了什么？ ------------------------------------ 小说中，伊恩・班克斯对人性及社会黑暗洞察入微――在一系列看似恐怖血腥的故事中隐藏着对人类命运的深度思考，以及对科技发展所带来的负面影响的深刻忧虑。...(展开全部)