本书揭示了数码信息时代的电子传媒与赛博空间为人类历史的发展提供的新的可能性。本书第一部分“通向未来的高速公路”，涉及无线想象、政治技术和极权主义在赛博空间的消解等题旨；第二部分“赛博空间的想象” ，讨论空间文学探索简史、电影和文化的数码化；第三部分”可能的世界” ，关涉世界观的信息化、数码复制时代的世界、数码此在等层面；第四、五部分探讨主页时代的身份、虚拟人类学、虚拟多神论、赛博空间的进化、超人文主义等问题。全书观念新颖、信息丰富，具有显而易见的思想前沿性。
本书诞生于一次神游，它记录了一个几乎延续十年的穿越赛博空间的旅程。起程之际与20世纪90年代初万维网和虚拟现实的出现时间大致巧合，那时，图像浏览器已经把单维的、文本中心的互联网变成了一种双维的多媒体工具，虚拟现实已经成为可能，使用者可以通过电脑屏幕进入三维世界。数年之中，曾经是科幻小说的非非之想，已经变成千百万使用者日常生活中的现实。许多人都见证了这些变化，虽然其中某些事物的影响尚未完全呈现出来，但也无可置疑地提示着，这个世界和我们自己都因此而正在发生基本的改变。

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind
All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.
In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors’ darkest secrets.
This is the first book about the Detection Club, the world’s most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on years of in-depth research, it reveals the astonishing story of how members such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers reinvented detective fiction.
Detective stories from the so-called “Golden Age” between the wars are often dismissed as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth: some explore forensic pathology and shocking serial murders, others delve into police brutality and miscarriages of justice; occasionally the innocent are hanged, or murderers get away scot-free. Their authors faced up to the Slump and the rise of Hitler during years of economic misery and political upheaval, and wrote books agonising over guilt and innocence, good and evil, and explored whether killing a fellow human being was ever justified. Though the stories included no graphic sex scenes, sexual passions of all kinds seethed just beneath the surface.
Attracting feminists, gay and lesbian writers, Socialists and Marxist sympathisers, the Detection Club authors were young, ambitious and at the cutting edge of popular culture – some had sex lives as bizarre as their mystery plots. Fascinated by real life crimes, they cracked unsolved cases and threw down challenges to Scotland Yard, using their fiction to take revenge on people who hurt them, to conduct covert relationships, and even as an outlet for homicidal fantasy. Their books anticipated not only CSI, Jack Reacher and Gone Girl, but also Lord of the Flies. The Club occupies a unique place in Britain’s cultural history, and its influence on storytelling in fiction, film and television throughout the world continues to this day.
The Golden Age of Murder rewrites the story of crime fiction with unique authority, transforming our understanding of detective stories and the brilliant but tormented men and women who wrote them.

For Carrie, Chris and Cathy the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds.Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist and grandmother was convinced they had the devil in them.But that wasn't their fault. Was it?Cathy knew what to do. She knew it was time to show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten...Show them. Show them -- once and for all.

Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father. So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic. Just for a little while. But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed.... 'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive....'

Amanda just isn't herself lately. She must need more sleep. Or have low-blood sugar. Or be possesed by an ancient demon.

This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined.
Digital ethnography is central to our understanding of the social world; it can shape methodology and methods, and provides the technological tools needed to research society. The authoritative team of authors clearly set out how to research localities, objects and events as well as providing insights into exploring individuals’ or communities’ lived experiences, practices and relationships.

Book Description
Scientists from many disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, contribute to the study of cognition. Cognitive psychology, the science of the human mind and of how people process information, is at the core of empirical investigations into the nature of mind and thought.
This anthology is based on the assumption that cognitive psychology is at heart empirical philosophy. Many of the core questions about thought, language, perception, memory, and knowledge of other people's minds were for centuries the domain of philosophy. The book begins with the philosophical foundations of inquiry into the nature of mind and thought, in particular the writings of Descartes, and then covers the principal topics of cognitive psychology including memory, attention, and decision making.
The book organizes a daunting amount of information, underlining the essentials, while also introducing readers to the ambiguities and controversies of research. It is arranged thematically and includes many topics not typically taught in cognition courses, including human factors and ergonomics, evolutionary psychology, music cognition, and experimental design.
The contributors include Daniel Dennett, Daniel Kahneman, Jay McClelland, Donald Norman, Michael Posner, Stephen Palmer, Eleanor Rosch, John Searle, Roger Shepard, and Anne Treisman.
Book Info
(A Bradford Book) McGill Univ, Canada. Anthology is based on the assumption of cognitive psychology as an empirical philosophy. Topics include thought, language, perception, memory, and knowledge of other's minds. Underlines essentials and introduces readers to the ambiguities and controversies of research. Softcover.

By focusing on the fundamentals, highlighting the contributions of neuroscience, and underscoring the practical side of the field, the author provides students with an affordable text that is contemporary and accessible. Key features include: - A focus on the 'essentials' avoids bogging down students in tangential or esoteric asides or in topics more suitable for discussion in advanced follow up courses. - Integrated coverage of neuroscience highlights how understanding of all aspects of cognitive psychology is rapidly being enhanced by better understanding of biological substrates. This is further supported by use of a four-colour insert on brain imaging technology. - Applications are integrated, not boxed, to draw in students with interesting and practical implications of cognitive research in areas such as reliability of eyewitness memory, creativity, or improving learning and decision making skills. - Margin notes highlight and summarize key concepts, thus helping students in previewing and reviewing each chapter.- Key terms are highlighted with boldface and defined in context when first introduced, listed at the end of each chapter, and collected in a glossary at the end of the book to assist students in mastering the vocabulary of the field. - Chapter-concluding summaries help students effectively integrate the material. - Students are guided to web sites, including ones that provide opportunities for hands-on mini-experiments for interactive learning. - An Intructor's Resource CD provides materials for PowerPoint presentations, suggestions for further reading and web resources, and test questions.

《传播与认知科学:媒介心理生理学测量的理论与方法》是对媒介反应的心理生理学研究的一个综合全面的介绍。它介绍了媒介心理生理学的理论基础、方法技巧，以及这一领域的大多数最新的研究成果。它是对传播学中最重要的分支领域之一传播过程和效果研究的一个拓展，它所展示的实时的心理生理学反应的测量方法，大大增强了传统的媒介效果的心理学研究，对后者来说是一个重要的补充。

米歇尔•法柏的首部作品展示他异常生动的想象力，对语言深沉的爱，和具有创新意识的才艺。戏谑好玩却又感动人心，讽刺入骨却又富有人情味，这些故事总能给人以意料不到的共鸣。
法柏的小说是昏暗模糊的，轻松愉快的，脆弱易碎的，辛辣嘲讽的，超越世俗的。这些有趣的特质集合起来使得它们对于英国的短篇小说来说，就像维他命一样富有营养。
——大卫•米切尔（英国作家）
致短篇小说爱好者：你们将看到萨默塞特•毛姆与伊恩•麦克尤恩的风格首次结合，《雨必将落下》是其怪诞又精彩的产出。
——邓肯•马克林（英国作家）
炙手可热的新天才，短篇小说形式的大师。
——《泰晤士报》
法柏的笔触可以由愉悦的描述急转为辛辣幽默的领悟。理智而敏锐……这是一个冉冉升起的天才。——《观察家报》
法柏无所畏惧。上帝、宇宙、爱、卫生棉——无不在其笔下。你几乎能看到他在星空下好奇地思索，他也并不介意把他的思绪告诉你。
——《苏格兰人报》
法柏的首部作品是一块别具一格的美玉，不拘流派，时有惊喜。
——《苏格兰周日报》

融合了雷蒙德•钱德勒式的风格，菲利普•迪克式的想象的科幻推理杰作
一次黑暗、幽默的后现代狂欢
1994年入围星云奖短名单；1995年《卢卡斯》杂志年度最佳处女作；1995年《轨迹》杂志年度最佳小说；1998年入选《审理》杂志“100部今生必看的科幻图书”。
在美国西海岸的一个未来世界里，动物能够像人一样说话行事；婴儿有个大脑袋，也能想成人一样说话；问问题成了人们彼此之间的禁忌；广播里播放的是音乐新闻；人们吸食各种毒品，或振奋心情，或者遗忘过去。管理这个世界的是异端调查局，一旦发现有人犯罪，就会扣除他们的摩羯点，等摩羯点数扣除到零的时候，他们就会被投进冰箱里冷藏，等刑期过后，才放出来。一个带有浓厚的反乌托邦色彩的世界设定。
私家侦探康拉德•麦卡夫特的侦探所里来一个年轻人，他被异端调查局怀疑是杀死医生梅纳德•斯坦亨特的凶手，为洗脱嫌疑，请求麦卡夫特的帮助。麦卡夫特慢慢地卷入了案件中。他穿行于城市的各个地方，带出了这个世界光怪陆离的场景、法则，和各种人物，有吸食遗忘剂、住豪华别墅的女人、有跟成人说话的婴儿脑袋、有带枪的袋鼠、有调查局探员、有同样做私家侦探的猿猴等等。案情在不断受阻中慢慢明朗，但就在麦卡夫特快要找到真相的时候，他因为耗竭了所有摩羯点数，被投入了冰箱里，直到六年后才出来……
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勒瑟姆创作了一个雷蒙德•钱德勒和威廉•巴勒斯的结合体，是一笔来自达希尔•哈米特和赫胥黎馈赠的遗产。只能以此描述这部融合了黑色推理、科幻、反乌托邦色彩的惊艳之作。
——美国亚马逊读者
融合了钱德勒的风格与菲利普•迪克的想象，一部大胆而富有自信的初试啼声之作。
——《新闻周刊》
一部杰出的处女作，对科幻和神秘小说来说是一种可喜的新声音。
——《书单》
这部生动的作品节奏快速、活泼，充满了幽默的想象力和古怪的困境。
——《出版人周刊》
同名电影将由《坏中尉》的制片人波尔斯基兄弟监制出品，2012年上映

胶带自内封住门窗的密室，凶手如何逃脱？死人如何接听电话？嫌疑犯如何从电话亭中消失？声效能否杀人？真会有人来自另一个世界吗？……魔术般的神秘案件，就这样逐个发生。
摆在读者面前的这部短篇集，其作者克莱顿•劳森正是一位誉满全球的魔术大师。以他这样独特的身份，以及对魔术奥秘的深刻理解，势必就会想出一些迥异俗流的手法诡计。因之，这十二个短篇故事所带给你的，肯定是疑惑接着疑惑、误导接着误导，还有从头到尾的魔术推理。无怪乎有人曾说：被这位卓越的推理巫师克莱顿•劳森挑战，真是件无上快事！

在元旦新年的守岁夜，伦敦有四个失意绝望的人：因为跟一个15岁少女上床而声败名裂的电视名人马丁；除了照顾自己严重残疾的成年儿子没有自己生活的中年妇女莫莲；因为姐姐几年前神秘失踪而一直走不出心理阴影的少女杰丝；和乐队解散、女友分手的美国摇滚歌手JJ。他们都想到著名的“礼帽大厦”楼顶跳楼自杀，四人在楼顶不期而遇。他们一起度过了一个晚上，讲述各自不幸的遭遇，第二天一早各自回家，但从此形成了一个奇怪的四人小团体，开始发生各种各样有趣的事情，比如他们试图挽救马丁的婚姻，结果一团糟；他们组成读书会，专门讨论自杀的作家们，他们还计划不周地匆匆去金丝雀群岛旅行……

重口味神作，阅读有风险，身体虚弱者勿入！
《搏击俱乐部》作者最黑暗最天才最虐心的神作。
读者在阅读后，不是火到想找作者单挑就是发出凄厉的惨叫或是整个人狂笑不行更有人虚脱到无法出声！
有73人在作者读《肠子》的时候晕倒，晕倒人数还在持续增加中。
本书包含了二十二个恐怖、好 笑，又让你反胃的故事。说这些故事的人都是应一则“作家研习营”的广告而来，却陷入类似“求生”情节的处境中——他们没有暖气，没有电力，没有食物。这些说故事的人越来越绝望时，他们的故事也越来越极端。然而，他们无情地密谋着，让自己成为由他们受苦经验改编而成的实境节目中的主角。这将是你所读过的最令人心里发毛且虐心的小说，唯有恰克·帕拉尼克才能写得出来。
《伊莎贝拉》《志明与春娇》导演彭浩翔鼎力推荐：
本书的精彩程度，是你看后不好意思再告诉朋友，自己也有写小说。它的好，到这个程度时，你不禁要抚心自问，要是这故事掉在你的门口，你能够说得比他更动听吗？那不单单是文笔用字的问题，而是在说故事的过程中，透露资讯的次序和速度，如何在三言两语之间，就把整个画面点出来，并让人有看下去的冲动。
年轻作者总以为每个读者跟他都有血缘关系，非要成为他的忠实崇拜者，每个字都要读完不可，完全没有想过如何吸引人看下去，只是一直在喃喃自语，自渎满纸。满街都是这样的闷作，让恰克·帕拉尼克更见珍贵。

惊世骇俗之作，关于生命和爱的最新诠释

•《周刊文春》年度最佳推理小说第1名
•“这本推理小说了不起”年度最佳第1名
•“我想读推理小说”年度第1名
•“本格推理”年度最佳第8名
•爱伦•坡大奖最佳首作短名单
•《教父》《银河系搭车客指南》译者姚向辉老师热情翻译
•引发全日本阅读狂潮的一部全方位类型小说
•为了写出传世之作，作家有时候可能得赌上身家性命……
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事情开始那天，我打扮得像我已经过世的妈妈。我十五岁的合伙人拆开来自监狱的一封信。一个快要被执行死刑的连环杀人犯居然是我的头号粉丝……
哈利•布洛赫是个潦倒的二流作家，靠以不同的笔名创作科幻、推理、吸血鬼等通俗小说和色情专栏为生。但他一直未能成名，精打细算，勉强度日。来自 监狱的一封信，让他的（名）作家梦再度燃烧起来。
来信者是臭名昭著的连环杀手达利安•克雷，此人以拍摄写真为名，杀害了多名年轻女性，即将被执行死刑。克雷提议由哈利代他写自传，条件是哈利必须去采访克雷的三位女粉丝，并把她们和克雷写进色情故事中。
哈利的女高中生合伙人克莱尔（也是他的家教学生）认为他能否成名在此一举，极力劝说他接受这个提议。
哈利开始采访迷恋连环杀人犯的怪异女性后，忽然陷在比他小说中的人物还危险的境地。三个女粉丝接连被以克雷的手法杀害。连环杀手明明就在监狱中，这是怎么回事？
哈利被迫当起侦探，还要担心自己会成为下一个受害者。与此同时，为了支撑生活，他还得继续创作科幻、推理和吸血鬼小说。
加入这场全方位类型小说的疯狂盛宴吧！

Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.
The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention.
Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French.
Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life.
Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs.
Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

Do You Always Use the Right Word?
Can You Pronounce It -- and Spell It -- Correctly?
Do You Know How to Avoid Illiterate Expressions?
Do You Speak Grammatically, Without Embarrassing Mistakes?
If the answer to any of these questions is NO, you ought to read Word Power Made Easy. Now thoroughly revised to eliminate outmoded references and to to reflect current idioms, it remains the best and quickest means to a better vocabulary in the English language.
Each chapter ends with review. Each section ends with a progressive check. Numerous tests will help you increase and retain the knowledge you acquired. Word Power Made Easy does more than just ass words to you vocabulary. It teaches ideas and a method of broadening knowledge as an integral part of the vocabulary building process.

本书是一部研究小说魔力的神奇之作——分析其主要元素，颂扬其持久动力。书中对我们这个时代最显著、最时髦的批判深入到了讲故事时的机械设定，由此提出一些基本的问题：当我们说”认识”某个虚构的人物时，这意味着什么？生动的细节由什么构成？何谓成功的隐喻？现实主义是现实的吗？为什么有些文学惯例变得过时，而另一些却保持活力？
从荷马到《给小鸭子让路》，从圣经到约翰·勒卡雷，詹姆斯·伍德广泛取材。本书既是一部虚构手法的研究佳作，也是一部小说的另类史。它幽默、深刻，无论你是作者还是读者，甚或是对此书该兴趣的路人甲，它都将对你有所启迪！