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星际倒客 (v. 1.1.01)

ZuiKong.com 最空网掌上娱乐 опубликовал приложение 2011-07-07
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The Castle Of Otranto Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-07-07
(обновлено 2011-07-07)

About the Book
The Castle of Otranto

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favorite among his numerous works. The novel is reprinted here from a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press.

About the Author
Horace Walpole, 1717–1797

Miscellaneous writer, third son of Sir Robert W., the great minister of George II., was born in London, and ed. at Eton and Cambridge, after which he travelled on the Continent with Gray, the poet (q.v.). His father bestowed several lucrative appointments upon him, and he sat in Parliament for various places, but never took any prominent part in public business. By the death of his nephew, the 3rd Earl, he became in 1791 4th Earl of Orford. In 1747 he purchased the villa of Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, the conversion of which into a small Gothic Castle and the collection of the works of art and curios with which it was decorated was the main interest of his subsequent life. His position in society gave him access to the best information on all contemporary subjects of interest, and he was as successful in collecting gossip as curios. He also erected a private press, from which various important works, including Gray’s Bard, as well as his own writings, were issued. Among the latter are Letter from Xo Ho to his Friend Lien Chi at Pekin [1757], The Castle of Otranto, the forerunner of the romances of terror of Mrs. Radcliffe and “Monk” Lewis, The Mysterious Mother (1768), a tragedy of considerable power, Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, Anecdotes of Painting, Catalogue of Engravers (1763), Essay on Modern Gardening, Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of George II., Memoirs of the Reign of George III., and above all his Letters, 2700 in number, vivacious, interesting, and often brilliant. W. never married

Voltaire Collection Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-07-07
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This book contain collection of 5 books

1. Voltaire / by John Morley
2. Zadig [1747]
3. Micromégas [1752]
4. Candide [1759]
5. Dictionnaire philosophique [1764]

About the Author
Voltaire, 1694-1778.

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher.

Voltaire was known for his sharp wit, philosophical writings, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and the right to a fair trial. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws in France and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Church dogma and the French institutions of his day. Voltaire is considered one of the most influential figures of his time.

Alfred Russel Wallace Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-07-07
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This book contain collection of 4 books

1. The Malay Archipelago
2. On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species
3. On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original
4. Mimicry, and Other Protective Resemblances Among Animals

About the Author
Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823-1913

British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.

Virgil Collection Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-07-07
(обновлено 2011-07-07)

This book contain collection of 3 books

1. The Aeneid ; translated by John Dryden
2. The Eclogues ; translated by J. B. Greenough
3. The Georgics ; translated by J. B. Greenough

About the Author
Virgil (70-19 BC)

Publius Vergilius Maro (also known by the Anglicised forms of his name as Virgil or Vergil) was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works—the Bucolics (or Eclogues), the Georgics and the Aeneid—although several minor poems are also attributed to him. The son of a farmer, Virgil came to be regarded as one of Rome's greatest poets; his Aeneid as Rome's national epic.

Jules Verne Collection Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-07-07
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This book contain collection of 38 books

1. Cinq Semaines en Ballon [1863]
2. Les Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras [1864]
3. Voyage au Centre de la Terre [1864]
4. De La Terre a La Lune [1865]
5. Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant [1867-68]
6. Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers (1869-70)
7. Autour de la Lune [1870]
8. Le Tour du Mond en quatre-vingts jours [1873]
9. L'Ile Mystérieuse [1874]
10. Michel Strogoff: Moscou-Irkutsk [1876]
11. Les Indes Noires [1877]
12. Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum [1879]
13. Kéreban-le-Tétu [1883]
14. L'Archipel en Feu [1884]
15. Robur-le-Conquerant [1886]
16. Le chateau des Carpathes [1892]
17. Five Weeks in a Balloon [1869]
18. The English at the North Pole
19. The Field of Ice
20. Journey to the Interior of the Earth [1871]
21. From the Earth to the Moon [1867]
22. Round the Moon [1873]
23. In Search of the Castaways [1873]
24. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea [1872]
25. Around the World in Eighty Days [1873]
26. The Fur Country [1873]
27. The Mysterious Island [1874]
28. The Survivors of the Chancellor [1875]
29. Michael Strogoff [1876]
30. The Underground City (The Child of the Cavern) [1877]
31. Off on a Comet [1877]
32. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon [1881]
33. Robur the Conqueror [1887]
34. The Master of the World [1904]
35. A Drama in the Air [1852]
36. Master Zacharius [1874]
37. A Winter Amid the Ice [1874]
38. Doctor Ox's Experiment [1874]

About the Author
Jules Verne, 1828-1905

French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (written in 1864), From the Earth to the Moon [1865], Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869-1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequently he is often referred to as the "Father of science fiction", along with H. G. Wells. Verne is the second most translated author of all time, only behind Agatha Christie

The Theory Of The Leisure (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-07-07
(обновлено 2011-07-07)

About the Book
The Theory of the Leisure Class [1899]

This classic of economic thought is a scathing critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. Chief among the practices that Veblen so wittily satirizes is 'conspicuous consumption', a pattern of behaviour that still flourishes among us.

In the book, Veblen argues that economic life is driven not by notions of utility, but by social vestiges from pre-historic times. Drawing examples from the contemporary period and anthropology, he held that much of today's society is a variation on early tribal life.

According to Veblen, beginning with primitive tribes, people began to adopt a division of labor along certain lines. The "higher status" group monopolized war and hunting, while farming and cooking were considered inferior work.

He argued this was due to barbarism and conquest of some tribes over others. Once conquerors took control, they relegated the more menial and labor-intensive jobs to the subjugated people, while retaining the more warlike and violent work for themselves. It did not matter that these "menial" jobs did more to support society (in Veblen's view) than the "higher" ones. Even within tribes that were initially free of conquerors or violence, Veblen argued that certain individuals, upon watching this labor division take place in other groups, began to emulate the behavior in higher-status groups.

Veblen referred to the emerging ruling class as the "leisure class." He argued that while this class did perform some work and contributed to the tribe's well-being, it did so in only a minor, peripheral, and largely symbolic manner. For example, although hunting could provide the tribe with food, it was not as productive or reliable as farming or animal domestication, and compared with the latter types of work, was relatively easier to perform. Likewise, while tribes occasionally required warriors if a conflict broke out, Veblen argued that militaristic members of the leisure class retained their position—and, with it, exemption from menial work—even during the extremely long stretches of time when there was no war, even though they were perfectly capable of contributing to the tribe's "menial" work during times of peace.

About the Author
Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Tosten Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American sociologist and economist and a primary mentor, along with John R. Commons, of the institutional economics movement. Besides his technical work he was a popular and witty critic of capitalism, as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).

Veblen is famous in the History of economic thought for combining a Darwinian evolutionary perspective with his new institutionalist approach to economic analysis. He combined sociology with economics in his masterpiece, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), arguing there was a basic distinction between the productiveness of "industry," run by engineers, which manufactures goods, and the parasitism of "business," which exists only to make profits for a leisure class. The chief activity of the leisure class was "conspicuous consumption", and their economic contribution is "waste," activity that contributes nothing to productivity. The American economy was therefore made inefficient and corrupt by the businessmen, though he never made that claim explicit. Veblen believed that technological advances were the driving force behind cultural change, but, unlike many contemporaries, he refused to connect change with progress.

バカにつける心理学 (v. 1.0)

セントラル・スペーシャル・テクノロジー株式会社 опубликовал приложение 2011-07-07
(обновлено 2011-07-07)

日々お怒りの日本人に捧ぐ心理学！
どうしてアイツはバカなのか。好き勝手に自由に生きるバカに振り回されている人も多いことでしょう。そこで、“バカにつける薬”として、「バカの脳内・ココロが理解できる心理学」を解説。「それってあるある!」的な事例をあげ、そのバカの心理を分析していきます。

日本人が知らない　医療の常識 (v. 1.0)

セントラル・スペーシャル・テクノロジー株式会社 опубликовал приложение 2011-07-07
(обновлено 2011-07-07)

男性の平均寿命が79歳、女性の平均寿命が86歳。そんな長寿大国ニッポンは最先端の医療技術のたまものだけど、歩みが速すぎて我々の知識が追いつかない。知っておきたい、知らないと損する、医療の現場ではもはや当たり前の治療法や技術、薬の常識を、健康を願うみなさんのために１冊にまとめました。

The End Of Books By Octave (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-07-07
(обновлено 2011-07-07)

About the Book
The End of Books (La Fin Des Livres) [1894]

In 1895 Octave Uzanne and Albert Robida published, in France, Contes pour les Bibliophiles (Stories for Bibliophiles). We're going to re-publish this as an e-book, taking advantage of the ability of modern technology to reproduce the color and monochrome images in ways that would be prohibitively expensive to duplicate on paper. Here's a sample to get your interest piqued.

The eleven stories in Contes, all revolving around books (or at least printing) are interesting, bizarre, weird... one could go on in true Fanthorpian fashion. But even better than the stories are the illustrations by Albert Robida.

Robida was born in 1848 and died in 1926. During his lifetime he reportedly drew 60,000 pictures and wrote and/or illustrated over 200 books. His first published work came out in 1866, and he appeared in "La Vie Parisienne," as well as journals less well-known to the world outside France. One of his works, La Guerre au XXe Siècle (1887) is of some interest in the field of science-fictional treatments of future wars, and is the subject of current papers and a critical edition by I. F. Clarke in Britain.

Robida is forgotten (or was never known) in America, but in France he is remembered. His sketches and caricatures, particularly of humorous and satirical visions of what lay in the future, were decades ahead of their time. Disney adopted some of his drawings as backgrounds for their views of the future at a pavilion at Epcot, and web sites attempt today to bring some of his best work back into circulation.

About the Author
Octave Uzanne, 1852-1931

French man of letters, bibliophile, editor and journalist. After studying classics, he moved to Paris to devote himself to books. From 1875, he worked at Advisor Bibliophile and then founded successively four journals: Bibliographical Miscellany, The Book, The Book Modern and Art and the Idea. In 1889, with 160 others, he founded a publishing company of French writers, the League of contemporary bibliophiles, later the Society of Independent bibliophiles.

He also published personal works: novels, fantasy books, literature reviews. They are lavishly illustrated editions in small print, produced in collaboration with artists such as Paul Avril and Felicien Rops.

Between two books, Uzanne circumnavigated the world in 1893.

Uzanne worked with Albert Robida on a collection of tales, Contes pour les bibliophiles, which contains the famous story called La Fin des livres (The End of Books).

He spent his last years in his apartment in St. Cloud, always surrounded by books and still writing.