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当二战行将结束之际，核爆的阴云笼罩在广岛和长崎的上空。科技的发展对我们所处世界的安全所造成的影响是显而易见的。美国差一点就在核竞赛中失利，它也不会有如此的好运。 在阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦和一群值得信任的顾问的建议下，亨利·S·杜鲁门总统批准一项绝密计划，即在太平洋西北部偏远的地区设立一个住宅区，用以保护和照料全美最珍贵的人力资源。在那里居住的将是全国最伟大的思想、致力开创科学新纪元的天才科学家。在这里他们将受到最悉心的照料、获得最佳的科研环境。 最顶尖的建筑师和规划师们被召集到一起，来打造一个适宜这些超级天才居住的社区。这里能为他们的孩子提供最好的教育，为他们提供最好的医疗服务，在这里生活的每一个人都能这个地方能为他们的孩子提供最好的教育，最好的医疗服务，最好的生活福利设施以及生活质量。建设中的小镇堪与美国任何一个田园风光优美的小镇相媲美。他们之间只有一...。Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。跑不开的回忆——《长跑者的寂寞》 英国少年感化院里生活的少年犯了克林，因偷窃罪被囚，然而他于长跑的才华，令他受到高度重视，更获颁奖牌。不过，在漫长又孤独的集训中，他每每回忆起监禁前所遭遇的种种不幸。生活在这种矛盾之中，他对社会越来越不满，也充满了抵抗的态度。曾是英国“自由电影运动”热心分子的托尼·李察逊，以意识流手法探讨年轻人的叛逆心理，《长跑者的寂寞》可算是英国“愤怒派”代表性名作之一。。
