From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. Bringing detailed analysis of adaptations and literature together, Browning examines these films in their own right and suggests why they succeeded in scaring viewers, as well as why they often fail. The book rejects previous attempts to make the films and books fi...(展开全部)

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, ...(展开全部)

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, ...(展开全部)

***Listed in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION's Weekly Book List, April 4, 2011*** Interview with the author: http: //dgeneratefilms.com/critical-essays/cinematalk-a-conversation-with-professor-guo-juin-hong-on-taiwan-cinema-1949-and-documentaries/ A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, this is the first English language book that covers its entire history. Hong revises how ...(展开全部)

苹果创始人史蒂夫乔布斯的女儿，一个坦率，聪明，迷人的回忆录。 出生在一个农场，由她的父母 - 艺术家Chrisann Brennan和史蒂夫·乔布斯 - 丽莎·布伦南 - 乔布斯在一个快速变化的硅谷中展现了一个领域。在她年轻的时候，丽莎的父亲是一个神话人物，很少出现在她的生活中。随着年龄的增长，她的父亲对她产生兴趣，将她带入了一个新的世界，包括豪宅，度假和私立学校。他的注意力令人激动，但他也可能冷酷，批评和不可预测。当她与母亲的关系在高中变得紧张时，丽莎决定搬进她的父亲，希望他成为她一直希望他成为的父母。 Small Fry 是Lisa Brennan-Jobs关于童年和成长的痛苦故事。Scrappy，聪明，有趣，年轻的Lisa是一位令人难忘的导游，在这个地方和时间惊叹于在这个家庭中成长的特殊魔力，同时也在努力克服她的非婚生和羞耻感。一个复杂的家庭的...(展开全部)

作者以游记的形式给我们展现了上个世纪20年代中国社会满目疮痍的场景，再现了腐败政府的软弱无能与上流社会的纸醉金迷。通过调侃的讥讽，入木三分地刻画了外国列强的骄横虚伪和生活的空虚与无奈，以及朴实勤劳的中国民众所担负的深重灾难。

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in...(展开全部)

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in...(展开全部)

The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, what in his last writing he called simply "a life." They capture a problem that runs throughout his work--his long search for a new and superior empiricism. Announced in his first book, on David Hume, then taking off with his early studies of Nietzsche and Bergson, the problem of a...(展开全部)

The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, what in his last writing he called simply "a life." They capture a problem that runs throughout his work--his long search for a new and superior empiricism. Announced in his first book, on David Hume, then taking off with his early studies of Nietzsche and Bergson, the problem of a...(展开全部)