A beautifully produced paperback edition of the literary art book hailed as one of the best and most continually fascinating books about painting in recent memory. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting wi...(展开全部)

Bawdy and tough-talking, wickedly funny and wantonly sensual, Blind Man With a Pistol is a surreal joyride through Harlem in a heatwave. Detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are side-tracked from investigating a series of organised race riots when a white man with a cut throat and no trousers falls dead at their feet. Told in a thrilling chaos of impressions over...(展开全部)

Bawdy and tough-talking, wickedly funny and wantonly sensual, Blind Man With a Pistol is a surreal joyride through Harlem in a heatwave. Detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are side-tracked from investigating a series of organised race riots when a white man with a cut throat and no trousers falls dead at their feet. Told in a thrilling chaos of impressions over...(展开全部)

The renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Z hang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Z hang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred years of r...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China??s Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for 229 years. Zhang??s early life was marked by the expansive sense of progress that permeated Ming culture: the flouris...(展开全部)

迈克尔·克莱顿（1942—2008） Michael Crichton 作家、编剧、导演。他是“科幻惊悚小说之父”，《侏罗纪公园》系列电影和美剧《西部世界》的原作者。曾在哈佛学院学文学，转系后获得人类学学士学位，后毕业于哈佛医学院。1992 年被《人物》杂志评选为“世界极富魅力的50 人”之一。 他早年的研究为他积累了人类学、医学、生物学和神经学领域的渊博知识，为他日后的文学创作奠定了坚实的基础。20世纪90 年代他的作品《侏罗纪公园》被好莱坞导演斯蒂芬? 斯皮尔伯格搬上银幕，之后成为家喻户晓的经典电影。他自己导演的《西部世界》，上映时万人空巷，成为科幻电影里程碑式作品。2016 年，这部影片被改编为同名美剧《西部世界》，包揽包括艾美奖在内的26 个大奖。他还是曾获艾美奖的电视连续剧《急诊室的故事》的编剧与制片人。 克莱顿一生创作了多部小说，作品被译...(展开全部)

拉梅特里（1709-1751）法国启蒙运动时期唯物主义哲学家，职业：医生。他以自然科学为根据，提出自己的唯物主义观点。 先后出版有《精神的自然历史》、《人是机器》

Stieg Larsson's #1 bestselling mystery featuring Lisbeth Salander is now a major motion picture directed by David Fincher, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, from Columbia Pictures/Sony. In theaters December 2011. The first volume in the Millennium Trilogy, and an international publishing sensation, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love ...(展开全部)