One of the great geniuses of the early Renaissance, Alberti was a master of historical architecture as well as a creator of some of his own era's lasting monuments. A noted writer and courtier, he embraced all of the activities of the 15th-century Italian "universal man," including being a superb athlete. To keep up with and relate all he achieved requires a superman of a histo...(展开全部)

One of the great geniuses of the early Renaissance, Alberti was a master of historical architecture as well as a creator of some of his own era's lasting monuments. A noted writer and courtier, he embraced all of the activities of the 15th-century Italian "universal man," including being a superb athlete. To keep up with and relate all he achieved requires a superman of a histo...(展开全部)

Like Michael Cunningham in "The Hours, " Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, "The Master" tells the story of a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.In stu...(展开全部)

Like Michael Cunningham in "The Hours, " Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, "The Master" tells the story of a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.In stu...(展开全部)

For a full description of this text, see Ellis, Becoming a Master Student, 10/e.</p> The concise version of this best-selling text accommodates shorter courses while still offering the key elements of the complete text by combining topics, and streamlining articles and activities.</p> New! Features from Becoming a Master Student, 10/e, also appear in the Concise edition, in...(展开全部)

The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional life—an astonishing and completely true story, the like of which has never before been told . . . or lived. Bill Mason is arguably the greatest jewel thief who ever lived. During a thirty-year career he charmed his way into the inn...(展开全部)

在另一个向度上，库切把陀思妥耶夫斯基的生活中人和其他作品的人物也邀请到 1869年的彼得堡，让他们和陀思妥耶夫斯基一起在“地下室”、“火”等属于陀思安耶夫斯基话语的场景里，参与到陀思妥耶夫斯基的精神生活中去。小说中，库切多采用现在进行时，并用他（he）来叙述，形成作品中的共时性。情节在共时性的作用下，使人物的自由行动处在一种关键时刻，是陀思妥耶夫斯基，也是库切让自己的主人公承受特殊的精神折磨，以此逼迫主人公把达到极度紧张的自我意识讲出来。正如巴赫金说的，陀思妥耶夫斯基的主人公都是些思想家式的人物：具有伟大而尚未解决的思想的小人物。那么，在《彼得堡的大师》中，库切创造了思想的陀思安耶夫斯基。这样，不仅是陀思安耶夫斯基的作品人物具有开放的、鲜活的他人意识，陀思妥耶夫斯基本人也拥有完全独立的声音，发出价值十足的议论，与作者形成多重的平等的对话关系。如果说陀...(展开全部)

《THE MASTER》是Colm Toibin以 Henry James為研究對象完成的小說。 來自紐約愛爾蘭移民家庭的Henry James，在歐洲創作出（The Wings of the Dove）、〈The Ambassadors〉等膾炙人口的經典作品，不過他一生未婚與同志傳言的消息也讓這位作家增添幾分神秘，Colm Toibin蒐集了許多Henry James的資料與訪談家人與朋友，試圖以文字描繪與剖析這位文壇大師的內心世界。 本書在入選本年英國 Man Booker prize for fiction候選名單之後，曾獲布克獎提名，也獲得2004年紐約時報年度好書的榮譽。

《THE MASTER》是Colm Toibin以 Henry James為研究對象完成的小說。 來自紐約愛爾蘭移民家庭的Henry James，在歐洲創作出（The Wings of the Dove）、〈The Ambassadors〉等膾炙人口的經典作品，不過他一生未婚與同志傳言的消息也讓這位作家增添幾分神秘，Colm Toibin蒐集了許多Henry James的資料與訪談家人與朋友，試圖以文字描繪與剖析這位文壇大師的內心世界。 本書在入選本年英國 Man Booker prize for fiction候選名單之後，曾獲布克獎提名，也獲得2004年紐約時報年度好書的榮譽。

【作者】阿方索·马丁内斯·阿里亚斯（Alfonso Martinez Arias） 发育生物学家，西班牙庞培法布拉大学教授。曾任英国剑桥大学遗传学系教授十余年，为《自然》《科学》《细胞科学杂志》等期刊定期审稿。因其对英国发育生物学的贡献，于2012年获得了英国发育生物学协会颁发的沃丁顿奖章。 【译者】祝锦杰 北京大学医学学士，香港浸会大学翻译与双语交流专业硕士。《环球科学》《好奇号》译者，已出版译著有《哥德尔传》《神秘的量子生命》《人人都该懂的遗传学》《人人都该懂的克隆技术》等。