Two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes to win millions of dollars and ends up nearly losing everything -- including his sanity. A Civil Action is the searing, compelling tale of a legal system gone awry ...(展开全部)

The legal thriller of the decade. --Cleveland Plain Dealer Now a Major Motion Picture! In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of the nation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes to win millions of dollars a...(展开全部)

How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media? Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an ‘acting at a distance,’ an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality of transmission. This book explores this crucial phenomenon thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the en...(展开全部)

格温·拉弗拉（1885-1957），达尔文的孙女，一个剑桥望族的成员。她的剑桥回忆录堪称一部非小说类的幽默小说，一部公认的文学经典。自1952年初版以来，被反复重印，从不曾脱版。英国大多数主流报刊对它评价极高，例如《泰晤士报—文学副刊》评论说：“《旧迹遗踪》是一本自始至终令人愉悦的读物，带有大量漫不经心的幽默和智慧，……雷维拉特夫人绝没有浪得达尔文的虚名。”

Pratt 学院院长，著有The Vision of Robert Flaherty:The Artist as Myth and Filmmaker,Nonfiction Film Theory and Criticism,Filmguide to "Triumph of the Will"及In the Dark:A Primer of the Movies

Film is arguably the dominant art form of the twentieth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Wood offers a wealth of insight into the nature of film, considering its role and impact on society as well as its future in the digital age. As Wood notes, film is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories ar...(展开全部)

For the past twenty-five years, cinema has been a vital terrain on which feminist debates about culture, representation, and identity have been fought. This anthology charts the history of those debates, bringing together the key, classic essays in feminist film theory. "Feminist Film Theory" maps the impact of major theoretical developments on this growing field-from structura...(展开全部)

Consolidating major figures and film movements into their decade of greatest influence or prestige, this "no-nonsense" book offers a generously illustrated, concise, and very readable history of fiction movies with an emphasis on American cinema. Eclectic in methodology and written in a plain English style that audiences can relate to, it examines the full scope of traditional ...(展开全部)

A classic returns. The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthi...(展开全部)

National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals—her friends—who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green. Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy...(展开全部)