Remembered primarily as an eccentric and deluded billionaire, Howard Hughes was once America's golden boy, a celebrated aviator and Hollywood legend who romanced hundreds of beautiful women. The scope of his life made him one of the most influential figures in America. Where previous biographies have concentrated on Hughes's business empire, Howard Hughes: The Untold Story unve...(展开全部)

唐纳德·L.巴特利特（1936—），美国调查记者和作家；詹姆斯·斯蒂尔（1943—），美国调查记者和作家。 两人合作四十多年，创纪录地获得过两次普利策国内新闻报道奖，两次国家杂志奖，两次奥威尔奖（英国最重要的政治新闻和写作奖）和六次乔治·波尔克新闻工作者奖。他们1991年的《美国：哪儿出了问题？》被纽约大学新闻系评为20世纪100篇最佳新闻作品第51位。 他们的写作主题包括犯罪、住房、核废料、税收漏洞、中产阶级生活水平下降、大笔资金在政治中的作用、油价、移民和医疗保健等等，当然，还有霍华德·休斯。作为职业调查记者，他们以团队合作闻名，“注意记录精神状态”，“一贯准确无误”，“消息来源的可复制性”，同时有能力将自己的工作与普通人的生活联系起来。两人经常作为新闻技术和经验的典范出现在新闻调查教科书里，2007年唐纳德·雷诺国家商业新闻中心以他们的名义设立...(展开全部)

The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of...(展开全部)

Howard S. Becker is a name to conjure with on two continents —in the United States and in France. He has enjoyed renown in France for his work in sociology, which in the United States goes back more than fifty years to pathbreaking studies of deviance, professions, sociology of the arts, and a steady stream of books and articles on method. Becker, who lives part of the year in ...(展开全部)

Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing, intriguing, and controversial figures of the twentieth century. He was the billionaire head of a giant corporation, a genius inventor, an ace pilot, a matinee-idol-handsome playboy, a major movie maker who bedded a long list of Hollywood glamour queens, a sexual sultan with a harem of teenage consorts, a political insider with intimate...(展开全部)

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Banned in Vietnam until 1986, Dumb Luck--by the controversial and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung--is a bitter satire of the rage for modernization in Vietnam during the late colonial era. First published in Hanoi during 1936, it follows the absurd and unexpected rise within colonial society of a street-smart vagabond named Red-haired Xuan. As it charts Xuan's fant...(展开全部)

Présentation de l'éditeur Sous ce titre, ou ce monogramme, transparaît une nouvelle particulièrement énigmatique de Balzac, dont Georges Bataille, déjà avait signalé l'importance Sarrasine. Texte qui se trouve ici découpé en " lexies ", stratifié comme une partition inscrite sur plusieurs registres, radiographié, " écouté " au sens freudien de ce mot. Méthode de lecture qui amè...(展开全部)

Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine." Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devote...(展开全部)