Power and its abuse, forced exile and migration are the themes of the painting of Adrian Ghenie (born 1977). Raised amid the propaganda of Ceausescu's Romania, Ghenie has already produced a powerful body of work in response to this inheritance of deluded and abusive dictatorship--work which in the span of just a few years has already won much attention and acclaim.

Power and its abuse, forced exile and migration are the themes of the painting of Adrian Ghenie (born 1977). Raised amid the propaganda of Ceausescu's Romania, Ghenie has already produced a powerful body of work in response to this inheritance of deluded and abusive dictatorship--work which in the span of just a few years has already won much attention and acclaim.

The international creation of typefaces after 1950 was decisively influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. His Univers typeface and the machine-readable font OCR-B, which was adopted as an ISO standard, are milestones, as is his type for the Paris airports, which set new standards for signage types and evolved into the Frutiger typeface. With his corporate types, ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Adrian Mole is a household name. THE SECRET DIARY has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is a modern classic. Now in Penguin for the first time, it is brought bang up to date for the 21st Century with an amazing new look, ready to make a whole new readership roar with laughter all over again. In THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE Aged 13 3/4 teenager Adrian writ...(展开全部)

英国著名作家。1946年出生于莱斯特，早年并未受过良好的教育，15岁便离开学校开始工作，也开始写作。写作了20年，依然默默无闻。 1980年，根据童年经历写成的《少年阿莫的秘密日记》公开出版，受到读者的热烈欢迎，获得媒体的连篇好评。作品迅速被改编成影视作品，成为影响英伦最著名的时代话题。此后，随着《少年阿莫的秘密日记Ⅱ》、《阿莫抓狂记》、《阿莫的卡布其诺年代》等“阿莫”系列作品的陆续出版，随着作品被翻译成越来越多的语言，她逐渐成为全球读者热爱、喜欢、敬重和痴迷的伟大作家。 作为成名作，本书为“阿莫系列”第一部，也是饱受全球读者热烈欢迎的畅销巨著。在青少年学生、教师与家长心中，它已成为“可以伴随人一生的开心杰作”。

The modest Thomas Mann boom, begun with the recent publication (by New Directions) of his early stories, continues with this fine new English translation of the author's last great novel, first published in 1948. A work written in old age and suffused with Mann's moral despair over his country's complacent embrace of Nazism, Doctor Faustus unrelentingly details the rise and fal...(展开全部)

The modest Thomas Mann boom, begun with the recent publication (by New Directions) of his early stories, continues with this fine new English translation of the author's last great novel, first published in 1948. A work written in old age and suffused with Mann's moral despair over his country's complacent embrace of Nazism, Doctor Faustus unrelentingly details the rise and fal...(展开全部)