Published to wide acclaim in 2001, Howard Sounes’s Down the Highway broke news about Dylan’s fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard as the most comprehensive and riveting biography on Bob Dylan. Now, substantially revised and updated for Dylan’s seventieth birthday, this edition continues to document the iconic songwriter’s life through new interviews and reporti...(展开全部)

This new edition of Howard Sounes' classic and definitive biography of Bob Dylan now offers a new chapter that brings Dylan's story fully up to date for his seventieth birthday. First published to international critical acclaim in 2001, it gives a complete picture of the man as well as of the artist and performer. Based on in-depth original research,including hundreds of inter...(展开全部)

A biography of Bob Dylan that gives a picture of the man as well as of the artist and performer. It takes the reader on a journey from Dylan's childhood in a Minnesota mining town to the status he enjoys as the leading poet-troubadour of popular song, and one of the most iconic figures of contemporary culture.

Tale of a maverick American commander, driven insane by stress and the Russian invasion of Hungary in '56, who deceives his men about orders, and sends nuclear bombers to Moscow. The source for Dr. Strangelove.

彼得·乔治 Peter George，英国著名作家，作为英国皇家空军中尉参加过第二次世界大战，战后直到1961年退伍。他最著名的小说《奇爱博士》直接启发了世界级导演斯坦利·库布里克拍摄出了20世纪最经典的黑色喜剧片，成功讽刺了美苏冷战时期国际政局的荒谬和不安氛围。

Tale of a maverick American commander, driven insane by stress and the Russian invasion of Hungary in '56, who deceives his men about orders, and sends nuclear bombers to Moscow. The source for Dr. Strangelove.

彼得·乔治 Peter George，英国著名作家，作为英国皇家空军中尉参加过第二次世界大战，战后直到1961年退伍。他最著名的小说《奇爱博士》直接启发了世界级导演斯坦利·库布里克拍摄出了20世纪最经典的黑色喜剧片，成功讽刺了美苏冷战时期国际政局的荒谬和不安氛围。

There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. In "The Forever War", award-winning "New York Times" correspondent Dexter Filkins does not analyse how these wars happened and why, or where they have succeeded or failed; instead, he captures with searing immediacy, the human experience - and tr...(展开全部)

"The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime" is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's "Lost Highway", based on the premises of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lynch's unique universe of the 'ridiculous sublime' is interpreted as a simultaneous playful staging and traversing of the fundamental ideological fantasies that sustain our late capitalist society. A master of reversals, Zi...(展开全部)

Blinded by a concept 11:06 AM PDT, August 31, 2006 The failure of Israel to subdue Hezbollah demonstrates the many weaknesses of the war-on-terror concept. One of those weaknesses is that even if the targets are terrorists, the victims are often innocent civilians, and their suffering reinforces the terrorist cause. In response to Hezbollah's attacks, Israel was justified in at...(展开全部)