"Old Masters (1985)" is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher...(展开全部)

"Old Masters (1985)" is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher...(展开全部)

When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedag...(展开全部)

Dr. Brian Weiss is a highly respected psychiatrist from the mainstream of the medical establishment. Catherine is one of his most difficult cases, a twenty-seven year old woman racked by phobias and anxieties. In the course of Catherine's treatment, Dr. Weiss makes a startling discovery. Under hypnosis, she recollects, in vivid detail, events from past lives ranging from the pr...(展开全部)

When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedag...(展开全部)

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successf...(展开全部)

徐小虎(Joan Stanley-Baker)，英国牛津大学东方研究所博士。 生于南京，受中德父母影响，从小接受东西方文化多元洗礼，小学和初中学业辗转受教于罗马、重庆和上海。大学进入以教育家杜威（John Dewey）所提倡的“从做中学”（learning by doing）而以人文教育与艺文创意知名的美国班宁顿学院（Bennington College, Vermont），开启了对视觉与表演艺术的热爱与直接参与性；又于普林斯顿大学进修中国艺术史，在研究方法学上条理严谨且分析敏锐的训练，为往后四十多年书画断代与艺术评论奠定坚实的基础。五十岁始前往英国牛津大学攻读硕士、博士学位。 1967—1971年，以笔名Jennifer S Byrd每周为《日本时报》（The Japan Times）撰写艺术评论专栏，其后持续在国际与台湾报章杂志上发表有关艺术、建...(展开全部)