'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, seperately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within stories take us through the unlikely love-affairs of one Doll Sneerpiece, a...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·科米，1960年出生于纽约，1985年获得芝加哥大学法学博士学位，1987年进入美国司法部工作，2013年被奥巴马点名担任FBI局长，是FBI历史上第七任掌门人。在科米职业生涯的30多年里，他见证了5位美国总统的更替，并与3位总统直接共事，功绩包括铲除纽约黑手党，调查“9·11”恐怖袭击事件，追捕“基地”组织成员，调查“邮件门”“棱镜门”“通俄门”。2017年5月，科米遭到特朗普的无端辞退，一时间成为热门话题。

詹姆斯·科米，1960年出生于纽约，1985年获得芝加哥大学法学博士学位，1987年进入美国司法部工作，2013年被奥巴马点名担任FBI局长，是FBI历史上第七任掌门人。在科米职业生涯的30多年里，他见证了5位美国总统的更替，并与3位总统直接共事，功绩包括铲除纽约黑手党，调查“9·11”恐怖袭击事件，追捕“基地”组织成员，调查“邮件门”“棱镜门”“通俄门”。2017年5月，科米遭到特朗普的无端辞退，一时间成为热门话题。

詹姆斯·科米，1960年出生于纽约，1985年获得芝加哥大学法学博士学位，1987年进入美国司法部工作，2013年被奥巴马点名担任FBI局长，是FBI历史上第七任掌门人。在科米职业生涯的30多年里，他见证了5位美国总统的更替，并与3位总统直接共事，功绩包括铲除纽约黑手党，调查“9·11”恐怖袭击事件，追捕“基地”组织成员，调查“邮件门”“棱镜门”“通俄门”。2017年5月，科米遭到特朗普的无端辞退，一时间成为热门话题。

This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the discipline, Lynn Gamwell points out the...(展开全部)

This handbook provides the definitive guide to commissioning contemporary art. Every step and stage is revealed and demystified from the initial invitation to an artist to the financing of a project, from the drafting of contracts to the final siting and installation of works, from the care and preservation of commissioned pieces to their interpretation and publicity. Combining...(展开全部)

A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century's most profound writers and thinkers--now available for the first time in print. Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while provi...(展开全部)

In 1969, the world-renowned author Ayn Rand gave a series of informal lectures on the art of nonfiction to a select group of friends and associates. These edited transcripts take the listener step by step through the writing process, providing insightful observations and invaluable techniques along the way. Rand discusses the psychological aspects of writing and the different r...(展开全部)

Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it’s squatting in the Tate or New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show...(展开全部)