Full of writing, reports, and recommendations, The Monocle Guide to Better living is original, informative, entertaining, and comprehensive. This is not a book about glitz but rather an upbeat survey of products and ideas built to treasure and last. Monocle is one of the most successful magazines to be developed in the past decade. Armed with an unmistakable sense of aesthetics...(展开全部)

Full of writing, reports, and recommendations, The Monocle Guide to Better living is original, informative, entertaining, and comprehensive. This is not a book about glitz but rather an upbeat survey of products and ideas built to treasure and last. Monocle is one of the most successful magazines to be developed in the past decade. Armed with an unmistakable sense of aesthetics...(展开全部)

Read Digital Minimalism and you'll never again mindlessly sacrifice your productivity to clickbait or lose 40 minutes of your evening to your Instagram feed. In this timely and enlightening book, Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives - digital minimalism. Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy pe...(展开全部)

Read Digital Minimalism and you'll never again mindlessly sacrifice your productivity to clickbait or lose 40 minutes of your evening to your Instagram feed. In this timely and enlightening book, Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives - digital minimalism. Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy pe...(展开全部)

The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. He can't decide how to refer to his subject, so instead he starts watching TV continuously, until one day he decides to renounce the most addictive of twentieth-century inventions. As he spe...(展开全部)

让-菲利普·图森（Jean-Philippe Toussaint，1957年出生），比利时法语小说家，法国“新小说”新一代的代表人物之一（图森自己称其作品为“新新小说”）。图森1957年出生于比利时，1972年起定居法国，他的小说均由法国著名的午夜出版社出版。 截至2005年图森已出版的小说包括有：《浴室》（1985年）、《先生》（1986年）、《照相机》（1989年）、《迟疑》（1998年）、《电视》（1998年）、《自画像（在国外）》（2000年）、《做爱》（2002年）和《逃跑》（获得2005年法国“美第奇图书奖”）、《齐达内的忧郁》（2006年）。此外他还导演电影《先生》（改编自同名小说，1990年）、《塞维利亚人》（改编自《照相机》，1993年）以及《溜冰场》（1998年）。《玛丽的真相》是让-菲利普·图森发表于2009年的新作，与《做爱》...(展开全部)

Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of capitalismAdam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life. Our Great Purpose is a short and illuminating guide to Smith's incomparable wisdom on how to live well, wri...(展开全部)

The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation. The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined by new and 'alternative' ways of producing, b...(展开全部)