Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics. In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on "The...(展开全部)

Dawn and Frank wake up one wet morning in the flat above their pub, the Old Spring. Today they have to meet the brewery representative, creepy Tim Green, and track down an error in their books - or face the consequences. Dawn has something else on her mind, too: the anniversary of an old tragedy for which she has always felt responsible. Frank has a problem of his own - a secr...(展开全部)

理查德·弗朗西斯(1945— )，英国作家，巴斯泉大学（Bath Spa University）写作教授、荣誉研究员，作品有小说《黑湖消失》《操剑人》《庞大的侏儒》《低语的画廊》《天鹅之歌》《失物之地》《愿景山》等，文论《先验乌托邦》《富庶之地》等，撰写电视脚本多部。

这是一本伟大电影的指南，为银幕增光添彩！ 《电影书》（The Movie Book）将推出全新版本，这是一本包罗万象的指南，反映了电影的历史，从好莱坞黑白电影的黄金时代到国际艺术之家和当代杰作。这本关于电影的奇幻书是100部地震片的详细指南，为每个人提供了探索和喜爱的东西。 所以，准备好爆米花，坐下来，我们将带您踏上一段电影般的时光之旅，在本书中： -介绍了100多部有史以来伟大的电影及其背后的想法、主题和情节 -以电影中的标志性引用和评论家的引用为特色 -电影剧照和海报使电影栩栩如生。 -发人深省的图形探索了一些特色电影背后的中心思想和叙事。 -按时间顺序组织，引导读者轻松了解电影历史 《电影书》充满了华丽的剧照、精辟的语录和琐事细节，为您带来了对自己喜爱的电影的新见解，并向您介绍了世界各地鲜为人知的名著。 从20世纪早期的重要幻想家，到60年代和...(展开全部)

艾温·威·蒂尔（1899-1980），美国著名博物学家，摄影家、自然文学作家，生于伊利诺州，曾任纽约昆虫协会、布鲁克林昆虫协会主席、梭罗协会主席，美国皇家摄影协会会员。他配有自己拍摄的照片的自然图书以准确的科学信息和诗意的表达方式而著称，获得包括普利策奖和约翰·伯勒斯勋章在内的多个奖项。

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow. Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to Engl...(展开全部)

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publ...(展开全部)

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow. Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to Engl...(展开全部)