From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing new insights to studies of me...(展开全部)

作者简介： 西德尼·吕美特（Sidney Lumet，1924—2011），好莱坞殿堂级导演，逾60年创作生涯横跨舞台剧、电视、电影领域，其中共拍摄电影作品45部，处女作《十二怒汉》便斩获柏林电影节金熊奖，其他代表作有《东方快车谋杀案》《长夜漫漫路迢迢》《热天午后》《电视台风云》等，共获50余项奥斯卡提名。2005 年，获颁奥斯卡终身成就奖。曾七次被美国导演工会（DGA）提名为最佳导演，并获得终身荣誉会员资格，及 DGA 最负盛名的奖项 D.W. 格里菲斯奖。1993年，获得美国国家艺术俱乐部（National Arts Club）颁发的终身成就奖。纽约现代艺术博物馆、美国运动影像博物馆、伦敦英国学院和巴黎的法国博物馆都曾为其举办过电影回顾展。 译者简介： 张文思，电影书籍译者，译有《生活本身：罗杰·伊伯特自传》《电影行话手册》《功夫熊猫艺术设定集》...(展开全部)

作者简介： 西德尼·吕美特（Sidney Lumet，1924—2011），好莱坞殿堂级导演，逾60年创作生涯横跨舞台剧、电视、电影领域，其中共拍摄电影作品45部，处女作《十二怒汉》便斩获柏林电影节金熊奖，其他代表作有《东方快车谋杀案》《长夜漫漫路迢迢》《热天午后》《电视台风云》等，共获50余项奥斯卡提名。2005 年，获颁奥斯卡终身成就奖。曾七次被美国导演工会（DGA）提名为最佳导演，并获得终身荣誉会员资格，及 DGA 最负盛名的奖项 D.W. 格里菲斯奖。1993年，获得美国国家艺术俱乐部（National Arts Club）颁发的终身成就奖。纽约现代艺术博物馆、美国运动影像博物馆、伦敦英国学院和巴黎的法国博物馆都曾为其举办过电影回顾展。 译者简介： 张文思，电影书籍译者，译有《生活本身：罗杰·伊伯特自传》《电影行话手册》《功夫熊猫艺术设定集》...(展开全部)

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What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan’s modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevailing scholarly focus on Taiwan after 1987, Becoming Taiwanese examines the important first era in the history of Taiwanese identity construction during the early twentieth century, in the place that served as the crucible for the for...(展开全部)

爱尔兰知名作家大卫•迪克森（David Dickson）是爱尔兰都柏林三一学院现代史教授。 译者于国宽、巩咏梅，1987年夫妻二人毕业于北京第二外国语学院，英语专业。从事口译、笔译工作近二十年。译作包括《智慧的母亲》《母亲的得释之路》配套光碟字幕、《智慧的父亲》《修复你的心》《施展女人魅力》

In the manifesto The City in the City - Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. In contrast to the reconstruction of the European city that was popular at the time, they developed the figure of a polycentric urban landscape. However, t...(展开全部)

From a dazzling young palaeontologist and literary talent comes the Earth as we've never seen it before What would it be like to experience the ancient landscapes of the past as we experience the reality of nature today? To actually visit the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among their spectacular flora and fauna, to witness their continental shifts? In Otherlands, the m...(展开全部)

"What kind of person do I want my child to be?" There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, ...(展开全部)

Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven "dead" cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city-today's Delhi. Underlying his quest is th...(展开全部)