An exuberantly acclaimed collection -- twenty-two stories that combine hilarity and an escalating disquiet as they expand our ideas of the pleasures fiction can afford.

An exuberantly acclaimed collection -- twenty-two stories that combine hilarity and an escalating disquiet as they expand our ideas of the pleasures fiction can afford.

David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship wit...(展开全部)

David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at their most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore poignantly and hilarious...(展开全部)

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial and stimulating figures in contemporary philosophy and cultural criticism. Whether embraced or reviled for his reflections on 'hyperreality', he never fails to evoke strong reactions. Yet, all too often, discussion of Baudrillard's ideas takes place at one remove, with much imputed to him. It is sometimes claimed that his writin...(展开全部)

In this book Francesca Alfano Miglietti offers a collection of everything that has created scandal, enthusiasm, excitement and a sense of participation in fashion, and examines the construction and de-construction of our bodies and our identities, beginning with what we wear and the relationship our clothes have with all that is contemporary. In 44 interviews, previously publis...(展开全部)

A bestselling classic (more than 200,000 copies sold in hardcover and paperback) that delves into the minds of some of the world's most successful traders.

A bestselling classic (more than 200,000 copies sold in hardcover and paperback) that delves into the minds of some of the world's most successful traders.

要看流行就看倫敦！倫敦已經成了最多具有藝術血統、專研設計的流行時尚工作者的天堂！因為倫敦有最前衛最時尚的設計藝術學院，這些人踏出校門成立自創品牌的第一步，多是手工自製出最酷炫的流行品，然後來到時尚人不可不逛的Spitalfield Market和Portobello Market跳蚤市場設攤，在這裡和追求第一手流行的客人直接接觸，優異的設計師甚至很快被發現進而成立跨國際的品牌專門店，這裡可以說是培養發掘新手設計師的溫床！本書就踏寶地尋訪了這樣背景的設計藝術工作者，他們有的投身服飾配件的設計製作，有的扛起照相機賣起個性攝影，也有人自製玩偶豐富人們的生活，十六位風格殊異但同樣年輕熱血的自由工作者們，加入了倫敦的流行世界，在這裡他們除了分享他們的設計心得及過程外，也實地透露了他們的有趣作品和工作室實錄，這些第一手的報導和第一手的圖片，讓讀者一起分享最in ...(展开全部)