Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rates are wielded as tools to win diplomatic allies, punish adversaries, and coerce those in between. Not so in the United States, however. America still too often reaches for the gun over the purse to advance its interests abroad. The result is a playing ield sharply tilting against the United State...(展开全部)

William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.

Logan Mountstuart's long life is both ordinary and extraordinary. A writer, a spy and later an art dealer, Logan mixes with the men and women who shaped the twentieth century. But he's also a son, a husband and a lover, and he makes the same mistakes we all do in his search for happiness. William Boyd's bestselling novel, a rich, intriguing and entertaining account of a life li...(展开全部)

Any Human Heart is William's Boyd's classic, bestselling novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in ...(展开全部)

'Superb, wonderful, enjoyable' Guardian 'Full of delights' The Times _____________________________ Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and Logan Mountstuart's - stretching across the twentieth century - is a rich tapestry of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in ...(展开全部)

William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.

In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and will continue to demand, massive quantities of resources. Like every other major power in mo...(展开全部)

Semiotics is the theory of signs, and reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that point to a destination, to smoke that warns of fire, to the symbols buried within art and literature. Semiotic theory can, however, appear mysterious and impenetrable. This introductory book decodes that mystery using visual examples instead of abstract theory. This new edition ...(展开全部)

符号学是关于标识、符号的理论。符号之间，存在着不可思议的差异性：从指明目的地的简单路标符号，到警示人们预防火灾的烟雾符号，再到暗含在艺术与文学中、有文学背景和象征意义的符号。阅读符号是我们日常生活非常重要的组成部分，然而符号学却常常被看作是一门神秘的科学。这本导论性质的书籍，采用了具体可见的实例而不是抽象的理论，为我们揭开符号学的神秘面纱。 本书一共罗列了75项符号学中关键性的概念，书中的每一部分都以一幅图像或符号开始，并配以一个问题，来带动我们表达出我们所看见的东西。翻过书页，我们便可以将自己的诠释与该符号背后所蕴含的理论进行比对。通过这样的方式，我们能够积极地调动自己创造性的思维。 不论是一口气将整本书读完，还是平时信手翻阅，你都可以从这本书中读到很多实用的例子，它们解释了在当下的文化中，意义是如何被制造呈现的。

经过30多年的准备和琢磨，斯拉法于1960年出版了《用商品生产商品：经济理论批判绪论》一书。斯拉法探究的问题是没有生产规模的变动或生产要素中的比例的变动的经济体系的特征，认为国民纯产品就是超过补偿生产资料所需要的产品的“剩余”，把生产看作是同样的商品既表现为生产资料、又表现为最终产品的一种“循环的过程”。这种研究方法正是复兴了古典学派的思想，所以，他时常被称为“新李嘉图主义者”。