Cloud Nine is an inventive, surrealistic and entertaining look at sexual repression and sexual role conditioning. The first act takes place in Victorian Africa, suggeting the parallel between colonial and sexual repression. Clive, the whtie man, imposes his ideals on his family and the natives. Betty, his wife, is played by a man because she wants to be what men want her to be;...(展开全部)

Cloud Nine is an inventive, surrealistic and entertaining look at sexual repression and sexual role conditioning. The first act takes place in Victorian Africa, suggeting the parallel between colonial and sexual repression. Clive, the whtie man, imposes his ideals on his family and the natives. Betty, his wife, is played by a man because she wants to be what men want her to be;...(展开全部)

Amadeus is the most talked about play in many years. In England it won both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award for the best play of the year.aAmadeus is the story of Salieri's war against God for making him mediocre, for implanting in him a desire to serve as a composer and then making his service seem shameful in his own ears. The play is centrally ...(展开全部)

Amadeus is the most talked about play in many years. In England it won both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award for the best play of the year.aAmadeus is the story of Salieri's war against God for making him mediocre, for implanting in him a desire to serve as a composer and then making his service seem shameful in his own ears. The play is centrally ...(展开全部)

From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the World has ever seen. Roy Jenkins faithfully presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. In depth analysis and brilliant historical research make this a magnificent one-vo...(展开全部)

罗伊·詹金斯（1920—2003），英国政治家、传记作家，1948年以工党议员的身份进入下议院，先后任职航空大臣、内政大臣及财政大臣，1970年成为工党副领袖，1977至1981年出任欧洲共同体（今欧盟）委员会主席，1987年成为牛津大学名誉校长，以黑尔海德的詹金斯男爵身份进入上议院。此外，他还担任过英国皇家文学学会的主席一职。1941年他在父亲的引见下第一次见到丘吉尔，1948年开始与丘吉尔在下议院共事16年。 詹金斯一生写了21部作品，主要有《丘吉尔传》《阿斯奎斯传》《鲍德温传》《格莱斯顿传》《大臣》《杜鲁门传》《罗斯福传》等。 其中《丘吉尔传》获2001年英国图书奖传记奖、《格莱斯顿》获1995年惠特布莱德传记奖。 译者简介： 徐海幈，先后在《中国新闻周刊》《三联生活周刊》《时代人物周报》等杂志工作。 从2011年开始，以自由译者的身份开始从事...(展开全部)

A Cloud A Day is a beautifully illustrated book containing 365 skies selected by the Cloud Appreciation Society. There are photographs by sky enthusiasts around the world, satellite images and photographs of clouds in space, as well as skies depicted by great artists over the centuries.

Yes, Minister, and the equally successful sequel Yes, Prime Minister captured a niche in the political consciousness of the nation. First broadcast thirty years ago, the original writers of these classic series have reunited to create a bang up to date Yes, Prime Minister for the stage. Spin, blackberries, sexed-up dossiers, sleaze, global warming and a country on the brink of ...(展开全部)

罗伊·詹金斯（1920—2003），英国政治家、传记作家，1948年以工党议员的身份进入下议院，先后任职航空大臣、内政大臣及财政大臣，1970年成为工党副领袖，1977至1981年出任欧洲共同体（今欧盟）委员会主席，1987年成为牛津大学名誉校长，以黑尔海德的詹金斯男爵身份进入上议院。此外，他还担任过英国皇家文学学会的主席一职。1941年他在父亲的引见下第一次见到丘吉尔，1948年开始与丘吉尔在下议院共事16年。 詹金斯一生写了21部作品，主要有《丘吉尔传》《阿斯奎斯传》《鲍德温传》《格莱斯顿传》《大臣》《杜鲁门传》《罗斯福传》等。 其中《丘吉尔传》获2001年英国图书奖传记奖、《格莱斯顿》获1995年惠特布莱德传记奖。 译者简介： 徐海幈，先后在《中国新闻周刊》《三联生活周刊》《时代人物周报》等杂志工作。 从2011年开始，以自由译者的身份开始从事...(展开全部)

In Churchill, Roy Jenkins provides a comprehensive portrait of Winston Churchill from his childhood to the critical World War II period and beyond in a single, definitive volume. Roy Jenkins combines unparalleled command of British political history and his own high level government experience in a narrative account of Churchill's astounding career that is unmatched in its shre...(展开全部)