Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; weather diaries trawled by climate scientists; libraries visited by historians. These are the vital collections, assem...(展开全部)

Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; case histories published in medical journals; weather diaries and data silos trawled by climate scientists; libraries ...(展开全部)

Absorbing Roman poet Ovid's tales of transformation in "Metamorphoses "and adding his own dash of art-historical figuration and contemporary pop culture, Mark Ryden broaches new terrain with "The Tree Show," Arcadian Gothic" might hint at the nature of this new work, and fans of Ryden will find familiar preoccupations in these new paintings, drawings and sculptures--made since ...(展开全部)

欧阳应霁 当被问到为什么要选择创作的路，他回答说，因为有趣。当被问到是什么叫他一直兴高采烈地走下去，他回答说：就是好玩。 他一路放肆贪玩，却又专一迷恋文字和图像之间的微妙暖昧，不小心也很自然地跨界破例―― 相信旅行，钟情漫画，关注设计，沉迷杂志，狂恋音乐，爱恨美食…… 自香港理工大学设计系获取荣誉学士及哲学硕士以来，长期对现代家居生活及建筑设计潮流观察研究，大量撰写相关评论推介文章，发表于大陆、港、台报章杂志。出版有生活写作系列《一日一日》、《寻常放荡》、《两个人住》、《回家真好》、《设计私生活》及《半饱》。文字写作以外同时热衷漫画创作，出版有《我的天》、《爱到死》、《小明》、《三七廿一》、《我的天使》等漫画系列及专辑。 停不了――矢志做个贪心的，快活的，认真的跨媒体导游。

show/off #2 magazine Show/Off #2 is a unique magazine about the Fashion Department, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen. It features highlights from the Fashion Department: the end of year collections of the Master students, works by the Bachelor Year students, information about various projects and workshops... Show/Off #2 is a collector’s item made with ...(展开全部)

Some 40 nationalities participate in the courses of the Fashion Department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, under the watchful leadership of Walter van Beirendonck. This magazine reflects the wide and exciting array of fashion that is created by such a diverse collection of participants. Full-page, colour photographs document recent fashion collections produced by th...(展开全部)

Charles Darwin’s masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly SignatureReviewed by Jonah LehrerRichard Dawkins begins The Greatest Show on Earth with a short history of his writing career. He explains that all of his previous books have naïvely assumed the fact of evolution, which meant that he never got around to laying out the evidence that it [evolution] is true. This shouldn't be too surprising: science is an ed...(展开全部)