安德鲁·路米斯，美国著名插画家、作家、美术教育家。他曾就读于美国艺术学生联盟。19岁时师从乔治·伯里曼学习绘画，随后发展并延伸了乔治.伯里曼的素描绘画体系，以独特的视角撰写了多本简单易懂的经典绘画教程，对当代素描教育产生了巨大影响。路米斯认为：好素描必须具有说服力和感染力。因此他从绘画原理方面训练读者，使之创造出“真实的”艺术作品。各绘画技法环节，他都主张作品应尽可能源于观察、实景写生和模特动态。正是由于其独特、着实有效的艺术理念，在他去世后很长一段时间，其绘画风格仍继续影响着一大批艺术家。

Bringing together ground-breaking essays from across the disciplinary spectrum, Creative Industries chronicles how culture is produced, packaged, and circulated in a technology-enabled and globalized world. This is the first systematic analysis of the challenge of the creative industries in a world where innovation and risk are requirements for both economic and cultural enterp...(展开全部)

In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienation and loss.

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a...(展开全部)

'The best prose writer in English' - Gore Vidal. Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, "A Single Man" is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasure...(展开全部)

'The best prose writer in English' - Gore Vidal. Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, "A Single Man" is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasure...(展开全部)

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a...(展开全部)

本书可以帮你掌握真正的 Pythonic 编程方式，令你能够完全发挥出 Python 语言的强大功能，并写出健壮而高效的代码。Scott Meyers 在畅销书《Effective C++》中开创了一种以使用场景为主导的精练教学方式，本书作者 Brett Slatkin 就以这种方式汇聚了 90 条实践原则、开发技巧和便捷方案，并以实用的代码范例来解释它们。 Slatkin 根据自己在 Google 公司多年开发 Python 基础架构所积累的经验，揭示 Python 语言中一些鲜为人知的微妙特性，并给出了能够改善代码功能及运行效率的习惯用法。通过本书，你能够了解到解决关键编程任务所用的奇妙方式，并学会编写易于理解、便于维护且利于改进的代码。