This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature. To create this truly original work, Irena Grudzinska Gross draws from poems, essays, letters, interviews, speeches, lectures, and her own person...(展开全部)

This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature. To create this truly original work, Irena Grudzinska Gross draws from poems, essays, letters, interviews, speeches, lectures, and her own person...(展开全部)

Joseph Beuys is one of the most important and controversial German artists of the late twentieth century, an artist whose persona and art is so tightly interwoven with Germany’s fascist past—Beuys was, after all, a former soldier in the Third Reich—that he has been a problematic figure for postwar and post-reunification Germany. In illuminating the centrality of trauma and the ...(展开全部)

In Joseph Conrad: A Biography, acclaimed writer Jeffrey Meyers presents the definitive account of the life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, and many other landmarks in modern literature. Meyers' biography, published for the first time in paperback by Cooper Square Press, is the first biography of the author in many years. Joseph Co...(展开全部)

Joseph Beuys is one of the most important and controversial German artists of the late twentieth century, an artist whose persona and art is so tightly interwoven with Germany’s fascist past—Beuys was, after all, a former soldier in the Third Reich—that he has been a problematic figure for postwar and post-reunification Germany. In illuminating the centrality of trauma and the ...(展开全部)

Pan Am, Gimbel's, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland--all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock economic principle better than Joseph A. Schumpeter. "Creative destruction," he ...(展开全部)

Listen to a short interview with Thomas McCraw/Host: Chris Gondek/Producer: Heron & Crane. Pan Am, Gimbel's, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland - all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this...(展开全部)

【美】约瑟夫·坎贝尔  美国知名作家，影响世界的神话学大师 他创造了一系列影响力较强的神话学巨作，跨越人类学、生物学、文学、哲学、心理学、宗教学、艺术史等领域，包括《千面英雄》《英雄之旅》《神话的力量》《千面女神》以及《众神的面具》系列等。  西方流行文化的一代宗师 他是影响披头士乐队、猫王、迈克尔·杰克逊、乔治·卢卡斯、斯皮尔伯格、J.K.罗琳和乔布斯的精神导师。他的作品被好莱坞列为必读书目，幻化出各种具有戏剧性、娱乐性和心理真实性的故事，是《星球大战》《黑客帝国》《蝙蝠侠》等电影的灵感之源。  极具启发性的心灵导师、演说家 访谈节目《神话的力量》在全美范围内开播后，立即震惊了百万听众，节目同名图书在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上盘踞长达一年之久，他的著作一一再版，他的演讲震撼无数心灵。