Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and "Life Studies and For the Union Dead "stand as among his most important volumes. In "Life Studies," which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The titl...(展开全部)

Do killers, artists, and terrorists need one another? In "Crimes of Art and Terror," Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe explore the disturbing adjacency of literary creativity to violence and even political terror. Lentricchia and McAuliffe begin by anchoring their penetrating discussions in the events of 9/11 and the scandal provoked by composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's refer...(展开全部)

Do killers, artists, and terrorists need one another? In "Crimes of Art and Terror," Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe explore the disturbing adjacency of literary creativity to violence and even political terror. Lentricchia and McAuliffe begin by anchoring their penetrating discussions in the events of 9/11 and the scandal provoked by composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's refer...(展开全部)

作者乌戈‧帕加罗，意大利都灵大学法学院教授。出版著作十部，发表多篇论文，主要研究领域为人工智能与法律、网络理论、机器人学和信息技术法（特别是数据保护法和版权）。曾任欧洲区域规划指导小组（European RPAS Steering Group）成员（2011—2012）、欧洲委员会发起的Onlife倡议专家组成员（2012—2013）、由研究和技术发展第七框架项目资助的CAPER项目伦理委员会委员（2013—2014），以及地平线2020机器人项目方案评估专家（2015）。还担任设在英国伦敦的跨国法律研究中心研究员、意大利法律信息学协会副主席、都灵理工大学互联网与社会中心研究员。

J.K. 罗琳是“哈利·波特”系列小说的作者，该系列出版于 1997—2007 年间，深受读者喜爱。包括她为慈善组织撰写的三部衍生作品在内，“哈利·波特”系列销量已逾 500,000,000 册，被翻译成 80 种语言，并被改编成八部好莱坞大片。 《神奇动物在哪里》原本是 J.K. 罗琳为资助“喜剧救济”基金会而撰写的霍格沃茨“教科书”，后来成为华纳兄弟公司拍摄的全新原创系列电影的灵感来源。该系列电影共有五部，其中第一部于 2016 年上映，第二部《神奇动物 ：格林德沃之罪》于 2018 年 11 月上映。 J.K. 罗琳与编剧杰克·索恩、导演约翰·蒂法尼合作的舞台剧《哈利·波特与被诅咒的孩子》分别于 2016年在伦敦西区、2018 年在百老汇上演，并将于 2019 年进行世界巡演。 J.K. 罗琳还以罗伯特·加尔布雷思为笔名撰写了“科莫兰·斯特莱克...(展开全部)

It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to pro...(展开全部)

The teacher probes the Western problems of conformity and loss of personal values while offering a fresh approach to self-understanding and the meaning of personal freedom and mature love.

This classic study probes the geometric interrelationships between art and life in discussions that range from Plato, Pythagoras, and Archimedes to modern architecture and art. Other topics include the Golden Section, geometrical shapes on the plane, geometrical shapes in space, crystal lattices, and many other fascinating subjects. Includes 80 plates and 64 figures.

In the grand tradition of Paul Kennedy s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers comes this provocative history of world democracy, which begins with the ancient Myceans and ends in our fractious present. Overturning long-cherished notions, John Keane poses challenging questions: Did democracy actually begin in ancient Greece or earlier in Mesopotamia? Do the American and British...(展开全部)

The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: how did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling...(展开全部)