FICTION The young man lowered his voice, but sounded all the more intense for doing so. "Reverend," he said solemnly, "if God didn't do it, then it doesn't make any logical sense." "Oh, it makes perfect sense," the reverend replied. "It makes perfect, horrible sense." * * * The Reverend Thaddeus Dean has just retired as pastor of a small church at the foot of the Cascade Mounta...(展开全部)

功成名就的帕蒂·史密斯还分别于2002年和2008年在安迪·沃霍尔美术馆和巴黎的卡地亚当代艺术基金会举行了个人艺术展。安迪·沃霍尔美术馆的“陌生信使”(Strange Messenger)艺术展包括她30年来创作的50幅绘画、拼贴画，以及诗作原稿、照片、声音装置、影像和电影。策展人约翰·史密斯认为帕蒂·史密斯与安迪·沃霍尔一样，并不是能够轻易归类的艺术家，“她在音乐、视觉艺术和语言之间自在游弋，她的作品和生涯模糊了艺术和音乐的传统界限。” 帕蒂自陈自8岁她得到一本威廉·布莱克的诗作和绘画集《天真之歌》起就开始描绘自己的故事，“刚满20岁时，我画了很多缠绕着字句的画。后来我开始把字句和电吉他混在一起。语言、图像和表演，全都出自同一个目的——交流的欲望。” 巴黎的艺术展名为“兰德250”，名字缘于她使用的宝丽来相机，展览上推出的大量黑白摄影作品都出自这台...(展开全部)

The first biography of the musician Elliott Smith, whose heartbreaking songs were rendered all the more haunting by his tragic death Best for his Oscar-nominated song "Miss Misery" from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, Elliott Smith was catapulted to the status of indie rock star after performing at the 1997 Academy Awards. Some of his albums, XO and Either/Or among t...(展开全部)

本杰明·格雷厄姆（1894—1976），华尔街的传奇人物，被称为“现代证券之父”，著有《证券分析》和《聪明的投资者》。他和戴维·多德合著作的《证券分析》迄今已出了第五版，有些学者将它奉为“华尔街圣经”。他的投资者哲学——基本分析法和“风险缓冲带”为沃伦·巴菲特、马里奥·加贝利、约翰·鲍戈尔等一大批证券投资者专家所推崇。为了表彰他在证券分析领域的卓越建树，美国哥伦比亚大学商学院已设立了永久的“格雷厄姆/多德教授讲座”。

本杰明·格雷厄姆（1894—1976），华尔街的传奇人物，被称为“现代证券之父”，著有《证券分析》和《聪明的投资者》。他和戴维·多德合著作的《证券分析》迄今已出了第五版，有些学者将它奉为“华尔街圣经”。他的投资者哲学——基本分析法和“风险缓冲带”为沃伦·巴菲特、马里奥·加贝利、约翰·鲍戈尔等一大批证券投资者专家所推崇。为了表彰他在证券分析领域的卓越建树，美国哥伦比亚大学商学院已设立了永久的“格雷厄姆/多德教授讲座”。

Before she was a world-renowned singer/songwriter and bestowed with the title "The Godmother of Punk," Patti Smith was a struggling poet posing for the lens of photographer Judy Linn. In intimate portraits of an artist as a young woman, Linn captures Smith at her most vulnerable, as a raw performer on the verge of becoming an iconic artist. Linn's photographs offer a fascinatin...(展开全部)

This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith's life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has recently come to light, this full-scale biography of Adam Smith examines the personality, career, and social and intellectual circumstances of the Scottish moral...(展开全部)

A wry exchange between an IT-savvy donkey, a book-loving ape and a mouse forms this playful and lighthearted examination of print as a medium in the digital age. With a subversive and signature Lane Smith twist, this satisfying, perfectly executed picture book has something to say about the importance of reading to children and adults alike.

Well-known as a sculptor, Kiki Smith has also worked extensively as a printmaker--in fact her printed works and other editioned art, including books and multiples, are arguably as important as her sculpture. Smith emerged in the early 1980s as one of a generation of artists who returned to figurative imagery after a period in which American art had leaned to the abstract and co...(展开全部)