Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Over the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama. His body of work includes "The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment" and "Collected Stories," and with each succeeding work his audiences have grown. It is no surprise that his newest work is his most criti...(展开全部)

达德利·安德鲁：美国当代著名电影学者，曾任美国爱荷华大学电影学教授，现为美国耶鲁大学电影与比较文学教授。他的理论专著《电影理论概念》、《主要电影理论》，已经成为当代电影理论经典。他曾在1998年提出“宏大电影理论”概念，促进了倡导“美国电影理论革命”的大卫•波德威尔和诺尔•卡罗尔等创立电影“认知科学”理论。他反对法国学派的宏大理论，特别是在美国曾经产生重大影响的电影精神分析学理论和意识形态分析，以及麦茨的符号学、索绪尔的语言学。时至今日，安德鲁仍坚持以影片本身为基础和目标的经验性研究方向。

Andre Bazin's impact on film art is widely considered to be greater than that of many directors, actors, and producers. He is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit. Updating the paperback edition of 1977, Dudley Andrew has written a completely new introduction and provided an additional essay by Jean-Charles Tacc...(展开全部)

Picking up where Berton Roueche's "The Medical Detectives" left off, "The Deadly Dinner Party" presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, M.D., shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers. In these stories a not...(展开全部)

Picking up where Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives left off, "The Deadly Dinner Party" presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers. In these stories, a ...(展开全部)

Join Jonathan Silvertown for a multicourse meal of evolutionary gastronomy, a tantalizing tour of human taste that helps us to understand the origins of our diets and the foods that have been central to them for millennia—from spices to spirits. A delectable concoction of coevolution and cookery, Dinner with Darwin reveals that our shopping lists don’t just contain the ingredie...(展开全部)

乔纳森·西尔弗顿，英国爱丁堡大学进化生态学教授，著有多本生态学与进化相关的科普图书，包括《种子的故事》《为什么不是200岁》。

Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity-passionate, risk-taking, and convention-breaking. In November 1989, just a year before his death, Bernstein ...(展开全部)

André Kertész is one of the figures who shaped modern photography. From the First World War onwards, his independent spirit led him to practise an art based on spontaneity and sincerity, seeking out the chance moments that ‘capture the true nature of things.’ Tender, nostalgic, modest, he forged a new path for photography, a kind of poetic realism that was neither forced nor sh...(展开全部)

"A European Gone Girl ." -- The Wall Street Journal An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over the course of one meal. It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of foo...(展开全部)