Published before the outbreak of war in 1939, a warning to the complacent, British middle-class of the upheavals taking place on the Continent.

The discipline of landscape architecture encompasses many typologies, from domestic gardens and neighborhood playgrounds to urban desig ns and state parks. Most critical studies of the discipline tend to approach it from a historical or contemporary perspective organized around criteria such as built versus unbuilt, urban versus peripheral, or competition-sponsored versus commi...(展开全部)

The discipline of landscape architecture encompasses many typologies, from domestic gardens and neighborhood playgrounds to urban desig ns and state parks. Most critical studies of the discipline tend to approach it from a historical or contemporary perspective organized around criteria such as built versus unbuilt, urban versus peripheral, or competition-sponsored versus commi...(展开全部)

A wry, tender portrait of a young woman—finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely—from a captivating new literary voice The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why—she doesn’t know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious te...(展开全部)

From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House—a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years. Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush and Cheney era. Theirs was th...(展开全部)

弗兰克·托马斯 奥利·约翰斯顿 这两位著名的迪斯尼艺术家都是《原动画基础教程》作者理查德·威廉姆斯的动画制作老师，两人在斯坦福大学求学时相识，随后分别于20世纪30年代加入迪斯尼工作室。他们不仅曾与沃尔特·迪斯尼本人共事，而且还在迪斯尼动画片长达半个世纪的历史中与多位一流大师合作。他们亲身参与了迪斯尼绝大多数经典动画作品中各种人物的动画制作，并且几十年来与其他艺术家紧密合作，使这种动画艺术形式日臻完美，其中每部动画长片都需要大约250万张图稿。 1978年，两人从沃尔特·迪斯尼制片公司退休并开始撰写本书。同年，两人获得DKA国家荣誉电影兄弟会南加利福尼亚大学分会颁发的“电影先驱”奖，并随后在华盛顿特区的肯尼迪中心获得美国电影学会颁发的其他荣誉奖项。

角田光代 寻找幸福的现代女作家。 角田光代自1990年以出道处女作《寻找幸福的游戏》获得日本海燕新人文学奖，之后诸多作品也获得颇多文学奖项，2004年则以《对岸的她》摘下直木奖桂冠。评选委员渡边淳一认为角田光代的作品特色是：“真实写出现代女性的切身问题，将她们狡猾、温柔、友情等感受性融入日常生活中，化为杰出的作品，是过去所未有的现代女性小说。”2005年荣获直木赏（日本大众文学最高奖项），曾三度入围芥川赏、三度入围直木赏。与吉本芭娜娜、江国香织同被誉为当今日本文坛三大重要女作家。

This collection of essays celebrates those park lands of the American West that John Muir knew and loved. Muir captures the vital essence of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia, and other areas, detailing their natural attractions -- the breathtaking forests, lush alpine meadows, massive granite domes, towering sequoias, bursting geysers, thundering waterfalls, and crystalline glac...(展开全部)

约翰•缪尔（John Muir，1838—1914）世界环保运动的先驱。缪尔对自然风光浓墨重彩、光芒四射的描写吸引着欧美几代爱好文学的读者，而每个出门旅行的人也会从中得到更多的共鸣。对于生活在喧闹都市的芸芸众生，可从缪尔的书中去除浮躁之气，汲取心灵的清泉。

A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the appa...(展开全部)