Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman, and a certified public intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime of his existence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of a fashionable New York high-rise, and it is urging him to k...(展开全部)

诺曼·梅勒(1923— )是美国存在主义小说家。他在战后参与政治活动的同时从事文学创作，并接受了存在主义哲学。第一部作品《裸者与死者》是现实主义、自然主义与象征主义三结合的手法写成，具有明显的弗洛伊德学说和尼采思想的影响。此后较重要的作品有《白色黑人》、《一场美国梦》、《巴巴里海滨》、《我们为什么到越南》等。文集有《总统文件》、《食人生番与基督教》、《黑色大军》、《月亮上的火焰》等。但均未产生像《裸者与死者》、《白色黑人》那样的轰动效应。 《白色黑人》和《一场美国梦》是作家引起较大反响的作品。《白色黑人》是对“垮掉的一代”的嬉皮士心理进行分析，从存在主义角度论证了“垮掉的一代”产生的社会意义。从此，批评界将他视为存在主义在美国的代表人物。

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An Americ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Hans Bacher is acknowledged as one of the greats of production design for animation and he has been given unparalleled access to Disney's archives to uncover eye-popping examples of both his own work and that of his colleagues. With illustrations from Bambi, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Brother Bear and many more - it is a visual feast of never-before-seen artwork, comp...(展开全部)

In "Alphabet for Gourmets," M.F.K. Fisher arranges a selection of her essays in a whimsical way that reveals the breadth and depth of her passion. From A for (dining) alone to Z for Zakuski, "a Russian hors d'oeuvre," Fisher alights on both longtime obsessions and idiosyncratic digressions. As usual, she liberates her readers from caution and slavish adherence to culinary tradi...(展开全部)

作者大衛.馮大拿博士（Dr. David Fontana）以傳統容格（Jung）派的精神分析，發展出獨創的夢境工作室，提出有效的方法，引導你與夢對話

作者大衛.馮大拿博士（Dr. David Fontana）以傳統容格（Jung）派的精神分析，發展出獨創的夢境工作室，提出有效的方法，引導你與夢對話

In this elegant, erudite but entertaining book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.Framing this history is the life-story of the nineteenth-century Russian Scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after conceiving the Periodic Table in ...(展开全部)

In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamt would fundamentally change the way we see the world.Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke ...(展开全部)

A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopher When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an “ecology of images,” she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and...(展开全部)