Reads L to R (Western Style). In a perfect world, there is no escape In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It do...(展开全部)

Reads L to R (Western Style). In a perfect world, there is no escape In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It do...(展开全部)

Review "Gold-standard technical reference book for filmmakers." a"Boston Globe" "This is an essential book." a"Self-Reliant Filmmaking" "You need this book. Billed as the authoritative guide to filmmaking from fundraising to distribution, the book achieves this in clear, accessible language using current up-to-date information. It's easy to see why this has become a standard te...(展开全部)

斯拉沃热·齐泽克（Slavoj Žižek），斯洛文尼亚哲学家、文化批评家，当代最活跃的公共知识分子之一，长期致力于沟通黑格尔、马克思与拉康的精神分析理论，在政治理论、电影理论及理论精神分析等多个领域都有令人瞩目的贡献。1989年他的第一本英文著作《敏感的主体》出版后，迅速获得国际认可，成为二十世纪九十年代以来最耀眼的学术明星。因其犀利而独特的风格，齐泽克被称为“哲学界的摇滚歌手”。 唐健，人文科学学士（中西文学批评）、人文科学硕士（文化人类学），香港《明报》前国际新闻翻译，长期从事自由业翻译，2010年创办齐泽克学会，致力于研读和推介拉康、齐泽克及黑格尔思想。 张嘉荣，香港中文大学哲学硕士，曾任社工、心理辅导员，黑格尔-拉康主义者、齐泽克学会成员。

Modern culture has founded itself on drugs. Beyond their psychoactive effects, they have shaped some of the modern era's most fundamental philosophies and even helped expose the neurochemistry of the human brain. This examination of writing on drugs, including Coleridge on opium, Michaux on mescaline, Freud on cocaine and Burroughs on everything, is an exploration of the profou...(展开全部)

Walter Piston（1894-1976）是祖籍意大利的美国作曲家。他除了从事创作外，还著有和声、对位方面的音乐理论专书，曾任哈佛大学音乐系主任。

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. “Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times”(Nation). Index. An analysis of the nature, causes,...(展开全部)

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. “Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times”(Nation). Index. An analysis of the nature, causes,...(展开全部)

From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics 'Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it' Why has violence played such a significant role in human history? Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, war in V...(展开全部)

A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnn...(展开全部)