In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the disc...(展开全部)

From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. . . . Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely pri...(展开全部)

This brief text consistently relates core course material to students' lives, clarifies the process of science and demonstrates how the theme of evolution integrates all of biology. Hailed for its clear writing, scientific accuracy, and real-world examples, Essential Biology is a brief non-majors biology text that focuses on the core concepts students need to make scientificall...(展开全部)

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value ...(展开全部)

Explore the fascinating world of anime through 30 classic films in this new book from the authors of Ghibliotheque The Ghibliotheque Guide to Anime gives an accessible beginner's tour to the wildly popular world of Japanese animated cinema, charting a path that takes in everything from titans of the industry like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Your Name, to deeper cuts, hidden g...(展开全部)

日本动画80年—— 宫崎骏、大友克洋、川尻善昭、押井守、今 敏、汤浅政明、庵野秀明、新海诚、细田守……30位导演、30部经典动画，一窥日本动画产业的轨迹 从类型、主题、视觉表现到各世代天才名导 破解日本动画席卷全球的织梦技术 带领读者进入日本动画的神奇世界 知名Podcast节目“吉卜力图书馆”（Ghibliotheque）主持人杰克汉和麦可，继广受好评的《吉卜力电影完全指南》之后再次出击。这次的野心更大，他们揭开80年来日本动画风靡世界的神秘面纱，带领读者探访日本动画产业的轨迹，分析这些动画的看点，并分享幕后制作的精彩故事。 本书从1958年的《白蛇传》开始，以2021年的《龙与雀斑公主》结束，作者以一位导演一部片为原则，选出30部最具代表性的动画。在漫长60多年的时光里，媒介技术、表现形式、动画制作的体制与劳动等问题不断演变。在其中，雄心壮志往往...(展开全部)

Gilles Deleuze has produced some of the most important -- and most formidable -- theory on cinema to appear in the last half-century. Deleuze on Cinema provides a thorough and reliable guide to Deleuze's thought on the art of film, elucidating in clear language the shape and thrust of Deleuze's arguments found in his influential books on cinema.

Gilles Deleuze has produced some of the most important -- and most formidable -- theory on cinema to appear in the last half-century. Deleuze on Cinema provides a thorough and reliable guide to Deleuze's thought on the art of film, elucidating in clear language the shape and thrust of Deleuze's arguments found in his influential books on cinema.

Essential Cell Biology provides an accessible introduction to the fundamental concepts of cell biology. Its lively writing and exceptional illustrations make it the ideal textbook for a first course in cell and molecular biology. The text and figures are easy-to-follow, accurate, clear, and engaging for the introductory student. Molecular detail has been kept to a minimum in or...(展开全部)

本书为那些没有太多时间学习的程序员提供了一条在工作中学习C++的捷径。它把重点放在那些C++编程中重要的要素上，并覆盖能够帮助解决实际编程问题的特性和技术。 本书将C++的基本内容按照过程风格、泛型风格、基于对象风格，以及面向对象风格进行组织。本书采用复杂度渐进的风格展开，并在讨论解决方案的过程中引入语言特性，便于学习C++的功能和结构，同时理解其目的和基本理念。 书中完整深入探讨了以下主要内容： 泛型编程和标准模板库（STL） 基于对象的编程和类的设计 面向对象的编程和类层次体系的设计 函数和类模板的设计和使用 异常处理和运行时类型信息（RTTI） 此外，附录A里还为每一章最后的习题给出了完整的答案和详细解释。附录B则是一本泛型算法的快速参考手册，解释了每个算法的使用方法并给出了示例。 这本精炼的教程提供了C++实战所必需的知识点，为你进一步的学习...(展开全部)