In the films of Alfred Hitchcock, architecture plays an important role. Having worked as a set designer in the early 1920s, Hitchcock remained intensely concerned with the art direction of his films. In addition, the ’master of suspense’ made some remarkable single-set films, such as Rope and Rear Window, that explicitly deal with the way the confines of the set relate to those...(展开全部)

"The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics, " Plato's "Republic," and Thucydides' "Peloponnesian Wars." Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from the strangehold of ideology. The essays are based on a long and intimate...(展开全部)

"The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics, " Plato's "Republic," and Thucydides' "Peloponnesian Wars." Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of liberating modern political philosophy from the strangehold of ideology. The essays are based on a long and intimate...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬•里贝罗（Stephen Rebello），美国作家，编剧，为多家杂志专栏撰稿，文章散见于GQ、Playboy、Hollywood Life、Movieline等刊物。 黄渊，上海外国语大学法语系毕业，热爱电影，译有《这只是一部电影：希区柯克》(2006)、 《赫尔佐格谈赫尔佐格》(合译，2008)、 《施拉德论施拉德》(2008)、《双重生命，第二次机会：基耶斯洛夫斯基的电影》 (2008)、《我生命中的电影》(2008)、《剥削好莱坞》(2010)、《在黑暗中醒来：罗杰•伊伯特四十年精选》(2012)等书。

斯蒂芬•里贝罗（Stephen Rebello），美国作家，编剧，为多家杂志专栏撰稿，文章散见于GQ、Playboy、Hollywood Life、Movieline等刊物。 黄渊，上海外国语大学法语系毕业，热爱电影，译有《这只是一部电影：希区柯克》(2006)、 《赫尔佐格谈赫尔佐格》(合译，2008)、 《施拉德论施拉德》(2008)、《双重生命，第二次机会：基耶斯洛夫斯基的电影》 (2008)、《我生命中的电影》(2008)、《剥削好莱坞》(2010)、《在黑暗中醒来：罗杰•伊伯特四十年精选》(2012)等书。

Stephen Rebello's groundbreaking book offers the complete inside story on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's original Psycho, now seen as the forerunner of all modern horror thrillers. Rebello takes us behind the scenes for every step in the creation of this cinematic masterpiece-from the story's original inspiration to the controversy surrounding the creation of the famous showe...(展开全部)

Why are Germans so well informed on World War II while most Japanese know almost nothing about it? Why do the majority of West Germans feel guilty, Japanese victimised, and 'Ossies' virtuous? Ian Buruma explores the causes of these varied attitudes, both in the past culture of each country and in their post-war treatment and other subsequent events, and looks at how they were ...(展开全部)

2014 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. "Between Man and Man" is the classic work ...(展开全部)

Book Description The Magic School Bus was a series of children's books intended to teach scientific concepts to children. The books feature the exploits of Ms. Frizzle and her class of students at Walkerville Elementary School who board a magical school bus which takes them on educational adventures to space, under the Earth, into the human body, or to other such locations. ...(展开全部)