Ripley had kept his name and reputation clean, amazingly clean, considering. It would be most embarrassing for him if his interest in the Buckmaster Gallery were made public. The gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition. But now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake, it is of course. And he wants to talk to Derwatt....(展开全部)

In this harrowing illumination of the psychotic mind, the enviable Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But such a gracious life has not come easily. One inopportune inquiry, one inconvenient friend, and Ripley's world will come tumbling down--unless he takes decisive steps. In a ...(展开全部)

In this harrowing illumination of the psychotic mind, the enviable Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But such a gracious life has not come easily. One inopportune inquiry, one inconvenient friend, and Ripley's world will come tumbling down--unless he takes decisive steps. In a ...(展开全部)

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as spectacleand proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspe...(展开全部)

谢默斯·希尼(Seamus Heaney，1939-2013)，享誉世界的伟大诗人、剧作家、评论家、翻译家。1939年生于北爱尔兰德里郡，1961年毕业于贝尔法斯特女王大学，当过中学教师，后回母校任文学教师。二十多岁即以诗集《一位自然主义者之死》闻名诗坛。1972年和家人移居爱尔兰都柏林。曾任美国哈佛大学修辞学教授，英国牛津大学诗学教授。获艾略特诗歌奖、毛姆文学奖、史密斯文学奖等重要奖项，1995年因“其作品饱含抒情之美以及对伦理的深刻理解，凸显了日常生活的奇迹和历史的现实性”而获诺贝尔文学奖，被称为“继叶芝之后最伟大的爱尔兰诗人”。 译者简介 黄灿然，诗人、翻译家、评论家。1963年生于福建泉州，1978年移居香港，1988年毕业于暨南大学，曾长期任职香港大公报国际新闻翻译，现居深圳。2011年获华语文学传媒大奖年度诗人奖。近期译著有布罗茨基随笔...(展开全部)

Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In Uncommon Ground, David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of ...(展开全部)

This book describes the step-by-step process of writing a ray tracer from scratch. Using numerous examples that illustrate the ray-tracing concept and processes in detail, the author presents a ray-tracer design and sample code that allows for extensibility, efficiency of the algorithms, and readability. Chapters begin with stated aims and include questions and exercises that a...(展开全部)

戴芙妮•米勒 是哈佛大学医学博士，著名医师，兼加州大学医学教授。同时，她还是一名颇受欢迎的作家，为《华盛顿邮报》等媒体撰写专栏文章。过去十年，她的教学与写作都在探讨生物医学和自然科学的前沿问题。 当她面临诸多患者的病症难题，无法在传统医疗找到完整且令人信服的诊疗方案时，开始关注农业生态与人体之间的联系，她深入全球各地的传统社区及农场，探寻健康与自然之间关系，并撰写了这本《重新认识身体》，开启了全新的健康理念，受到医学界广泛关注，在美国引发了一场全新的生活方式的改变。

As selected by the author, "Opened Ground" includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, "The Cure at Troy" and "Sweeney Astray," and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscen...(展开全部)

As selected by the author, "Opened Ground" includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, "The Cure at Troy" and "Sweeney Astray," and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscen...(展开全部)