在线阅读本书 Why Dubai? It's been called the fastest-growing city on earth-a hub for the Gulf region experiencing unprecedented growth in energy, financial services, consumer goods, hospitality, retail, real estate, technology, shipping, and countless other industries. According to global strategist and advisor to Fortune 500 companies Aamir A. Rehman, no truly global firm can aff...(展开全部)

We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer --- to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarassment --- from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, ec...(展开全部)

Jennifer Dorothy Lee is Associate Professor of East Asian Art in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer --- to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarassment --- from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, ec...(展开全部)

Jennifer Dorothy Lee is Associate Professor of East Asian Art in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

迈克·法尔 从哈罗公学和剑桥大学三一学院美术系毕业之后，迈克·法尔成为路透社驻外记者和《每日电讯报》的记者。他被派往“丁丁”到过的很多地方，非洲、苏联、东欧和中欧。在他被派驻比利时布鲁塞尔工作期间，有幸结识了《丁丁历险记》的作者埃尔热，并得到了大量相关的档案资料。 1989年，迈克·法尔在英国的切尔西市政厅为纪念“丁丁诞辰60周年”举办的首届丁丁展览会工作。从此，他成为了英国丁丁学者的引领者。他翻译并编写了大量有关“丁丁”和埃尔热的书籍，其中最知名和畅销的就是《永远的丁丁》。他还应邀在学校和各种机构解读《丁丁历险记》，包括皇家地理学会、国家海事博物馆、剑桥大学和革新俱乐部，以及英国国内外与文学艺术相关的各种盛会。他经常在电视、广播中讲解“丁丁”，并参加了纪录片《丁丁与我》的录制。 另外，他还著有一部入围托马斯·库克奖的有关德意志民主共和国、波兰和波西...(展开全部)

Giger hand has fathered some of the most remarkable creatures in recent memory including the creatures in Ridley Scott's film Allen. This pocket-sized book highlights his best work.

Product Description Marcelo, a humble clerk in a Barcelona office who might have come from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing and a mental trauma has meant that he has been unable to put pen to paper; he has become a 'Bartleby', so named after the ch...(展开全部)

A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature. In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to an...(展开全部)