Wagner's Ring is a great masterpiece. But because of the work's rich complexity it is difficult to think sensibly about its text and music. Deryck Cooke, author of The Language of Music and completer of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, displays his masterly common sense in this study of how and why The Ring took the shape it did. It is only a portion of the enormous book he had planned...(展开全部)

罗杰·斯克鲁顿，作家、哲学家、英国国家学术院和英国皇家文学学会研究员，在伦敦大学、牛津大学、波士顿大学、圣安德鲁斯大学等知名学府拥有职位。他的作品涵盖了艺术、建筑、音乐、美学等诸多领域。他的作品包括如今已成为经典的《现代哲学简史》（1981）、《音乐美学》（1997）、《至死不渝的心:瓦格纳<特里斯坦与伊索尔德>中的性和神圣感》(2004)以及《傻瓜、骗子和煽动者》（2015年再版）。

罗杰·斯克鲁顿，作家、哲学家、英国国家学术院和英国皇家文学学会研究员，在伦敦大学、牛津大学、波士顿大学、圣安德鲁斯大学等知名学府拥有职位。他的作品涵盖了艺术、建筑、音乐、美学等诸多领域。他的作品包括如今已成为经典的《现代哲学简史》（1981）、《音乐美学》（1997）、《至死不渝的心:瓦格纳<特里斯坦与伊索尔德>中的性和神圣感》(2004)以及《傻瓜、骗子和煽动者》（2015年再版）。

By the time he created these images, Rackham was England's leading illustrator, famous throughout the world for his interpretations of fairy tales and myths. These illustrations from the original 1911 and 1912 editions, widely regarded as the greatest representations of Wagner's drama, constitute Rackham's masterworks. 64 full-page color images and 9 vignettes.

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours," comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scutt...(展开全部)

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours," comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scutt...(展开全部)

迈克尔•坎宁安（1952-） 美国当代著名作家。 目前在耶鲁大学担任创造性写作课程教授。 1990出版《末世之家》，受到广泛赞誉。 1995年获得怀廷作家奖。 1998年作品《时时刻刻》获得巨大成功，登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜，同时获得普利策奖和笔会/福克纳奖，并被改编成同名电影，妮可•基德曼凭借该部影片摘得第75届奥斯卡最佳女主角奖。 1999年获得欧•亨利短篇小说奖。 2005年作品《试验年代》同样备受好评。 2011年作品《夜幕降临》长居《洛杉矶时报》畅销书榜。

It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. In this book Nancy Cartwright argues to the contrary. When we draw our image of the world from the way modern science works - as empiricism teaches us we should - we end up with a world where some features are...(展开全部)

It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. In this book Nancy Cartwright argues to the contrary. When we draw our image of the world from the way modern science works - as empiricism teaches us we should - we end up with a world where some features are...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY GRAND PRIX A tribute to George Orwell's 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Sansal's 2084 tells the story of a near future in which Islamic fundamentalists have established an oppressive caliphate where autonomus thought is forbidden. It is the year 2084. In the kingdom of Abistan—named after the prophet Abi, earthly mess...(展开全部)