In the third book in the trilogy that includes Reduction and Givenness and Being Given. Marion renews his argument for a phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the phenomena of event, idol, flesh, and icon. Turning explicitly to hermeneutical dimensions of the debate, Marion masterfully draws together issues emerging from his close reading of Descartes and Pa...(展开全部)

In the third book in the trilogy that includes Reduction and Givenness and Being Given. Marion renews his argument for a phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the phenomena of event, idol, flesh, and icon. Turning explicitly to hermeneutical dimensions of the debate, Marion masterfully draws together issues emerging from his close reading of "Descartes and Pa...(展开全部)

ZER000 EXCESS is a work of ambient body horror. Depicting the birth and growth of strange organisms--creatures spawned from the maw of the text. Watch as they fester in the dark. Illuminated only by the reflection of the monitor-screen. The data glut bleeds out into desolate landscapes of zeros and ones. Biocosmic distortions. Pixel vibration. Flesh-plane flatness. Using cut-up...(展开全部)

Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics. Each...(展开全部)

by momojon Your book is more based on suppositions and improvised conclusions than on truth. - Karl Lagerfeld 别得罪“恺撒”，因为你极有可能会惹祸上身。日前Karl Lagerfeld一纸诉状递交巴黎法院，控告Alicia Drake的新书《The Beautiful Fall: Fashion,Genius,and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris》侵犯其隐私，导致后者花费5年心血写就的时尚“野史”惨遭被逐出法国的厄运。 该书聚焦1970年代的巴黎时尚圈，因为揭露了两位传奇设计师Yves Saint Laurent和Karl Lagerfeld之间源远流长的职场／情场竞争而倍受瞩目。只可惜Drake在书中毫不客气...(展开全部)

Winner of a 2013 Small Business Book Award for Economics The world is more overwhelming than ever before. Our work is deeper and more demanding than ever. Our businesses are more complicated and difficult to manage than ever. Our economy is more uncertain than ever. Our resources are scarcer than ever. There is endless choice and feature overkill in all but the best experiences...(展开全部)

This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama.

Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions that produce them, such as cinema, photography, advertising, and television, an...(展开全部)

Then out of nowhere after years of silence the words we used, our unobstructed accents, will well up from the dark of childhood, and once more on our lips we'll taste Greek salt. -from "Salt," translated by Jamie McKendrick Eugenio Montale (1896 - 1981) was the greatest Italian poet since Leopardi, perhaps since Petrarch, and is generally acknowledged as one of the preemi...(展开全部)

Inspired by family stories, two-time Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Holm beautifully blends family lore with America's past in this charming gem of a novel, rich in historical detail, humor, and the unique flavors of Key West. Life isn't like the movies, and eleven-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She's smart and tough and has see...(展开全部)