The first English translation of Macherey's philosophical work. Best known for his work in literary criticism, Pierre Macherey has, over the past two decades, producted a series of original philosophical works. This first collection of his philosophical writings to be published in English discloses the full range of Macherey's interventions, testifying to his signal status as o...(展开全部)

Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham's writings...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly In these 20 enjoyable lectures, articles, prefaces and reviews covering a span of 30 years, a great American literary biographer writes with insight, wisdom, humor and charm about the subjects of his major works (Wilde, Yeats and Joyce) as well as about Washington Irving, George Eliot, Henry James, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens,...(展开全部)

理查德•艾尔曼（Richard Ellmann，1918—1987）是二十世纪现代主义文学权威，尤其在爱尔兰文学研究方面堪称一代学术巨匠。他曾就学于耶鲁大学和都柏林圣三一学院，后在哈佛、耶鲁、牛津等名校任教与讲学。从1970年起，担任牛津大学哥德史密斯英语文学教授， 直至1984年荣休。艾尔曼一生治学严谨，著述精益求精，代表作有传记《叶芝：真人与假面》《乔伊斯传》和《王尔德传》，其中《乔伊斯传》获得1959年美国国家图书奖，《王尔德传》获得1989年普利策传记奖，在西方学界备受推崇。他的其他作品还有文学评论集《川流复始》《都柏林文学四杰》等，并编有《乔伊斯书信集》《诺顿现代诗选》等。

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within...(展开全部)

Pierre Herme is acknowledged to be the greatest pastry chef in France, and at long last he divulges his recipes for more than one hundred divinely delicious and stunning desserts - many surprisingly easy to prepare. There are cakes, cookies, tarts, sweets for special occasions, and traditionally holiday creations. His chapter on dessert fundamentals, such as perfect tart dough,...(展开全部)

Pierre Herme is acknowledged to be the greatest pastry chef in France, and at long last he divulges his recipes for more than one hundred divinely delicious and stunning desserts - many surprisingly easy to prepare. There are cakes, cookies, tarts, sweets for special occasions, and traditionally holiday creations. His chapter on dessert fundamentals, such as perfect tart dough,...(展开全部)

Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers. As this book argues, every er...(展开全部)