The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

这是对 Spotify 的起源及其对音乐的影响的一次毫不留情的调查，将报道与尖锐的文化批评交织在一起，阐明了流媒体如何为听众和艺术家重塑音乐。 通过对业内人士、前 Spotify 员工和音乐家的一百多次采访，Mood Machine 带我们了解了当今高度整合的唱片业务的内部运作，展示了随着音乐越来越多地被列入播放列表、个性化和自动播放，发生了哪些变化。 音乐记者 Liz Pelly 在多年广泛报道流媒体的基础上，通过研究该公司所谓的双边市场的双方，详细描述了 Spotify 模式的后果：用他们的金钱和数据付费的听众，以及提供所有支持材料的音乐家。音乐行业以不透明而闻名，但 Pelly 在这里揭开了重要新闻的面纱，例如流媒体服务用低成本的库存音乐填充热门播放列表以及新的类似贿赂的做法的兴起。 尽管流媒体加剧了不平等现象，但佩利也从记录艺术家为争取更好模...(展开全部)

The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

在线阅读本书 Book Description The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on li...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on li...(展开全部)

帕特南·威爾（Putnam Weale），即伯特倫·萊諾克斯·辛普森（Bertram Lenox simpson, 1877—1930），英國人，生於寧波，是中國海關一位英籍官員的兒子。早年留學瑞士，除母語英語外，還能流利地運用法語，德語和漢語。回到中國後，曾在中國海關總稅務司署任職，1902年辭職，投身新聞業，先後任幾家英國報紙駐北京的通訊員、倫敦《每日電訊報》（The Daily Telegraph）駐北京記者，1916年被中華民國總統黎元洪聘為總統府顧問，負責對外宣傳，1922—1925年兼任奉系軍閥張作霖的顧問，期間還主持了當時北京的英文報紙《東方時報》（The Far Eastern Times 1923—1928）。1930年他轉而支持閻錫山，後於同年11月遇刺身亡。 辛普森是知名的中國通，出版過《遠東的新調整》《滿人和俄國人》《來自北京...(展开全部)