让•热内（Jean Genet 1910—1986），法国作家。出生后被遗弃，在教养院长大。早年流浪、偷窃、卖淫，多次被捕入狱。在狱中开始写作诗歌和小说，包括《死囚》、《鲜花圣母》、《小偷日记》等。作品被纪德、科克托等人发现，叹为天才，他们与萨特等数十位作家联名向法国总统请愿，要求终身赦免热内。出狱后，热内转入戏剧创作，代表作有《女仆》、《阳台》、《屏风》等，声誉鹊起。后参与社会运动，支持被压迫者的反抗，尤其是巴勒斯坦民族解放运动。

Inside the Whale is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller with Orwell discoursing more widely over English literature i

"Singularly interesting and stimulating. . . . A passionate and original work of scholarship."—Richard Wollheim, Times Literary Supplement "With the publication [of Rembrandt's Enterprise], Svetlana Alpers has firmly established herself in the front ranks of art historians at work today. . . . The book is not a long one. Yet, there is more perceptive scholarship packed into i...(展开全部)

A sunny garden hums, buzzes, creeps and crawls with life. Lift the flaps and peep through the delicate laser-cut holes to discover a whole host of butterflies, birds and bees, caterpillars, squirrels, frogs and other garden wildlife. A delightful information book for the very young.

From Publishers Weekly This revised edition of a 1984 study is long on assertion and short on evidence. Dr. Samenow, a clinical psychologist, is legitimately disdainful of explanations of criminal behavior that blame everyone (society, family, violent television, etc.) but the criminal for his actions, but his counter-arguments will persuade few. He makes frequent sweeping gene...(展开全部)

Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production under Hitler, the man who had kept Germany armed and the war machine running even after Hitler's mystique had faded, takes a brutally honest look at his role in the war effort, giving readers a complete view of the inside of the Nazi state. Photos & illustrations.