詹姆斯·罗兹（James Rhodes, 1975— ） 38岁未成大名却写了自传，每章前面还用最伟大的作曲家和钢琴家为自己背书：巴赫、贝多芬、舒伯特、舒曼、肖邦、拉威尔……他到底是谁？ 他曾在18岁时得到伦敦市政厅音乐及戏剧学院的奖学金，却去到爱丁堡大学，完全放弃了钢琴弹奏且退学了一年。在巴黎的汉堡王打工12个月后，他去伦敦大学学院攻读心理学，随后在伦敦工作了五年。在毁灭性的精神崩溃致使他被精神疗养院收治之后，他再次拾起了钢琴。 他现在是一位备受赞扬的职业音乐会钢琴家、作者和电视主持人。他还录过五张唱片，但最享受的还是去世界各地的音乐厅现场演奏，对，穿着牛仔裤，在曲间与听众互动，讲讲跟曲子有关的故事，自己对曲子的理解。 这一切，都因为他年幼时不寻常的经历。 译者 周河清，毕业于上海音乐学院音乐学系，曾任编辑、作曲家助理、文案撰稿等。现教音乐、写稿子...(展开全部)

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery.

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery. From the Trade Paperback edition.

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. Reprint. 125,000 first printing. NYT.

The long-awaited memoir by “the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers” (New York Times). A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a bor...(展开全部)

The long-awaited memoir by “the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers” (New York Times). A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a bor...(展开全部)

The fascinating story of how Unix began and how it took over the world. Brian Kernighan was a member of the original group of Unix developers, the creator of several fundamental Unix programs, and the co-author of classic books like "The C Programming Language" and "The Unix Programming Environment."

The fascinating story of how Unix began and how it took over the world. Brian Kernighan was a member of the original group of Unix developers, the creator of several fundamental Unix programs, and the co-author of classic books like "The C Programming Language" and "The Unix Programming Environment."

As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the ...(展开全部)