詹姆斯·戴森 戴森创始人兼首席工程师。戴森以革命性的气旋吸尘器和Supersonic吹风机闻名，旗下各品类产品以创新的技术、设计和效能享誉全球，销往世界各地。 詹姆斯·戴森1947年出生于英国诺福克，曾在伦敦皇家艺术学院学习设计，随后加入罗托克公司，与杰里米·弗莱一起设 计和制造海上卡车。 詹姆斯·戴森相信，工程师和创业家可以改变世界。他创设了戴森工程技术学院、詹姆斯·戴森基金会和戴森设计大奖，支持和鼓励更多人加入这个事业。

Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life. Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner that would transform the way houses are cleaned ar...(展开全部)

Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popularity of cinema in the late nineteenth century to emerging cultural phenomena su...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

"The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written." -Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other onevolume life of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reade...(展开全部)

胡安·卡洛斯·奥内蒂 （Juan Carlos Onetti，1909-1994） 乌拉圭作家。1909年生于乌拉圭蒙得维的亚。年少时家境贫寒，未受高等教育。曾任左翼杂志《前进》周刊秘书，后担任路透社驻布宜诺斯艾利斯办事处主任，1955年回国后任蒙得维的亚市图书馆馆长，1974年因受军政府迫害流亡到西班牙，1994年病逝于马德里。在生命的最后十二年里，他足不出户，终日躺在床上阅读、吸烟、喝威士忌，在位于马德里美洲大道31号的家中接受读者和记者的拜访。 1939年，奥内蒂凭借长篇小说《井》走上文坛，他在二十世纪四五十年代创作出的《无主之地》《为了今夜》《离别》等作品被文学界认为是拉丁美洲“新小说”的奠基之作。在1950年出版的小说《短暂的生命》中，奥内蒂虚构出了一个名叫 “圣玛利亚”的城镇，这座城镇也与加西亚·马尔克斯的马孔多、胡安·鲁尔福的科马拉等地...(展开全部)

Written in 1950, "A Brief Life" is the first novel to feature Onetti's mythical town of Santa Maria. His protagonist Brausen eavesdrops on the conversation of his neighbours, a husband and wife, imagining their gestures, their expressions.Brausen lives with his wife, who has undergone major surgery after being diagnosed with breast cancer. To compensate for this physical void w...(展开全部)

The epic autobiography of a manga master Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections "The Push Man and Other Stories," "Abandon the Old in Tokyo," and "Good-Bye"--originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever--the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic nov...(展开全部)