Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating story of an American literary legend, recorded through the voices of the friends and lovers of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats." Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Keoruac's life at home and on the road, and talked with the prophets, musicians, poets, socialites, and w...(展开全部)

“Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…” Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted....(展开全部)

“Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…” Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted....(展开全部)

Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first in lasting cultural importance. It is here that the classic biblical themes of oppression and redemption, of human enslavement and divine salvation, are most dramatically expressed. Joel Baden tells the story of this influential and enduring book, tracing how its famous account of the Israelites’ journey to th...(展开全部)

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her extraordinary second book, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for unde...(展开全部)

Comprising interviews with lesser documented developers at companies including Sega, Enix, Capcom, Hudson Soft and Nihon Falcom, Japansoft: An Oral History offers fresh and diverse perspectives on many of the defining games of their time. A re-edited digest of game journalist John Szczepaniak's three volume series, The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers. This edition a...(展开全部)

Japansoft以创新且设计精美的方式，讲述了日本新兴电子游戏产业的历史，由当时在场的人讲述，带领读者了解游戏、公司和人类的经历，它们塑造了一种全新的文化。 《日本软体：口述历史》采访了世嘉、艾尼克斯、卡普空、Hudson Soft 和日本 Falcom 等公司的游戏开发者，为我们这个时代的许多标志性游戏提供了新颖而多样的视角。这本书深入探讨了日本电子游戏行业的起源，记录了几十年来备受喜爱的创意时代。日本插画家长场雄的轶事插图，以及从未见过的时代照片、罕见的新闻广告，以及日本游戏时代早期标志性的关键电脑和游戏机的插图指南，为这本书增添了丰富的见解。 本书是游戏记者 John Szczepaniak 的三卷本系列作品《日本游戏开发者不为人知的历史》的重新编辑摘要，其中增加了对藤田晴美（ 《生化尖兵》）、船水则孝（《1943 年、88 区》）、松前爱美...(展开全部)

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain's greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume's works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England, bringing to light the major influences on the course of Hume's intellectual development, and paying careful attention to the dif...(展开全部)

Of all the thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated modern philosophy, none lived an intellectual life more rich and varied than Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Maria Rosa Antognazza's pioneering biography provides a unified portrait of this unique thinker and the world from which he came. At the centre of the huge range of Leibniz's apparently miscellaneous en...(展开全部)