A new edition of a modern classic of photography. Martin Parr is Europe's premier contemporary photographer, and The Last Resort is the book that is considered to have launched his career. Taken at the height of the Thatcher years, it depicts the "great British seaside" in all its garish glory. Described by some as cruel and voyeuristic and by others as a stunning satire on t...(展开全部)

A new edition of a modern classic of photography. Martin Parr is Europe's premier contemporary photographer, and The Last Resort is the book that is considered to have launched his career. Taken at the height of the Thatcher years, it depicts the "great British seaside" in all its garish glory. Described by some as cruel and voyeuristic and by others as a stunning satire on t...(展开全部)

This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish and the other Slavic, which found refuge in Shanghai during the period 1900-1950. Victims of discrimination and persecution in their own lands—Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine—they chose Shanghai as their destination because no documentation was required to enter the city and s...(展开全部)

Marcia Reynders Ristaino is Senior Chinese Acquisitions Specialist at the Library of Congress. She is the author of China's Art of Revolution: The Mobilization of Discontent, 1927 and 1928.

その少女が身につけているのは、不思議な杖と鍔付き帽子に、レトロな郵便配達夫を思わせるがま口の鞄。その鞄の中に入っているのは、ただの手紙なんかじゃない。黒い切手が貼られたその手紙は、想いを残して逝ったひとが大切なひとへ宛てて書いた手紙…死後文。今日も少女―文伽は相棒である杖のマヤマとともに死後文を、ひどく優しい奇跡を運ぶ。―亡き家族へ、友人へ、恋人へ。想いを乗せた最後の手紙を。雨宮諒が贈る、切なくて優しい物語。

Walter Bagehot's "Lombard Street", published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system. Bagehot's book set down the principles that helped define the role of modern central banks, particularly in times of crisis...(展开全部)

Walter Bagehot's "Lombard Street", published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system. Bagehot's book set down the principles that helped define the role of modern central banks, particularly in times of crisis...(展开全部)