Produced in a pocket-sized, jacketed-paperback format, Phaidon's miniature editions make ideal gifts and desirable possessions. Each book features a wealth of finely reproduced colour images.

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent i...(展开全部)

"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

卢塞尔•米勒（Russell•Milley），1938年出生于英国伦敦东部。从16岁开始从事新闻报道工作，很快成为英国主要报刊的撰稿人，曾四次荣获新闻报道奖，并被英国杂志编辑协会评为年度作家，目前是《日与夜》及《邮报》的专栏作家。

Since Magnum was founded in 1947, its members have been on hand to bear witness on the front line of world history. From Robert Capa's stark photograph of a Loyalist soldier being shot in the head during the Spanish Civil War to Eve Arnold's astonishingly intimate portraits of well-known faces - from Joan Crawford to Malcolm X - Magnum has changed how we perceive our political ...(展开全部)

Grushin's stunning debut drew praise that placed her in the top rank of young literary voices. Now she returns with that rarity: a second novel even more dazzling than her first. The line: the universal symbol of scarcity and bureauA-cracy that exists wherever petty officials are let loose to abuse their powers. The line begins to form on the whispered rumor that a famous exi...(展开全部)

韦涅季克特•叶罗费耶夫（1938—1990），俄罗斯天才作家。早年在莫斯科大学就读时就表现出是一个“天生的语言学家”，但他一生大部分时间却只能混迹底层，当过装卸工、酒瓶收购员、地质钻探工、图书管理员等工作，其足迹曾遍及乌克兰、白俄罗斯以及俄罗斯的莫斯科州、北极地区等地。叶罗费耶夫从少年时代起就开始写作，但是由于生性懒散、不善管理，大部分作品都已散佚或没有完成。他完成并已出版的著作有《从莫斯科到佩图什基》《滑稽演员眼中的瓦西里• 罗赞诺夫》《女妖五朔节之夜，或骑士的脚步》等。 译者张冰，北京师范大学教授。译有俄罗斯文学作品多种。

莉迪亚•戴维斯（Lydia Davis） 美国当代著名小说家、翻译家。她的小说以语言精悍、结构新颖、洞察人性在美国文学界独树一帜。2005 年当选为美国艺术科学院院士，2013 荣获布克国际奖，长期致力于法国经典文学的译介工作，现为纽约州立阿伯尼大学创意写作教授。