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)

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)

Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of decolonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appeared to be stuck in a process of irreversible decline. Constant war, improper use of natural resources and misappropriation of reven...(展开全部)

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)

英国当代名作家阿兰·霍林赫斯特(1954-)，生于英格兰一个中产阶级家庭。自幼喜欢歌剧和建筑艺术。1981年，从牛津大学毕业后来到伦敦；1985年，成为《时代文学增刊》的编辑。1988年以长篇处女作《泳池图书馆》一举成名。第二部长篇，1994年出版的《折叠的星星》进入当年布克奖最后候选名单，并获布莱克纪念奖。这两部小说和分别于1998、2004年出版的《咒语》和《美丽曲线》都是同性恋题材。《美丽曲线》获2004年度布克奖，这是布克奖设立36年来第一次颁发给关于同性恋的小说。 本书讲述牛津大学毕业生尼克，从外向来到伦敦四年的生活经历。他住在伦敦一个保守主义议员的家里，先和牙买加裔公务员利奥相恋并发生了关系，后来又迷上了吸食可卡因上瘾的年轻的黎巴嫩裔百万富翁万尼，成为了他的情人、门客和合作者。在万尼罹患艾滋病、丑闻见诸报端之后，尼克遭遇房东的驱逐。小说...(展开全部)

It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend ...(展开全部)

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)

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)