"A vibrant telling, amplified by striking images and photographs, of the Curiosity mission to Mars....A totally gratifying account." --Kirkus Reviews "Kaufman’s vivid description of the Curiosity rover mission to Mars, its history and its scientific results brings you as close as possible (without being a member of the science team) to the excitement, the frustration and the ex...(展开全部)

Close up is right! Klein put a wide-angle lens on his camera, headed for any crowd he could find, and got as close as he could. He decided not to worry about graininess, blurriness, depth of field, and other technical considerations but to go for a spontaneous feel. He got it. These double-page, black-and-white photos are overflowing with people--blurry, grainy, and out of focu...(展开全部)

In this exhaustive guide to macro photography, respected author and photographer Adrian Davies takes a comprehensive approach to the subject, covering every aspect of the multi-faceted and often complicated world of close-up photography. Everything about Adrian's approach is both practical and diverse, with optimal output always in mind. His coverage of equipment, for example...(展开全部)

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of ...(展开全部)

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and...(展开全部)

Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of ...(展开全部)

阿尔维托•曼古埃尔（Alberto Manguel，1948— ）是阿根廷裔加拿大籍作家，也是编辑、翻译家、评论家和教育家，曾任阿根廷国家图书馆馆长。他出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，在特拉维夫度过童年；十几岁时回到阿根廷，为已盲的博尔赫斯担任朗读书童；后前往欧洲，在法国、英国、意大利等地生活和工作；在1980年代移居多伦多并成为加拿大公民。著有《阅读史》（1996年）、《深夜里的图书馆》（2007年）等。曾获古腾堡奖、布克国际文学奖等奖项。 毛竹，北京大学哲学系外国哲学博士，鲁汶大学访问学者，中国社会科学院哲学研究所博士后，现就职于《世界哲学》编辑部。著有《向京•作品集（别册）》等，译有《神学与科学的想象：从中世纪到17世纪》等。

阿尔维托•曼古埃尔（Alberto Manguel，1948— ）是阿根廷裔加拿大籍作家，也是编辑、翻译家、评论家和教育家，曾任阿根廷国家图书馆馆长。他出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，在特拉维夫度过童年；十几岁时回到阿根廷，为已盲的博尔赫斯担任朗读书童；后前往欧洲，在法国、英国、意大利等地生活和工作；在1980年代移居多伦多并成为加拿大公民。著有《阅读史》（1996年）、《深夜里的图书馆》（2007年）等。曾获古腾堡奖、布克国际文学奖等奖项。 毛竹，北京大学哲学系外国哲学博士，鲁汶大学访问学者，中国社会科学院哲学研究所博士后，现就职于《世界哲学》编辑部。著有《向京•作品集（别册）》等，译有《神学与科学的想象：从中世纪到17世纪》等。

In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close...(展开全部)

Inside the Whale is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller with Orwell discoursing more widely over English literature i