Essential texts on the work of the influential artist Michael Snow: essays and interviews spanning more than four decades. Few filmmakers have had as large an impact on the recent avant-garde film scene as Canadian Michael Snow (b. 1928). His works in a range of media—film, installation, video, painting, sculpture, sound, photography, drawing, writing, and music—address the fun...(展开全部)

这是一部描写在日常生活中猫与人类之间相互关系的幽默故事， 我们的主人公麦克，毫无疑问是只猫， 但故事同样也反映了人类的态度。 在故事中，猫似乎成了反映人类着“超级物种”的一面镜子。 一天，麦克出现在漫画家小林的家中。 即使从那一天起，小林和他的妻子便开始尽力与麦克相处， 猫想上他自己的事情，而人类则时时要改变它，这便是故事矛盾的主线。 麦克仅是一只不同的猫。 自由，冷漠而懒散，身边围绕着那些来去匆匆的人类。 而作为猫，他也有自己的事情要处理，与凶猛的母猫猫斯拉相处就是一个例子。 猫斯拉甚至连狗都惧怕她三分，更不要说麦克了。 但麦克还有他惟恐避之不及的事情，那就是孩子的玩弄。 故事当中有很多情节都将猫拟人化，例如，我们经常可以看到他们在一起开会或踢球等等……

Set in Jerusalem at the time of the Suez crisis, this is a study of a woman's retreat from an unhappy marriage into a private world of fantasy and repressed desires. Her subsequent mental breakdown is mirrored in the local scenes of disruption and violence caused by the coming war.

Designed for use at the college level as a textbook for military history courses or supplemental reading for world history courses, this text offers an introduction and original synthesis of global military history. Each chapter traces key developments in military institutions and practices set in three crucial contexts: politics and institutions; social structures and economic...(展开全部)

The China Society for People's Friendship Studies (PFS) in cooperation with the Foreign Languages Press (FLP)in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled light on China, of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events des...(展开全部)

2007年诺贝尔文学奖得主

Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has ha...(展开全部)

约翰·艾伯斯John Aberth 英国剑桥大学博士，研究方向为中世纪晚期的黑死病。在美国佛蒙特州多所大学授课。著有《黑死病：1348—1350年大瘟疫》《第一位牧马人：人类历史上的疾病》《末日边缘：中世纪晚期的饥荒、战争与死亡》等。

S.A.M.艾兹赫德（S.A.M.Adshead），新西兰坎特伯雷大学历史学资深教材，曾就读于牛津大学、哈佛大学、专攻中国历史，在中国盐政管理研究方面享有世界声誉。除本书外，重要著作有《中国盐政时的现代化》（The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration，1900-1920）、《世界历史中的中亚》（Central Asia in World History，1993）、《欧洲和中国的物质文化：1400-1800》（Material Culture in Europe and China，1400-1800）、《唐代中国：世界历史上的东方崛起》（T'and China：the rise of the east in world history，2004）等。