这是对 Spotify 的起源及其对音乐的影响的一次毫不留情的调查，将报道与尖锐的文化批评交织在一起，阐明了流媒体如何为听众和艺术家重塑音乐。 通过对业内人士、前 Spotify 员工和音乐家的一百多次采访，Mood Machine 带我们了解了当今高度整合的唱片业务的内部运作，展示了随着音乐越来越多地被列入播放列表、个性化和自动播放，发生了哪些变化。 音乐记者 Liz Pelly 在多年广泛报道流媒体的基础上，通过研究该公司所谓的双边市场的双方，详细描述了 Spotify 模式的后果：用他们的金钱和数据付费的听众，以及提供所有支持材料的音乐家。音乐行业以不透明而闻名，但 Pelly 在这里揭开了重要新闻的面纱，例如流媒体服务用低成本的库存音乐填充热门播放列表以及新的类似贿赂的做法的兴起。 尽管流媒体加剧了不平等现象，但佩利也从记录艺术家为争取更好模...(展开全部)

The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

William Olaf Stapledon was born in 1886 and educated at Abbotsholme School, Balliol College,Oxford,and Liverpool Univesity.After spending eighteen months with a shipping office in Liverpool and Port Said,he lectured extramurally for Liverpool University in English literature and industrial history. He served in France with the Friend's Ambulance Unit from 1915 to 1919.He subseq...(展开全部)

"Probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written" Arthur C. Clarke

Driven out into the night by the bitterness of his life, an Englishman finds himself contemplating the night sky - its immensity, its mystery. Without explanation, he suddenly finds himself floating out into its depths. There he explores strange worlds, links with other conscious beings, and witnesses the birth and death of civilizations. As the scope of his experiences expands...(展开全部)

Discover simple yet powerful steps you can take to overcome emotional distress--and feel happier, calmer, and more confident. This life-changing book has already helped more than 1,000,000 readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy--one of today's most effective forms of psychotherapy--to conquer depression, anxiety, panic attacks, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating dis...(展开全部)

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)