Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than ever-we just can't see the good ones. Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is treated with contempt. Using examples ra...(展开全部)

Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much-needed light on this principle. She argues that it is flawed because we are obligated to perform some actions that we cannot perform, and goes on to present a suggested theory for anyone who would deny t...(展开全部)

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

《我们所能知道的》是一部探索、一部文学惊悚片和一段爱情故事，它跨越过去、现在和未来，提出了关于我们是谁以及我们将去往哪里的深刻问题。 2014年：一首伟大的诗歌被大声朗诵，却再也听不到。几代人以来，人们一直在猜测它所蕴含的信息，但至今仍未找到任何抄本。 2119年：英国的低地被不断上升的海平面淹没。幸存下来的人们被失落的世界的丰富多彩所困扰。 汤姆·梅特卡夫是南唐斯大学的学者，南唐斯大学是英国仅存的群岛之一。他深入研究了21世纪初的档案，被人类生活时期的自由与可能性深深吸引。 当他偶然发现一条可能指向这失传巨作的线索时，纠缠不清的爱情和残酷的犯罪真相浮现，打破了他对一个他自认为非常了解的故事的假设。 《我们能知道什么》是一部杰作，它将我们眼前的现实从迫在眉睫的灾难感中解放出来，并描绘了一个并非一切都已消失的未来世界。 A quest, a liter...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Photographer Walter Wick has created his best photographs ever for this highly collectible book that features blocks, beads, buttons, toys, and more! Readers are invited to search for fascinating objects in colorful compositions that reach a new level of aesthetic excellence! This beautiful book will be treasured by all!

Acclaimed social psychologist Claude M. Steele offers an insider's look at his groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity. Through dramatic personal stories, he shares the experiments and studies that show, again and again, that exposing subjects to stereotypes-merely reminding a group of female maths students about to take a test, for example, that women are considere...(展开全部)

Acclaimed social psychologist Claude M. Steele offers an insider's look at his groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity. Through dramatic personal stories, he shares the experiments and studies that show, again and again, that exposing subjects to stereotypes-merely reminding a group of female maths students about to take a test, for example, that women are considere...(展开全部)

Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover....(展开全部)

Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply "the best single work of its kind." And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at James Monaco's ability to collect "an enormous amount of useful information and assemble it in an exhilaratingly simple and systematic way." Indeed, since its original publication in 1977, this hugely popular book has become ...(展开全部)