An unobtrusive portrait photographer who knew what he wanted from his subjects at the onset of his career, August Sander is the photographer of the soul and the chronicler of an age. A meticulous workman and driven artist, he photographed the defeated citizenry of Germany in 1918, who needed photo identification cards for the occupying forces. By 1929 he had photographed all c...(展开全部)

The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home. 'If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitted our feelings to each other across three countries.' Elsa M. Anderson is a ...(展开全部)

An unobtrusive portrait photographer who knew what he wanted from his subjects at the onset of his career, August Sander is the photographer of the soul and the chronicler of an age. A meticulous workman and driven artist, he photographed the defeated citizenry of Germany in 1918, who needed photo identification cards for the occupying forces. By 1929 he had photographed all c...(展开全部)

The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husba...(展开全部)

The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husba...(展开全部)

A new entry in the Photofile series, this book features the work of August Sander, one of the early twentieth century’s most important photographers. August Sander (1876–1964) was a documentary photographer whose greatest project lasted his entire working life. His series of portrait studies of the German people spanning three eras―the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, and Na...(展开全部)

‘One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world’ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive leadership the Russian troops battle desperately, even as the inevitability of failure and their own sacrifice dawns. Solzhenitsyn’s astounding work of historical fiction is a ...(展开全部)

追憶と沈黙のメロウーー 幼なじみと埋めたタイムカプセルには、告白の手紙が入っていた。 会社員の文太郎は、夏期休暇の帰省中、ずっと音信不通だった幼なじみの一哲と14年ぶりの再会を果たす。 タイムカプセルに入っていた手紙をきっかけにして、 "火遊び"と自らに言い聞かせながらも体を重ねてしまう二人だったが……。 ひと夏の邂逅に、心ともなく抱えていた傷が癒されるーー 畠たかしのデビューコミックス。

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and SandM. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where yo...(展开全部)

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and SandM. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where yo...(展开全部)