The Gregg family loves hunting, but their eight-year-old neighbor can't stand it. After countless pleas for them to stop are ignored, she has no other choice -- she has to put her magic finger on them. Now the Greggs are a family of birds, and like it or not, they're going to find out how it feels to be on the other end of the gun.

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that p...(展开全部)

One night, Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning the world is shattered and she's forced to leave her childhood home. She is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met. There, she meets Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless; and brooding Uncle Philip, who loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop...(展开全部)

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that p...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·芬奇（Christopher Finch）曾创作过多部关于美国艺术的书籍，包括《克·克劳斯：工作》《查克·克劳斯：生活》《吉姆·汉森：作品》《诺曼·洛克威尔画笔下的美国》等。他最早在位于伦敦的切尔西艺术学院研究绘画，六十年代中期开始撰写艺术评论，并成为了《艺术与艺术家》和英国版《时尚》杂志的特约编辑。在这段时期，他撰写了大量关于英美当代艺术，特别是流行艺术的文章。1967年，他在纽约开始了自由撰稿人的职业生涯，直至1990年搬到洛杉矶为止。 彭静宜，四川成都人，电影学硕士，现就职于中国电影艺术研究中心。

The Art of Walt Disney is one of Abrams' enduring classics. Thirty years and well over half a million copies after its first publication in 1973, it is still considered the definitive study of The Walt Disney Company's vast artistic achievements through the decades. The book tells the remarkable story of Walt Disney and the company he built, from Mickey Mouse to animated featur...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·芬奇（Christopher Finch）曾创作过多部关于美国艺术的书籍，包括《克·克劳斯：工作》《查克·克劳斯：生活》《吉姆·汉森：作品》《诺曼·洛克威尔画笔下的美国》等。他最早在位于伦敦的切尔西艺术学院研究绘画，六十年代中期开始撰写艺术评论，并成为了《艺术与艺术家》和英国版《时尚》杂志的特约编辑。在这段时期，他撰写了大量关于英美当代艺术，特别是流行艺术的文章。1967年，他在纽约开始了自由撰稿人的职业生涯，直至1990年搬到洛杉矶为止。 彭静宜，四川成都人，电影学硕士，现就职于中国电影艺术研究中心。

Taussig describes how through theatres of ecstasy, composed of fragments of the great story that the State, for the perpetuation of its spiritual authority, needs to tell about itself, these spirits are provided a reservoir of magical powers. Developing concepts of the sacred from Bataille, the post-Surreal College of Sociology, Canetti, Marx, Hobbes and Walter Benjamin, Tauss...(展开全部)

Taussig describes how through theatres of ecstasy, composed of fragments of the great story that the State, for the perpetuation of its spiritual authority, needs to tell about itself, these spirits are provided a reservoir of magical powers. Developing concepts of the sacred from Bataille, the post-Surreal College of Sociology, Canetti, Marx, Hobbes and Walter Benjamin, Tauss...(展开全部)

Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)