马歇尔·麦克卢汉（1911—1980），信息社会、电子世界的先知，20世纪的思想巨人。他一生勤于学问，拿了百个学位，写了十余种书 ，留下几百万珍贵的文字，代表作有《机器新娘》、《理解媒介》、《谷登堡星汉璀璨》等。他一生完成了几次重大的学术转向，从工科转向文学、哲学、文学批评、社会批评、大众文化研究、媒介研究，成为多伦多传播学派的旗手和主帅。他提出的“技术媒介决定论”、“地球村”等理论，给人文学科留下了一笔丰富的遗产。他的思想现在仍然对若干学科产生影响，尤其是对媒介研究、现代艺术和符号学产生着重大的影响。

Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Ch...(展开全部)

威廉·戈德曼（William Goldman, 1931–2018） 美国小说家、剧作家、电影编剧。出生于芝加哥，毕业于哥伦比亚大学英文系，二十六岁时出版了第一部小说《金殿》，后来进入好莱坞，为电影撰写剧本，成为横跨小说和编剧两大领域的殿堂级人物，被作家肖恩·伊根称为“ 20世纪下半叶最受欢迎的说书人之一”。他的小说代表作包括《马拉松人》《公主新娘》等，编剧代表作包括《虎豹小霸王》《总统班底》《危情十日》等。 ———————— 刘勇军 资深英语译者，湖南邵东人，闲暇时读书、译书、写作，翻译出版过《霍比特人》《纳尼亚传奇》《月亮与六便士》等多部文学作品。

威廉·戈德曼（William Goldman, 1931–2018） 美国小说家、剧作家、电影编剧。出生于芝加哥，毕业于哥伦比亚大学英文系，二十六岁时出版了第一部小说《金殿》，后来进入好莱坞，为电影撰写剧本，成为横跨小说和编剧两大领域的殿堂级人物，被作家肖恩·伊根称为“ 20世纪下半叶最受欢迎的说书人之一”。他的小说代表作包括《马拉松人》《公主新娘》等，编剧代表作包括《虎豹小霸王》《总统班底》《危情十日》等。 ———————— 刘勇军 资深英语译者，湖南邵东人，闲暇时读书、译书、写作，翻译出版过《霍比特人》《纳尼亚传奇》《月亮与六便士》等多部文学作品。

http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/dyerg/butbeaut.htm The complete review's Review: But Beautiful is a paean to jazz, a study and homage in fictional form. Dedicated to his mentor, John Berger, Dyer follows in the master's footsteps in looking for novel approaches to presenting a literary work. In his preface Dyer states: When I began writing this book I was unsure of the f...(展开全部)

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Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates visual information. Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how data and evidence turn into explanation. The book identifies excellent and effective methods for showing nearly every kind of information, suggests many new designs (including sparklines), and provides analytica...(展开全部)

Raoul Cerusier, an entirely ordinary man, seems to have changed his identity somewhere between home and the government office he is visiting to obtain a document. Between blackmailing the secretary of his former self and seducing his own wife, Raoul is confronted with the dark realisation of his true nature.

Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war, and UFOs, and was the novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece. Translated into English for the first time, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that each of them hails from a different planet: Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury...(展开全部)