In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery... The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. The Confessions of Nat Turner is nar...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties...(展开全部)

威廉•斯泰隆(1925一2006) 1925年生于弗吉尼亚州，毕业于杜克大学。他是美国历史上最伟大的作家之一。1953年，长篇小说首作《在黑暗中躺下》获得了罗马美国学院和美国艺术与文学学院共同颁发的罗马奖。1968年，《纳特•特纳的自白》为其赢得了普利策文学奖。1980年,《苏菲的选择》获得了美国国家图书奖。他还著有《纵火焚屋》《静静的灰尘》《看得见的黑暗》等作品。1996年，在F.S.菲茨杰拉德诞辰100周年之际，威廉•斯泰隆获得了首届菲茨杰拉德奖。

［英］威廉·冈特（William Gaunt，1900—1980年）著，英国艺术家、艺术史家。他在19世纪艺术方面著述颇丰。

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chro...(展开全部)

Dr. Peter Drahos is Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of South Australia. Dr. Peter Drahos is the Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property in the Intellectual Property Unit in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London. He holds degrees in law, politics, and philosophy. He has taught in the Department of Politics at the Universit...(展开全部)

What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With "Troublesome Words", journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage and spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work wit...(展开全部)

Exploring the development, variety and innovation of the landscape oil sketch this book is generously illustrated with many masterpieces of nineteenth-century British landscape painting. Accomapnies a major UK touring exhibition.

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the i...(展开全部)