In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus Pistorum) is that book. Here one finds Miller’s characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celebration of the good life. From Marcelle to Tania, to Alexandra, to Anna, and from...(展开全部)

The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Acting as a kind of father figure, M. Gustave leads the resourceful Zero on a journey that involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissanc...(展开全部)

Budapest ostroma a II. világháború egyik leghosszabb és legvéresebb várostroma volt. A főváros határában az első szovjet páncélos megjelenése és a budai Vár elfoglalása között 102 nap telt el. Ezzel szemben Berlin két hét, Bécs hat nap alatt elesett, Párizs és a többi európai főváros - Varsó kivételével - nem is vált hadszintérré. A legkitartóbb német helyőrségek is, mint a kön...(展开全部)

Budapest ostroma a II. világháború egyik leghosszabb és legvéresebb várostroma volt. A főváros határában az első szovjet páncélos megjelenése és a budai Vár elfoglalása között 102 nap telt el. Ezzel szemben Berlin két hét, Bécs hat nap alatt elesett, Párizs és a többi európai főváros - Varsó kivételével - nem is vált hadszintérré. A legkitartóbb német helyőrségek is, mint a kön...(展开全部)

Wes Anderson’s eighth feature film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is the fullest expression to date of Anderson’s varied thematic and stylistic idiosyncrasies and influences—a meticulously crafted, visually resplendent matryoshka-doll caper set primarily in an alternate-history version of 1930s Europe. This supplementary, one-volume companion to The Wes Anderson Collection (Abrams ...(展开全部)

The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann.

Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas, but perhaps this pride is misplaced. Perhaps ideas have us. In this book, science writer and documentary filmmaker Jonnie Hughes investigates the evolution of ideas, taking a look at how they seem to have lives of their own. Adopting the role of a cultural Charles Darwin, Hughes travels across th...(展开全部)

Why do some ideas spread, while others die off? Does human culture have its very own “survival of the fittest”? And if so, does that explain why our species is so different from the rest of life on Earth? Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas, but perhaps this pride is misplaced. Perhaps ideas have us. After all, ideas do appear to h...(展开全部)

This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.