Review 'Originally a literary biographer, Robb switched trades three years ago in The Discovery of France, an offbeat study of la France profonde. Now he turns his attention to the capital, in an equally innovative chronicle... An exceptional achievement' —Guardian 'Graham Robb wrote a superb book about France two years ago, The Discovery of France, and now follows it up with a...(展开全部)

This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten.A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular woman catches his...(展开全部)

“India is like Wonderland. In this other universe everyone seems mad and everything is upside down, back to front and infuriatingly bizarre . . .”In her twenties Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution, and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India -- and for love -- she scr...(展开全部)

This is the classic history of the Paris Commune, now republished on the occasion of the 140th anniversary with a new preface by the writer and publisher Eric Hazan. The author, Lissagaray, had been a participant in the Commune and, after its suppression, worked for twenty-five years interviewing the survivors in exile and consulting the available documents.

六位数字艺术家创建了Steambot工作室，在本书中为我们构建一条科幻史诗般的旅程。在此书编辑的同时，他们制作了一套同步DVD教程。在这两套资料中充分展示他们的发展历程和丰富的开发经验，他们的业务来自EA，Activision,ubsoft,Epic,Digital Dimension, Canol Plus等大牌厂商，Steambot的成员在这里创建了一系列从原始到现实，乃至未来的世界观。包括运输，社会的宏观构想。

Should he follow the sound of the drums?<br > He could hear it all beginning again: the nervous rattle of<br > practicing drums， the shuffle that precedes the parade. The sound<br > was almost irresistible， because in American politics it is when the<br > parade is falling in that it is most exciting. He had followed those<br > sounds for twenty years， across the cou...(展开全部)

Should he follow the sound of the drums?<br > He could hear it all beginning again: the nervous rattle of<br > practicing drums， the shuffle that precedes the parade. The sound<br > was almost irresistible， because in American politics it is when the<br > parade is falling in that it is most exciting. He had followed those<br > sounds for twenty years， across the cou...(展开全部)

This sweeping survey of the artistic achievements of Himalayan culture is the first major exhibition to include objects from all the major religions of the region. Created to accompany the landmark art exhibition that will include almost two hundred of the finest works of art created between the sixth and nineteenth centuries in India, Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan, this book explor...(展开全部)

汤姆·斯坦迪奇（Tom Standage） 拥有牛津大学工程与计算机科学学位，是《经济学人》（The Economist）的数字编辑，负责网站、手机、平版计算机和电子书页面。 他也为多家知名报纸章杂志撰写文章，包括《连线》杂志（Wired）、《卫报》（Guardian）和《纽约时报》（the New York Times）等。 著有《六个瓶子里的历史》（A History of the World in Six Glasses）、《维多利亚时代的网络》（The Victorian Internet）、《土耳其人》（The Turk）和《海王星档案》（The Neptune File）。目前与妻女住在伦敦。

汤姆·斯坦迪奇（Tom Standage） 拥有牛津大学工程与计算机科学学位，是《经济学人》（The Economist）的数字编辑，负责网站、手机、平版计算机和电子书页面。 他也为多家知名报纸章杂志撰写文章，包括《连线》杂志（Wired）、《卫报》（Guardian）和《纽约时报》（the New York Times）等。 著有《六个瓶子里的历史》（A History of the World in Six Glasses）、《维多利亚时代的网络》（The Victorian Internet）、《土耳其人》（The Turk）和《海王星档案》（The Neptune File）。目前与妻女住在伦敦。