唐纳德·斯波托已出版有十一部作品，其中包括劳伦斯·奥利弗、阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克、田纳西·威廉斯和玛琳·黛德丽的国际畅销传记。他获得了福特汉姆大学的博士学位，长期以来一直在世界各地从事教学工作，现今在纽约和欧洲两地居住。 译者简介： 徐海幈，兰州大学新闻学专业硕士学位，先后在《中国新闻周刊》、《三联生活周刊》、《时代人物周报》等杂志工作，在瑞典的隆德大学获得影视制作和亚洲研究（印度方向）两个专业的硕士学位。从2011年开始，以自由译者的身份开始从事图书翻译工作，迄今为止翻译了《丘吉尔传》（罗伊•詹金斯）、《叶卡捷琳娜大帝：通往权力之路》（罗伯特·K.迈锡）等五十余种图书。

Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe DiMaggio.

玛丽莲·梦露 Marilyn Monroe，1926—1962 1926年生于洛杉矶，在多个寄养家庭和孤儿院里度过童年。1940年代成为海报模特并进入电影行业，出演过《夜阑人未静》《豆蔻年华》《乱点鸳鸯谱》《绅士爱美人》等影片。她创造的金发女郎形象成为20世纪最广为人知和经久不衰的银幕形象。梦露曾获金球奖在内的诸多荣誉，却在年仅36岁时因过量服用药物离世。 【译者】李文心：本科毕业于同济大学英美文学专业，硕士毕业于英国帝国理工学院商学院。独立戏剧制作人，自由译者。

Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: she was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No previous biographer has recognised - much less attempted to analyse - most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has. Since Marilyn's pre...(展开全部)

He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed is an original book about an original thinker which applies - for the first time...(展开全部)

Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'. "Contemporary Thinkers Reframed" instead uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas.Short, contemporary and accessible, these lively books utilise act...(展开全部)

Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most provocative and important yet least understood of contemporary thinkers. This book challenges this popular image and re-examines Adorno as a utopian philosopher who believed authentic art could save the world. Adorno Reframed is not only a c...(展开全部)

A brilliant state-of-the-art report on how the landmark theory of multiple intelligences is radically changing our understanding of education and human development. Since its original description in Frames of Mind (1983, 1993), the theory of multiple intelligences has taken its place as one of the seminal ideas of the twentieth century. Further explicated in Gardner's 1993 boo...(展开全部)

The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siecle Europe has been moving back to the nation-state, most spectacularly with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia into a sc...(展开全部)