布鲁诺·麦克唐纳（Bruno MacDonald）是一位音乐专家，曾参与编撰《有生之年非听不可的1001张唱片》和《有生之年非听不可的1001首歌》。他还编辑了《乐队伙伴、歌迷、朋友和劲敌眼中的平克·弗洛伊德》（Pink Floyd: Through the Eyes of the Band, Its Fans, Friends and Foes）一书，并与罗伯特·迪默里合著《摇滚天堂》（Rock & Roll Heaven）。他还为《摇滚指南》（The Rough Guide to Rock）、《吉尼斯热门单曲》（Guinness Hit Singles）、《摇滚百科》（Rockpedia）等书籍和《电台时代》（Radio Times）、《Q》、《唱片收藏家》（Record Collector）等各大音乐杂志供稿。

The story of any great band includes walk-on parts by scores of musicians who left the scene before fame and fortune came calling. All diehard fans love to trace the connections and lineups of their favorite bands, including the unexpected lucky breaks, the name changes, and all the missed chances before they hit the big time. Rock Connections brings you the fascinating histo...(展开全部)

How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press? How did the waterwheel evolve into the computer? How did the arrival of the cannon lead eventually to the development of movies? In this highly acclaimed and bestselling book, James Burke brilliantly examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the...(展开全部)

Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details...(展开全部)

Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details...(展开全部)

Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details...(展开全部)

Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details...(展开全部)

阿特·霍布森（Art Hobson）于1934年生于费城。他家于1946年搬迁到堪萨斯州曼哈顿城，在那里他发展出对长号和爵士乐的热情。1955年他从登顿（Denton）的北德州大学获得音乐学士学位，并在那里参加了著名的一点钟实验乐队演出。1955年至1957年，他应征入伍并在美国陆军乐队和驻欧美军第七军交响管弦乐队服务，后来在纽约市花了几个月时间想找一份稳定的音乐工作。他决定，换到另一个领域可能更好些。

This book is a map of the work of Gilles Deleuze--the man Michel Foucault would call the "only real philosophical intelligence in France." It is not only for professional philosophers, but for those engaged in what Deleuze called the "nonphilosophical understanding of philosophy" in other domains, such as the arts, architecture, design, urbanism, new technologies, and politics....(展开全部)

In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to...(展开全部)