"Shah of Shahs" depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power - a vain hope that prov...(展开全部)

Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the every day. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects assume extraordinary powers. A blind intruder visits a dying man -- and saves his life, with a kiss. A woman receives a phone call from her husband. Her late husband. In the emotional aftermath of h...(展开全部)

Jack and Annie are whisked all the way back to the Ice Age in this compelling Magic Tree House time-travel adventure where they meet woolly mammoths, cave people...and fierce sabertooth tigers!

Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects lef...(展开全部)

A Scots Quair is a trilogy of novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934). Together, they trace the life of heroine Chris Guthrie as she grows from a child into adulthood through the early twentieth century.

A Scots Quair is a trilogy of novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934). Together, they trace the life of heroine Chris Guthrie as she grows from a child into adulthood through the early twentieth century.

In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers. On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets Celine, a young French woman. They are immediately a...(展开全部)

★榮獲第19屆「電撃小說大賞」金賞！ ★榮獲2014年「這本輕小說真厲害！」第10名！ 自從歷經那份感動後，過了約莫一年── 史上最強！令人婉惜的女主角回來了!! 早已意外身亡的美少女夢前光，不知為何每隔一天便會佔據外表凶惡卻富有女人緣的男子坂本秋月的身體， 兩人過著雙心同體的同居生活。 小光有如龍捲風過境般，三不五時掀起事端；只能一直被牽著鼻子走的秋月，也漸漸習慣了這樣的生活。 但在兩人相識一年後，她留下這段話，從世界上永遠地消失了…… 「坂本同學你要露出笑容，不要哭泣。這是我最後的願望。」 然而！這個打不死的少女小光為所有人準備了笑淚交織的驚喜──為您獻上番外短篇故事。

This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created - the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show - and it t...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。