丹尼尔·巴伦博伊姆（Daniel Barenboim，1942～），以色列钢琴家、指挥家。1942年11月15日生于阿根廷的布宜诺斯艾利斯。7岁登台演出。曾随E.菲舍尔、I.马克耶维奇、N.布朗热学钢琴、指挥与作曲。1956年以皇家爱乐乐团独奏家的身份在英国首次公演。1957年1月，在斯托科夫斯基指挥下，于卡内基大厅演出普罗科菲耶夫的《第一钢琴协奏曲》。此后，进行了一系列的巡回演出，获得世界声誉。1962年起从事指挥，1964～1975年担任英国室内乐团指挥，1975～1989年转任巴黎管弦乐队指挥，1991年至2004年担任芝加哥交响乐团首席指挥，1992年任柏林国家歌剧院音乐指导。曾先后指挥过柏林爱乐乐团、以色列爱乐乐团、费城管弦乐团、纽约爱乐乐团、伦敦交响乐团、英国室内乐团等。 曲目涉猎广泛。作为钢琴家，尤擅演奏贝多芬、莫扎特作品，以浪漫热情服...(展开全部)

Eric Hobsbawm's works have had a nearly incalculable effect across generations of readers and students, influencing more than the practice of history but also the perception of it. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, of second-generation British parents, Hobsbawm was orphaned at age fourteen in 1931. Living with an uncle in Berlin, he experienced the full force of world economic depress...(展开全部)

Eric Hobsbawm's works have had a nearly incalculable effect across generations of readers and students, influencing more than the practice of history but also the perception of it. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, of second-generation British parents, Hobsbawm was orphaned at age fourteen in 1931. Living with an uncle in Berlin, he experienced the full force of world economic depress...(展开全部)

A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style elicits particular kinds of moral judgments and subjective preferences that turn rea...(展开全部)

十九世纪英国自然文学大师理查德·杰弗里斯，拥有最纯粹的自然的心灵，血管里流淌着着橡树、榆树和白蜡树的树液，以及自然界飞禽走兽的血液。杰弗里斯一生创作有小说散文十余部，他笔下的乡村是他精神的领地，灵魂的净土，他的全部生命都在于体验和描述自然，他的成就对后世的自然文学创作影响深远。

十九世纪英国自然文学大师理查德·杰弗里斯，拥有最纯粹的自然的心灵，血管里流淌着着橡树、榆树和白蜡树的树液，以及自然界飞禽走兽的血液。杰弗里斯一生创作有小说散文十余部，他笔下的乡村是他精神的领地，灵魂的净土，他的全部生命都在于体验和描述自然，他的成就对后世的自然文学创作影响深远。

With an Introduction by Henry Williamson. 'Marvellous pictures of country sights in England. A volume to be read and re-read, and each time we think with a keener interest. Unsurpassed in power of observation and sympathy with natural objects by anything that has appeared since the days of Gilbert White' Daily News

Native life in South Africa is one of South Africa's great political books. First published in 1916, it was first and foremost a response to the Native's land Act of 1913, and was written by one of the most gifted and influential writers and journalists of his generation. Native life in South Africa provides an account of the origins of this crucially important piece of legisla...(展开全部)