This is a companion volume to The Arrival, comprising 50 pages of my preliminary sketches, research materials and commentary on the evolution of this project. It is currently part of a special boxed edition of The Arrival produced by Hachette Australia, from September 2010. For further information, visit the Hachette Website.

The autobiographical novel of a journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.

A moving and beautiful novel of the transformation of rural England. Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, the Enigma of Arrival is the story of a young Indian from the Crown Colony of Trinidad who arrives in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finds himself as a writer. As he does so, he also observes t...(展开全部)

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love,...(展开全部)

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love,...(展开全部)

Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and make plain the factors such a theory can and cannot involve. In the course of constructing such a theory, he seeks to demonstrate the relationship between philosophy and art, as well as...(展开全部)

Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever. In The Art of Statistics, David ...(展开全部)

David Spiegelhalter is a British statistician and Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He was also elected as President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2017-18. In addition to presenting documentaries on BBC4, he has appeared on Infinite Monkey Cage, BBC Horizon, and the Life Scientific...(展开全部)

米沃什，一九一一年生于立陶宛，二战时参加了华沙的抵抗纳粹的运动，战后作为波兰文化专员在纽约、华盛顿和巴黎工作。一九五一年出走巴黎，一九六〇年到美国加州大学伯克利分校任教，是美国人文艺术学院会员之一。一九八〇年获诺贝尔文学奖。二〇〇四年去世。米沃什的诗歌注重内容和感受，广阔而深邃地映射了二十世纪东欧、西欧和美国的动荡历史和命运。其主要著作除了诗歌外，还有《乌尔罗地》《路边狗》《被禁锢的头脑》等随笔和思想性著作，被视为二十世纪东欧Z重要的思想家之一。

This major prose work, originally published in English in 1985, is both a moving spiritual self-portrait and an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our modern afflictions. A man who was raised a Catholic in rural Lithuania, lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland, and emerged, first in Europe and then in America, as one of our most important men of letters, speaks here ...(展开全部)