David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape in 1977 with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original and imaginative directors at work in contemporary cinema. Over the course of his career, he has remained true to a vision of the innocent lost in darkness and confusion, balancing hallucination and surrealism with a sense of Americana that is as pure and simpl...(展开全部)

Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the sa...(展开全部)

Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the sa...(展开全部)

Now fully updated, LYNCH ON LYNCH describes the career of a cinematic genius who has continued to astonish film-goers with the lovely and life-affirming The Straight Story and the luxurious dread of the Academy Award-nominated Mulholland Drive.

Stephen Shore (b. 1947) is a true artistic innovator whose work has opened up new frontiers for contemporary photography. His photographs of everyday American scenes unveiled the exceptional beauty to be found in banality, at the same time laying the groundwork for contemporary photographic genres such as the diaristic snapshot and the monumentalized landscape. This monograph o...(展开全部)

--作者简介---- 皮埃尔·米雄(Pierre Michon） 1945年3月28日出生于法国克勒兹省(Creuse)的一个贫困山村。父母是当地的小学教师。他出生两年后，父亲离开了家庭。米雄后来在克莱蒙费朗大学学习文学和戏剧。37岁开始发表作品。1984年，叙述《微渺人生》获得法国文化电台奖。在之后四十多年的写作生涯中，他获得运众多国际奖项，如2010年获彼特拉克文学奖，2015年获玛格丽特·尤瑟纳尔奖，2017年获意大利诺尼诺国际文学奖，2019年获弗兰茨·卡夫卡文学奖，2022年获法国国家图书馆奖，2024年获兰佩杜萨文学奖。其作品《十一人》获法兰西学院小说大奖，《国王的身体》和《神父》同时获法国十二月文学奖。如今，皮埃尔·米雄被认为是法国当代最重要的作家之一。 ---译者简介--- 田嘉伟，华东师范大学国际汉语文化学院讲师、明园晨晖学者，巴黎...(展开全部)

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard...(展开全部)

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella,...(展开全部)

Miss Jane Marple's passion for gossip leads to the investigation of a local man's murder. The victim was not liked in the least, and his death isn't raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are.

斯蒂芬・霍金（ Stephen Hawking），著名的理论物理学家和宇宙学家，他于1942年1月8日出生于英国牛津，这一天正好是伽利略逝世300周年。8岁时，因父亲工作的原因而举家搬迁至伦敦以北20公里的小镇艾尔本斯，他在当地完成中学教育后，进人牛津大学主修物理。后来在夏玛（Dennis Sciama）的指导下，取得剑桥大学博士学位，1974年，成为皇家学院当时最年轻的院士。1979年，接任剑桥大学的卢卡斯数学讲座教授。（此头衔象征着无上的学术地位数学家艾萨克・贝罗是第一任，其弟子牛顿接任他为第二任，霍金为第17任。） 霍金主要的学术成就包括“霍金辐射”与“无边界宇宙模型”。目前，他所领导的剑桥大学的应用数学与理论物理系的“相对论与重力”小组，除了研究他所研究的早期宇宙外，也包括宇宙演化至今的现象，并参与了欧洲太空总署的普朗克探测卫星的计划。