From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. These twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendar...(展开全部)

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. These twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendar...(展开全部)

查爾斯．雷德（Charles Reid，1937-） 世界知名水彩大師，畫風清新自然，充分展現本身對於光影與色彩的深厚造詣，以及專業精湛的繪畫能力。生於美國紐約州劍橋村，曾於佛蒙特大學和紐約藝術學生聯盟修讀藝術。雷德獲獎無數，包括美國藝術與文學學院的柴爾德‧哈薩姆收藏獎，以及美國國家設計學院、美國水彩協會等眾多獎項。 雷德於一九八○年取得美國畫家最高殊榮，獲選為美國國家設計學院院士。其作品深受大眾喜愛，並獲得各大機構及收藏家爭相收藏，其中包含史密斯學院、黃石藝術中心、楊百翰大學、羅氏企業和美國國家設計學院。除了繪畫創作外，雷德還在全球各地教授研習班，並著有十餘本與水彩和油畫相關的書籍。 審訂者簡介 簡忠威 出生基隆。輔仁大學應用美術系畢業，台灣師範大學美術研究所西畫創作碩士，現任玄奘大學榮譽客座副教授。為首位入圍美國水彩畫協會AWS國際年展的台灣水彩...(展开全部)

"Women are abused or killed by their partners at astonishing rates- in Australia, almost 17 per cent of women over the age of fifteen - one in six - have been abused by an intimate partner. In this confronting and deeply researched account, journalist Jess Hill uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest - and most intimate - ways imaginable. She asks- What ...(展开全部)

Agatha Christie's memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s. She took enormous interest in all his excavations, and when friends asked what her strange life was like, she decided to an...(展开全部)

Two decades ago the poet Robert Bly published a book that stayed on the New York Times Bestseller list for sixty-two weeks and changed a generation of men. Based on an ancient fairy tale, Iron John be

Sometimes you get only one chance. A good introduction can create connections and open doors. A bad one can make conversation fizzle and opportunities fade. What you need is a story that tells who you are—authentically, compellingly, and concisely—and can be adapted to fit any situation.

"Someone was following her. She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom." Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's haunting new nov...(展开全部)