Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

亚伦·德肖维茨是美国的一位广为人知的辩护律师，也是著名畅销书的作者，著有《厚颜无耻》(Chutzpah)、《颠覆命运》(Reversal of Fortune)、《最佳辩护》(The Best Defemse)等作品。他担任过《耶鲁法学论丛》(Yale Law Journal)的主编、1962年自耶鲁法学院毕业。二十八岁时即成为哈佛法学院教授，是这所名校有史以来最年轻的教授。德肖维茨目前仍任教于哈佛法学院。 高忠义 台湾大学法律系专业，译著：《脑内犯罪惊奇》、《刑事侦讯与自白》(商周)。 侯荷婷 一九七七年生，一九九八年毕业于台湾大学外文系，现为美国麻州芬明罕大学国际教育研究所硕士班学生。曾服务于中外文学月刊社、通讯公司的创意企划与翻译，并从事短篇小说的创作与公关稿及广告文案的写作。

Absorbing Roman poet Ovid's tales of transformation in "Metamorphoses "and adding his own dash of art-historical figuration and contemporary pop culture, Mark Ryden broaches new terrain with "The Tree Show," Arcadian Gothic" might hint at the nature of this new work, and fans of Ryden will find familiar preoccupations in these new paintings, drawings and sculptures--made since ...(展开全部)

show/off #2 magazine Show/Off #2 is a unique magazine about the Fashion Department, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen. It features highlights from the Fashion Department: the end of year collections of the Master students, works by the Bachelor Year students, information about various projects and workshops... Show/Off #2 is a collector’s item made with ...(展开全部)

Some 40 nationalities participate in the courses of the Fashion Department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, under the watchful leadership of Walter van Beirendonck. This magazine reflects the wide and exciting array of fashion that is created by such a diverse collection of participants. Full-page, colour photographs document recent fashion collections produced by th...(展开全部)

Charles Darwin’s masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly SignatureReviewed by Jonah LehrerRichard Dawkins begins The Greatest Show on Earth with a short history of his writing career. He explains that all of his previous books have naïvely assumed the fact of evolution, which meant that he never got around to laying out the evidence that it [evolution] is true. This shouldn't be too surprising: science is an ed...(展开全部)

In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core. Dar...(展开全部)

With this tremendous follow-up to his blockbuster The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins takesadvocates of intelligent design by the scruff of the neck and unfolds the evidence for evolution with characteristicpanache.In 2008, a gallup poll showed that 44% of Americans polled believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a PewForum poll in the sam...(展开全部)