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Aaron Benham--professor, novelist, friend, mentor, family man, and sometime idealist--is supposed to be working on his new novel, The Hair of Harold Roux. But instead, tormented by the chaos of his present and the demons of his past, he is riding his motorcycle too fast, drinking too much, and thinking too often and deeply. Through Aaron's rich, if angst-ridden, mind we discove...(展开全部)

It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands over an accursed marsh (...)'. H.P. Lovecraft was perhaps the greatest twentieth century practitioner of the horror story, introducing to the genre a new evil, monstrous, pervasive and unconquerable. At the heart of these three stories are terrors unthinka...(展开全部)

This book analyses the development of Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour.

In this first book about the rather young discipline, the author consolidated its key principles, so that they can be consulted, referenced and utilised by both design students and professionals. Only when the perfect balance between visual beauty and functional performance is achieved, can a product provide a consistent and successful user experience. The discipline of CMF des...(展开全部)

Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was - as it remains for all Muslims - the colour of Paradise, reserved for the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading net...(展开全部)

Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was - as it remains for all Muslims - the colour of Paradise, reserved for the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading net...(展开全部)

洛夫克拉夫特研究专家唐纳德•R•伯勒森称这个故事为“他的风格和概念上最好的短篇小说之一”。他将恐怖延伸到宇宙。由奥斯卡影帝尼古拉斯•凯奇领衔主演的同名影片2019年9月在多伦多电影节首映，2020年1月美国开始上映。 故事开始于一位来自波士顿的不知名测量员，以第一人称的视角转述的形式。这位测量员为了帮助建立一个当地的蓄水库，来到阿卡姆当地进行调查。之后通过当地人的讲述，他逐渐揭开了一段尘封历史和可怕的秘密——关于被阿卡姆当地人避之不及的一处被称为“枯萎荒原”的地方。 对那个所谓的“枯萎荒原”，当地人三缄其口。所以测量员无法从镇上居民那里获得任何信息，但是他还是获悉一个叫老阿米•皮尔斯的人知道详细的内容。于是这位测量员就找到了一位阿米•皮尔斯——他看起来确实像当地居民所说，是个看起来疯癫的老人。经过努力老阿米•皮尔斯给测量员讲述了自己的一段个人经历，以...(展开全部)

Marco Santagata’s Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the world’s supreme poets from many angles—writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante’s medieval world, untangles a complex web of family and political relationships for English readers, and shows how the composition of the Comm...(展开全部)

Marco Santagata’s Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the world’s supreme poets from many angles—writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante’s medieval world, untangles a complex web of family and political relationships for English readers, and shows how the composition of the Comm...(展开全部)