Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold! And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and di...(展开全部)

Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold! And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and di...(展开全部)

这本书的作者Edward Hollis是爱丁堡艺术学院(Edinburgh College of Art)的讲师，书中的13个故事，是用诗化的语言，散文式的叙述方式，将述建筑与历史文化之间的联系。 这13个故事的起点是雅典的 Parthenon 神殿，这曾经是雅典人献给城市守护神雅典娜的殿堂(parthenos 意为“处女”，指雅典娜这位“处女女神”)，这个被称为是“最完美”的建筑，在建成之后，便是一个逐渐被毁坏的过程，所以第一章的标题就是 In Which a Virgin is Ruined，在经过马其顿人的洗劫、罗马皇帝的掠夺(神殿内的雅典娜金身塑像被搬到了君士坦丁堡)、神圣同盟的炮击、直到英国人Lord Elgin 把神殿大理石带回英国，神殿曾被改造成教堂、清真寺、以后又出现破坏性的“修复”等等，似乎每个人都想从这个完美的“处女”身上掏一点东...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry’s revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intrig...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and...(展开全部)

作者简介 亨特•S. 汤普森（Hunter S. Thompson），美国著名记者、作家，具有广泛影响力的政治评论家，美国“新新闻”代表人物，《滚石》头牌作家，也是其中最传奇的一位。 一生写作无数，主要作品包括《朗姆酒日记》《地狱天使》《惧恨拉斯维加斯》《猎鲨记》《 爽过性爱》《恐惧王国》和《无望者之歌》等等，是美国六七十年代亚文化的重要推动者，作品中有多部被改编成电影。 2005年2月20日，汤普森在家中吞枪自杀，根据遗愿，他的骨灰被放入礼炮中打向夜空。 译者简介 经雷，曾任中国电影出版社外国编辑室编辑，现为纽约时报中文网翻译编辑。

作者简介 亨特•S. 汤普森（Hunter S. Thompson），美国著名记者、作家，具有广泛影响力的政治评论家，美国“新新闻”代表人物，《滚石》头牌作家，也是其中最传奇的一位。 一生写作无数，主要作品包括《朗姆酒日记》《地狱天使》《惧恨拉斯维加斯》《猎鲨记》《 爽过性爱》《恐惧王国》和《无望者之歌》等等，是美国六七十年代亚文化的重要推动者，作品中有多部被改编成电影。 2005年2月20日，汤普森在家中吞枪自杀，根据遗愿，他的骨灰被放入礼炮中打向夜空。 译者简介 经雷，曾任中国电影出版社外国编辑室编辑，现为纽约时报中文网翻译编辑。

A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to ...(展开全部)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universa...(展开全部)