In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching. Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. Through his long and distinguished car...(展开全部)

唐纳德·里奇（Donald Richie），1924年出生于美国，日本电影、文化专家。 1947年，唐纳德·里奇随军来到日本东京。很快，他就对日本文化、特别是日本电影产生了浓厚的兴趣，并开始尝试写作影评。1948年，他相识了被誉为“日本电影教母”的川喜多夫人，两人在向西方世界介绍和推广日本电影的过程中，结下了长期而深厚的友情。也正是通过她的介绍，里奇结识了当时名满日本影坛的电影大师小津安二郎。 自1953年起，唐纳德·里奇定期为《日本时报》撰写影评。1959年，他出版了《日本电影：艺术与工业》，这也是第一部用英语介绍日本电影的专著。之后，里奇发表了大量介绍、论述日本电影及社会的专著与文章，开始了其长达半个多世纪的日本文化“情缘”。

The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, helped ignite Western interest in the Japanese cinema. Seven Samurai and Yojimbo remain enormously popular both in Japan and abr...(展开全部)

Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant, disturbing, mordantly funny, and wise, Karp's interviews cause us to marvel at the courage of depressed people in deali...(展开全部)

查理斯西弗史坦(Charles Silverstein) 是纽约市的私人执业心理医师，也是纽约大学医学院精神科的指导员，以及在‘Human Identity’学院(一家非营利的同志咨商中心)担任咨商师监督。他建立了两个非营利同志咨商机构，并为《同性恋日志》(Journal of Homosexuality)的首任编辑；他也对涉及同性恋主题的心理学文本有诸多贡献。 菲里斯皮卡诺(Felice Picano) 处女作入围海明威大奖的最后角逐名单，出版小说、诗作、传记二十册。他与‘紫色管毛笔’(Violet Quill)俱乐部成员被视作现代同性恋文学的创始者，创立了两家出版社：海马出版社(SeaHorse Press)、纽约同志出版社(Gay Press of New York)。得奖着作包括《Like People in History》、《The Bo...(展开全部)

In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, now cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008-9 financial crisis. With high stock and bond prices in the United States, and rising housing prices in m...(展开全部)

This monograph covers the recent major advances in various areas of set theory. From the reviews: "One of the classical textbooks and reference books in set theory...The present 'Third Millennium' edition...is a whole new book. In three parts the author offers us what in his view every young set theorist should learn and master...This well-written book promises to influence the...(展开全部)

This monograph covers the recent major advances in various areas of set theory. From the reviews: "One of the classical textbooks and reference books in set theory...The present 'Third Millennium' edition...is a whole new book. In three parts the author offers us what in his view every young set theorist should learn and master...This well-written book promises to influence the...(展开全部)

Since its original publication in 1983, Evolution: The History of an Idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This new edition has been entirely rewritten to take account of the latest work of historians and scientists. The sequence of chapters has been reconstructed in ...(展开全部)