America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made. For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies c...(展开全部)

这是一本伟大电影的指南，为银幕增光添彩！ 《电影书》（The Movie Book）将推出全新版本，这是一本包罗万象的指南，反映了电影的历史，从好莱坞黑白电影的黄金时代到国际艺术之家和当代杰作。这本关于电影的奇幻书是100部地震片的详细指南，为每个人提供了探索和喜爱的东西。 所以，准备好爆米花，坐下来，我们将带您踏上一段电影般的时光之旅，在本书中： -介绍了100多部有史以来伟大的电影及其背后的想法、主题和情节 -以电影中的标志性引用和评论家的引用为特色 -电影剧照和海报使电影栩栩如生。 -发人深省的图形探索了一些特色电影背后的中心思想和叙事。 -按时间顺序组织，引导读者轻松了解电影历史 《电影书》充满了华丽的剧照、精辟的语录和琐事细节，为您带来了对自己喜爱的电影的新见解，并向您介绍了世界各地鲜为人知的名著。 从20世纪早期的重要幻想家，到60年代和...(展开全部)

It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them?and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, available for the first time in paperback. These are men and women who changed our perception of the w...(展开全部)

弗•司各特•菲茨拉德(F.Scott Fitzgerald ，1896——1940)是二十世纪美国著名作家,"迷惘一代"的代表作家,短暂一生中只写有为数不多的几部作品，《了不起的盖茨比》是作家最具代表性的作品。 Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. This novel is a summary of the "roaring twenties", ...(展开全部)

F.R. Leavis was born in 1895 in Cambridge, where he would live and teach for most of the rest of his life. He volunteered as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War, and was badly gassed on the Western Front. Appointed Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1930, he remained there for the next thirty years, often at odds with the University establish...(展开全部)

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.

"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!" THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the R...(展开全部)

作者简介： 布莱恩•费根，加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉分校人类学专业荣休教授，早年一直在中亚和东亚从事田野考古工作。他是世界公认的考古学大家，著作有：The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300–1850 (2001), Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans (2013), The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present and Future of RisingSea Levels (2013)。 译者简介： 李志鹏，中国社会科学院考古研究所副研究员，1999 年进入中国社会科学院考古研究所工作至今；2009 年毕业于中国社会科学院研究生院考...(展开全部)

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it’s time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime—a young, disheveled squar...(展开全部)

Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état he end...(展开全部)