Stephen Shore (b. 1947) is a true artistic innovator whose work has opened up new frontiers for contemporary photography. His photographs of everyday American scenes unveiled the exceptional beauty to be found in banality, at the same time laying the groundwork for contemporary photographic genres such as the diaristic snapshot and the monumentalized landscape. This monograph o...(展开全部)

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)

斯蒂芬・霍金（ Stephen Hawking），著名的理论物理学家和宇宙学家，他于1942年1月8日出生于英国牛津，这一天正好是伽利略逝世300周年。8岁时，因父亲工作的原因而举家搬迁至伦敦以北20公里的小镇艾尔本斯，他在当地完成中学教育后，进人牛津大学主修物理。后来在夏玛（Dennis Sciama）的指导下，取得剑桥大学博士学位，1974年，成为皇家学院当时最年轻的院士。1979年，接任剑桥大学的卢卡斯数学讲座教授。（此头衔象征着无上的学术地位数学家艾萨克・贝罗是第一任，其弟子牛顿接任他为第二任，霍金为第17任。） 霍金主要的学术成就包括“霍金辐射”与“无边界宇宙模型”。目前，他所领导的剑桥大学的应用数学与理论物理系的“相对论与重力”小组，除了研究他所研究的早期宇宙外，也包括宇宙演化至今的现象，并参与了欧洲太空总署的普朗克探测卫星的计划。

斯蒂芬・霍金（ Stephen Hawking），著名的理论物理学家和宇宙学家，他于1942年1月8日出生于英国牛津，这一天正好是伽利略逝世300周年。8岁时，因父亲工作的原因而举家搬迁至伦敦以北20公里的小镇艾尔本斯，他在当地完成中学教育后，进人牛津大学主修物理。后来在夏玛（Dennis Sciama）的指导下，取得剑桥大学博士学位，1974年，成为皇家学院当时最年轻的院士。1979年，接任剑桥大学的卢卡斯数学讲座教授。（此头衔象征着无上的学术地位数学家艾萨克・贝罗是第一任，其弟子牛顿接任他为第二任，霍金为第17任。） 霍金主要的学术成就包括“霍金辐射”与“无边界宇宙模型”。目前，他所领导的剑桥大学的应用数学与理论物理系的“相对论与重力”小组，除了研究他所研究的早期宇宙外，也包括宇宙演化至今的现象，并参与了欧洲太空总署的普朗克探测卫星的计划。

From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. Bringing detailed analysis of adaptations and literature together, Browning examines these films in their own right and suggests why they succeeded in scaring viewers, as well as why they often fail. The book rejects previous attempts to make the films and books fi...(展开全部)

This heartwarming story of how a little tiger named Leo bloomed is told by bestselling author Robert Kraus and is accompanied by the wonderfully bold illustrations of Jose Aruego. "Captivating and rollicking." --The Horn Book Leo isn't reading, or writing, or drawing, or even speaking, and his father is concerned. But Leo's mother isn't. She knows her son will do all those thin...(展开全部)

Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left be...(展开全部)

Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left be...(展开全部)

This book explores the development of late 19th century study societies in China against the context of the decline of the imperial Qing government and its control on ideological production, widespread social unrest, and intrusions by Western imperialist states. The author uncovers the history of civil society activism in China by examining the study societies in Shanghai, Beij...(展开全部)