加布里埃尔•谢尔曼 《名利场》特约记者，《纽约》杂志国家事务编辑，NBC新闻和MSNBC的定期撰稿人。他的新闻报道常出现在《纽约时报》《新共和》《纽约观察家报》和GQ等出版物上，同时也为CNN、MSNBC、NBC、ABC以及福克斯新闻台担任新闻评论员。

加布里埃尔•谢尔曼 《名利场》特约记者，《纽约》杂志国家事务编辑，NBC新闻和MSNBC的定期撰稿人。他的新闻报道常出现在《纽约时报》《新共和》《纽约观察家报》和GQ等出版物上，同时也为CNN、MSNBC、NBC、ABC以及福克斯新闻台担任新闻评论员。

How can a voice whose source is never seen--such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho--have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail to link bodies to their voices, and how do such great stylists of sound film as Jacques Tati, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Marguerite Duras deploy the power of the voice? In this brillia...(展开全部)

In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. These pieces, collected here, reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity.

He was the greatest tenor of his day and probably of all time. Trained naturally in singing Neapolitan ballads, Enrico Caruso (1873–1921) achieved a vocal quality often described as "celestial" or "golden." His breath control was such that he could deliver the longest phrase without any suggestion of difficulty, while his superb enunciation and an intense quality of pathos in h...(展开全部)

A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"--the abil...(展开全部)

A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"--the abil...(展开全部)

Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers in the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, the singers occupied a celebrity status on the operatic stage. Constructed through surgical alteration and further modified by rigorous training, castrati inhabited human bodies that had been “mechanized” to produce sounds in ways that unmechanized bodies could...(展开全部)

A classic text for theatre and film it has sold 100,000 copies in its first edition.

A classic text for theatre and film it has sold 100,000 copies in its first edition.