"The Sea of Fertility is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's" National Review The story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment, The Temple of Dawn powerfully dramatises the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the post-war era. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Ba...(展开全部)

"The Sea of Fertility is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's" National Review The story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment, The Temple of Dawn powerfully dramatises the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the post-war era. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Ba...(展开全部)

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha dist...(展开全部)

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha dist...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures of distance stand at the very foundation of everything we do, so much so that we take them for granted. Yet, this has not always been...(展开全部)

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沃尔特・阿尔瓦雷斯（Walter Alvarez），美国国家科学院院士，美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校地质学和地球物理学教授。其父路易斯・阿尔瓦雷斯（Luis Alvarez）是该校物理学教授，曾因发现许多亚原子粒子而荣获1968年诺贝尔物理学奖。在很大程度上，查明天体撞击地球如何导致恐龙灭绝，应归功于这父子俩的密切合作。

沃尔特・阿尔瓦雷斯（Walter Alvarez），美国国家科学院院士，美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校地质学和地球物理学教授。其父路易斯・阿尔瓦雷斯（Luis Alvarez）是该校物理学教授，曾因发现许多亚原子粒子而荣获1968年诺贝尔物理学奖。在很大程度上，查明天体撞击地球如何导致恐龙灭绝，应归功于这父子俩的密切合作。