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)

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)

ince its translation into English in the nineteenth century, the Kama Sutra has achieved iconic status in the West. The resurgence of interest in ancient eastern philosophies, medi-cines, and therapies has given it even more relevance today. Using the sensuous erotic advice from the original, Terry Sanderson has taken the Kama Sutra into a new realm by apply-ing its philosophie...(展开全部)

ince its translation into English in the nineteenth century, the Kama Sutra has achieved iconic status in the West. The resurgence of interest in ancient eastern philosophies, medi-cines, and therapies has given it even more relevance today. Using the sensuous erotic advice from the original, Terry Sanderson has taken the Kama Sutra into a new realm by apply-ing its philosophie...(展开全部)

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

The heartwarming sequel to the best-selling The Old Man and the Boy is a moving, nostalgic tale that will transport the reader back to a time when going fishing was not about fish, but the stories told afterward.

In this book, Lee draws on that wealth of experience and depth of insight to offer his views on today’s world and what it might look like in 20 years. This is no dry geopolitical treatise. Nor is it a thematic account of the twists and turns in global affairs. Instead, in this broad-sweep narrative that takes in America, China, Asia and Europe, he parses their society, probes t...(展开全部)

鄔斯宾斯基简介 彼得·鄔斯宾斯基(PeterD.Ouspensky：一八七八年--一九四七年)出生於莫斯科，并在那里长大。他能够记得两岁以前的事情，也曾写下一些这类记忆的片段，由於这些片段的内容与奇特感觉连结在一起，常常同时出现在脑海，因而决定了他一生的主要方向。 鄔氏是个极有天赋的孩子，六岁左右就已阅读成人的书籍；十二岁以前已探究过诗、画和自然科学。在他十几岁的时候，便研究数学、生物学和心理学，尤其对第四度空间的观念特别感兴趣。 对一个曾体验过秩序井然且和谐的宇宙是真实存在的人来说，那些為十岁至十八岁的男生所安排的古典课程，是无法令他满意的。因此他决定不直接上大学，而在俄国、欧洲和东方各地游歷，找一份报社的工作做。二十七岁时，他根据「永恆回归」的观念写了一本小说，名叫《伊凡·欧索金的奇异人生》。这本书一九一五年才在俄国出版，且到了一九四七年才有英译...(展开全部)

This edition of The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution includes a lecture, not previously published, in which Ouspensky givers some details of the "School of the Fourth Way," with which he was connected, and an account of some of its fundamental principles, methods, and rules. The psychology Ouspensky sets forth in this introductory lectures has existed in one form or anoth...(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)