The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its autho...(展开全部)

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its autho...(展开全部)

《THE MASTER》是Colm Toibin以 Henry James為研究對象完成的小說。 來自紐約愛爾蘭移民家庭的Henry James，在歐洲創作出（The Wings of the Dove）、〈The Ambassadors〉等膾炙人口的經典作品，不過他一生未婚與同志傳言的消息也讓這位作家增添幾分神秘，Colm Toibin蒐集了許多Henry James的資料與訪談家人與朋友，試圖以文字描繪與剖析這位文壇大師的內心世界。 本書在入選本年英國 Man Booker prize for fiction候選名單之後，曾獲布克獎提名，也獲得2004年紐約時報年度好書的榮譽。

《THE MASTER》是Colm Toibin以 Henry James為研究對象完成的小說。 來自紐約愛爾蘭移民家庭的Henry James，在歐洲創作出（The Wings of the Dove）、〈The Ambassadors〉等膾炙人口的經典作品，不過他一生未婚與同志傳言的消息也讓這位作家增添幾分神秘，Colm Toibin蒐集了許多Henry James的資料與訪談家人與朋友，試圖以文字描繪與剖析這位文壇大師的內心世界。 本書在入選本年英國 Man Booker prize for fiction候選名單之後，曾獲布克獎提名，也獲得2004年紐約時報年度好書的榮譽。

Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, ...(展开全部)

VICTOR SEBESTYEN was born in Budapest. He has worked as a journalist on many British newspapers including The Times, the Daily Mail, and the London Evening Standard, where he was foreign editor and editorial writer. He has also written for many American publications, including The New York Times, and was an editor at Newsweek. He is author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 ...(展开全部)

The UnRules presents the dynamic rules for success in the age of exponential information. Written by Igor Tulchinsky, the trader behind global quantitative investment management firm WorldQuant, this book is more than just another Big Data guide for financial wonks — it’s a prescriptive, inspirational book for everyone navigating the tidal waves of the information age. Data is ...(展开全部)

In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with th...(展开全部)

The Internet Age: on the face of it, an era of unprecedented freedom in both communication and culture. Yet in the past, each major new medium, from telephone to satellite television, has crested on a wave of similar idealistic optimism, before succumbing to the inevitable undertow of industrial consolidation. Every once free and open technology has, in time, become centralized...(展开全部)

It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry–from the telephone to radio to film–once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by entrepreneurs and utopians, just as the Internet does today. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. In this pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Inter...(展开全部)