这是对 Spotify 的起源及其对音乐的影响的一次毫不留情的调查，将报道与尖锐的文化批评交织在一起，阐明了流媒体如何为听众和艺术家重塑音乐。 通过对业内人士、前 Spotify 员工和音乐家的一百多次采访，Mood Machine 带我们了解了当今高度整合的唱片业务的内部运作，展示了随着音乐越来越多地被列入播放列表、个性化和自动播放，发生了哪些变化。 音乐记者 Liz Pelly 在多年广泛报道流媒体的基础上，通过研究该公司所谓的双边市场的双方，详细描述了 Spotify 模式的后果：用他们的金钱和数据付费的听众，以及提供所有支持材料的音乐家。音乐行业以不透明而闻名，但 Pelly 在这里揭开了重要新闻的面纱，例如流媒体服务用低成本的库存音乐填充热门播放列表以及新的类似贿赂的做法的兴起。 尽管流媒体加剧了不平等现象，但佩利也从记录艺术家为争取更好模...(展开全部)

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“The world that I long to inhabit is the one that Charlie Mackesy has created – a world of infinite kindness, wisdom, mutual care and tenderness, and true love between real friends. My prayer/hope is that our world will become more like this one.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic)

A book for all ages, a book for all time. Adapted into a short animated film, coming this Christmas. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online. They've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital walls. They...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 丹•琼斯，专攻中世纪史的历史学家，曾获多项大奖。他的作品《金雀花王朝：缔造英格兰的武士国王与王后们》为《纽约时报》畅销书。《金雀花王朝》已被改编为四集电视纪录片《不列颠最血腥的王朝：金雀花王朝与大宪章，自由的诞生》。他和妻子及两个女儿生活在伦敦。 【译者简介】 陆大鹏，英德译者，热爱一切long ago和far away的东西。代表译作“地中海史诗三部曲”、《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》《金雀花王朝》《伯罗奔尼撒战争》《伊莎贝拉》《滑铁卢》《恺撒》《奥古斯都》《征服者》《罗曼诺夫皇朝》等。 豆瓣、新浪微博：陆大鹏Hans 微信公号：ldphans

With Peter Jackson's Acadamy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King. The Art of The Return of the King illustrates the creative development of the film from sketch to special eff...(展开全部)

The first volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, revised and with a new foreword and an index by Professor Tolkien. The trilogy recounts the War of the Ring, in which the Third Age of Middle-earth came. This volume opens with the discovery of the Nature of the Ring. "Destined to outlast our time." -- New York Herald Tribune

"It probably arose," he answered, "from the spontaneous combustion of the cotton. The case is rare, but it is far from unknown. Unless the cotton is perfectly dry when it is shipped, its confinement in a damp or ill-ventilated hold will sometimes cause it to ignite; and I have no doubt it is this that has brought about our misfortune."

《纳尼亚传奇》系列作品对后世作家影响深远，包括《哈利波特》系列的作者J·K·罗琳都曾表示自己深受C·S·刘易斯作品的影响。随着《纳尼亚传奇》系列故事改编成电影，全世界更多观众和读者开始认识这部不朽的作品。穿梭在一个又一个的纳尼亚冒险故事中，这绝对是你一生难忘的神奇旅程……