INCLUDED ON MORE THAN TEN BEST OF THE YEAR LISTS, INCLUDING THE GUARDIAN, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, SALON, AMAZON, AND THE WASHINGTON POST! "Modan delights in bringing the subtlest emotional shadings to vivid and often comical life on the page...[The Property is a] wryly funny and ultimately wrenching graphic novel." -NPR The award-winning author of Exit Wounds returns with a story ab...(展开全部)

露图·莫丹生于1966 年，是一名以色列插画师和漫画家，代表作有《致命伤痛》（Exit Wounds）、《遗产》，她还是以色列漫画集团阿克图斯（Actus Comics）的联合创始人，这个创建于1995年的出版机构，由包含莫丹在内的五名以色列艺术家创办。阿克图 斯所出版的图书，多次获得包括安古兰漫画奖在内的多项国际大奖，在以色列颇有影响力。 来兹，真名齐则优，毕业于昆士兰大学翻译专业，现为华北理工大学英语教师，酷爱漫画，长期活跃于欧美漫画界，通过欧美漫画吧、微博等平台介绍、推广漫画，并从事漫画的翻译工作。

The vicissitudes of the leading members of the newly propertied Forsyte family are followed in this captivating series set at the turn of the century. London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered--gloves, waistcoats, feathers, and frocks--to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family is intrigued but wary of this stranger ...(展开全部)

The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of ...(展开全部)

William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial...(展开全部)

One of the common themes in recent public debate has been the law's inability to accommodate the new ways of creating, distributing and replicating intellectual products. In this book the authors argue that in order to understand many of the problems currently confronting the law, it is necessary to understand its past. This is its first detailed historical account. In this bo...(展开全部)

Why should a property interest exist in an intangible item? In recent years, arguments over intellectual property have often divided proponents--who emphasize the importance of providing incentives for producers of creative works-- from skeptics who emphasize the need for free and open access to knowledge. In a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis, Robert P. Merges establishes ...(展开全部)

Through their inimitable mixture of eroticism, subdued elegance and decadent luxury, Newton's pictures reflect in the highest aesthetic quality an obsession with human vanity - from female exhibitionism to male voyeurism. With technical perfection, an extremely detailed style and a relentless directness, Newton staged the neverending psychodrama that contrasts glamour with the...(展开全部)

Second Edition China's entry into the World Trade Organization in December 2001 was a catalyst for China to overhaul its intellectual property system. At the same time, the transparency and anti-corruption reforms in the People's Court, government units, cadre system and state-owned enterprises, in conjunction with the central leadership's official endorsement of the rule of la...(展开全部)