Frank is ten. He likes cottage pie and football and cracking codes. Max is five. He eats only Quavers and some colours are too bright for him and if he has to wear a new T-shirt he melts down down down. Sometimes Frank wishes Mum could still do huge paintings of stars and asteroids like she used to, but since Max was born she just doesn't have time. When tragedy hits Frank and ...(展开全部)

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested. Months later, the two writers - unpublished at the time - collaborated ...(展开全部)

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested. Months later, the two writers - unpublished at the time - collaborated ...(展开全部)

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer, whose sexual advances he'd seemingly grown tired of rejecting. Carr, still in bloodstained clothes, had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this fail...(展开全部)

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished for many years. Written in the form of a mystery novel, the book consists of alternating chapters by each author writing as a different charac...(展开全部)

杰克•凯鲁亚克（Jack Kerouac，1922-1969），是美国“垮掉的一代”代表人物。他的主要作品有自传体小说《在路上》等。他以离经叛道、惊世骇俗的生活方式与文学主张，震撼了20世纪五六十年代美国主流文化的价值观与社会观。凯鲁亚克在小说中创造了一种全新的自动写作 手法——“狂野散文”，他的“生活实录”小说往往带有一种漫无情节的随意性和挑衅性，颠覆了传统的写作风格。其疏狂漫游、沉思顿悟的人生成为“垮掉的一代”的一种理想。 威廉•巴勒斯（William S. Burroughs，1914-1997），美国作家，与艾伦•金斯伯格及杰克•凯鲁亚克同为“垮掉的一代”文学运动的创始者，但他的写作更具有后现代主义者特征。主要作品有《瘾君子》、《裸体午餐》、《西部之地》和《新星快车》三部曲等，其中，《裸体午餐》在出版后引起了极大的争论，但如今已被奉为“垮掉的...(展开全部)

This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: the human body, the household, the city, the region, and the world. The central theme of the book is the way all these forms of ordered space were reshaped by the project of unification and how, at the same time, that unification was constrained and...(展开全部)

In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Here he describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting, from Brecht’s revolutionary alienation technique to the f...(展开全部)

In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge transnational corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and boasts some of the world's most powerful executives. Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that all...(展开全部)