Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

Absorbing Roman poet Ovid's tales of transformation in "Metamorphoses "and adding his own dash of art-historical figuration and contemporary pop culture, Mark Ryden broaches new terrain with "The Tree Show," Arcadian Gothic" might hint at the nature of this new work, and fans of Ryden will find familiar preoccupations in these new paintings, drawings and sculptures--made since ...(展开全部)

show/off #2 magazine Show/Off #2 is a unique magazine about the Fashion Department, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen. It features highlights from the Fashion Department: the end of year collections of the Master students, works by the Bachelor Year students, information about various projects and workshops... Show/Off #2 is a collector’s item made with ...(展开全部)

Some 40 nationalities participate in the courses of the Fashion Department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, under the watchful leadership of Walter van Beirendonck. This magazine reflects the wide and exciting array of fashion that is created by such a diverse collection of participants. Full-page, colour photographs document recent fashion collections produced by th...(展开全部)

东野圭吾 日本著名作家。 1985年，凭《放学后》获第31届江户川乱步奖，开始专职写作；1999年，《秘密》获第52届日本推理作家协会奖；此后，《白夜行》、《单恋》、《信》、《幻夜》先后入围直木奖； 2005年出版的《嫌疑人X的献身》史无前例地将第134届直木奖、第6届本格推理小说大奖，以及年度三大推理小说排行榜第1名一并斩获；2008年，《流星之绊》获第43届新风奖； 2009年出版的《新参者》获两大推理小说排行榜年度第1名；2012年，《浪矢杂货店的奇迹》获第7届中央公论文艺奖。 早期作品多为精巧细致的本格推理，后期笔锋越发老辣，文字鲜加雕琢，叙述简练凶狠，情节跌宕诡异，故事架构几至匪夷所思的地步，擅长从极不合理处写出极合理的故事，功力之深令世人骇然。

Charles Darwin’s masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed ...(展开全部)