The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa’s most important writers Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has ...(展开全部)

媒体推荐 “Diane’s book evokes everything she has lived through. It is honest, direct and fascinating — just like the author herself!” (Anna Wintour) “In this era when girls are made to think it’s better to be a princess than a person, Diane von Furstenberg’s The Woman I Wanted to Be is just the reverse. I thank her for honesty, spirit, encouragement to be one’s own self in public a...(展开全部)

媒体推荐 “Diane’s book evokes everything she has lived through. It is honest, direct and fascinating — just like the author herself!” (Anna Wintour) “In this era when girls are made to think it’s better to be a princess than a person, Diane von Furstenberg’s The Woman I Wanted to Be is just the reverse. I thank her for honesty, spirit, encouragement to be one’s own self in public a...(展开全部)

Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T'an-ch'eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy ...(展开全部)

Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a "dark continent," unfathomable and unapproachable; its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in mascul...(展开全部)

曼努埃尔·普伊格（Manuel Puig，1932—1990） 阿根廷著名作家，出生于潘帕斯大草原上的比耶加斯将军镇，一个他自称“什么都没有的地方”，因而他从小便喜欢泡在电影院里，尤爱好莱坞电影。1956年，普伊格去罗马学习电影，之后他教过西班牙语、意大利语，洗过盘子，在法国航空做过小职员，他一生中大部分时间都在他乡流亡。1990年逝世于墨西哥。 普伊格经常说：“不是我选择了文学，而是文学选择了我。”他本想成为一名导演，或者电影编剧，但均以失败告终，于是逐渐转向文学写作。他一生共创作了《蜘蛛女之吻》《丽塔?海沃斯的背叛》《布宜诺斯艾利斯事件》等八部长篇小说。《蜘蛛女之吻》是普伊格最为知名的小说，同名电影获得四项奥斯卡提名，出演主角莫利纳的美国演员威廉·赫特收获了奥斯卡最佳男演员及戛纳电影节最佳男演员奖。

Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T'an-ch'eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy ...(展开全部)

曼努埃尔·普伊格（Manuel Puig，1932—1990） 阿根廷著名作家，出生于潘帕斯大草原上的比耶加斯将军镇，一个他自称“什么都没有的地方”，因而他从小便喜欢泡在电影院里，尤爱好莱坞电影。1956年，普伊格去罗马学习电影，之后他教过西班牙语、意大利语，洗过盘子，在法国航空做过小职员，他一生中大部分时间都在他乡流亡。1990年逝世于墨西哥。 普伊格经常说：“不是我选择了文学，而是文学选择了我。”他本想成为一名导演，或者电影编剧，但均以失败告终，于是逐渐转向文学写作。他一生共创作了《蜘蛛女之吻》《丽塔?海沃斯的背叛》《布宜诺斯艾利斯事件》等八部长篇小说。《蜘蛛女之吻》是普伊格最为知名的小说，同名电影获得四项奥斯卡提名，出演主角莫利纳的美国演员威廉·赫特收获了奥斯卡最佳男演员及戛纳电影节最佳男演员奖。

Directed by Kenneth Branagh (Henry V, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) and starring Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek), Natalie Portman (Star Wars) and Academy Award Winner Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs), THOR promises to be one of 2011's biggest blockbusters, continuing the story set up in IRON MAN, IRON MAN 2 and THE INCREDIBLE HULK, and leading into THE FIRST AVENGE...(展开全部)

The unsung heroes of film, storyboard artists are the first to give vision to a screenplay, translating words on the page into shots for the screen. Their work is a unique art form in itself. Many storyboards are beautiful in their own right, but ultimately the skill of the artist lies in their visual communication of a script, with multiple factors to consider: composition, mo...(展开全部)