Following the end of the First World War Richard Hannay， the hero of John Buchan s The Thirty-Nine Steps， Greenmantle and Mr Standfast， has retired to the Cotswolds with his wife and young son. There， news comes to him of three kidnappings and a plot of political and financial magnitude that would shake the world. Hannay abandons his Gloucestershire idyll to counter the thre...(展开全部)

A leading expert explains what government bureaucracies do and why they behave the way they do.

Bureaucracy is the classic study of the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better. Examining a wide range of bureaucracies, including the Army, the FBI, the FCC, and the Social Security Administration, James Q. Wilson provides the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of what government agencies do, why they function as they do, and how they...(展开全部)

With Do It in hand, you will be able to make a work of (someone else's) art yourself. Since 1993 Do It has provided its public with how-to pages of instructions written by 168 of the most important artists and writers working today. Some of the projects are historic classics brought forward especially for the occasion, but most of the contributions being imagined here are new. ...(展开全部)

手边放一本《做》，你就可以动手做艺术。1993年至今，“做”（do it）邀请了200余位最重要的当代艺术家为此项目撰写“如何去做”的方案。书中绝大部分方案是专为“做”这一项目而做，其中一些方案已是当代艺术史上的经典之做。“做”已在欧洲、美洲、亚洲和澳大利亚的近50家美术馆和文化中心展出，并由此不断发展壮大。呈现在你眼前的这本书，是《做》独家授权中文版，共收录了201位当代艺术家撰写的方案，这些艺术家包括：玛丽娜·阿布拉莫维奇、马修·巴尼、路易斯·布尔乔亚、批判艺术组合、奥利弗·埃利亚森、吉尔伯特与乔治、理查德·汉密尔顿、小野洋子、艾伦·卡普洛、白南准、米开朗基罗·皮斯托莱托、夏维耶·勒·罗伊、保罗·麦卡锡等。《做》并特别邀请了20为中国艺术家参与新版本的创作，他们收录在本书中的方案也是《做》的最新升级。 你可以把《做》看成是一本关于当代艺术的手册，...(展开全部)

You have a great idea. It is so obviously great that you’re hardly going to have to explain it to people. This delightful little book will teach you to become a better communicator of ideas and an inspired motivator of people, both personally and professionally.

Perhaps Studs Terkel’s best-known book, Working is a compelling, fascinating look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from gravediggers to studio heads, this book provides a timeless snapshot of people’s feelings about their working lives, as well as a relevant and lasting look at how work fits into American life...(展开全部)

Perhaps Studs Terkel’s best-known book, Working is a compelling, fascinating look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from gravediggers to studio heads, this book provides a timeless snapshot of people’s feelings about their working lives, as well as a relevant and lasting look at how work fits into American life...(展开全部)

A trade paperback edition of the bestselling oral history.

A trade paperback edition of the bestselling oral history.