Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war. In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted to join the mujahedeen to fight the Soviets. The resulting book wasn...(展开全部)

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and SandM. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where yo...(展开全部)

In "The Moving Body, " translated into English for the first time, Lecoq shares his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement, and gesture. Neutral mask, character masks and counter-masks, bouffons, acrobatics, commedia, clowns: all the famous Lecoq techniques are include here. "The Moving Body" is the written legacy of a great theatrical imagination.

罗斯•麦克唐纳（Ross MacDonald，1915-1983） 罗斯•麦克唐纳，本名肯尼斯•米勒，生于美国加州，是著名的高学历作家，拥有文学博士头衔。他曾服役于美国海军情报局，退役后在母校密歇根大学执教。二十三岁时，麦克唐纳与著名的侦探小说家玛格丽特•米勒结为夫妇。受妻子影响，他开始涉足犯罪小说的创作。前四部作品均以本名发表，第五部长篇小说《移动飞靶》发表时，取笔名为罗斯•麦克唐纳。 麦克唐纳幼年丧父，唯一的女儿又因脑出血离世，因此他笔下的故事总被浓郁的悲伤气氛所笼罩，“亲子分离”也是他擅长描写的主题。其作品文笔优美，心理描写细腻深刻，用词简约，韵味悠长。在处理犯罪的心理层面上，若说他是最写实、并对后代作家最具启发性的侦探小说大师，并不为过。他的角色心理深度超越了所有同类型的作品；对各种角色的处理不像钱德勒那样爱下结论，他总是留给角色一些“不解...(展开全部)

Agatha Christie's famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets -- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symming...(展开全部)

《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》收录了超过80位一流国际插图设计师的445幅插图作品，力求把美洲、欧洲和亚洲的精彩插图一网打尽{《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》是一部适合专业人士和初学者阅读的，集合了来自全球的插图作者最新力作的综合性图鉴。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》由享有盛誉的设计师安格斯?黑兰德编纂，呈现出并代表了当前插图发展趋势和变革的多种风格、技术以及社会客观因素的广阔图景，它是对当代插图艺术的绝妙概括。因此，它对插图作者、平面造型设计师和任何致力于插图业的人士来说，都将是无价之宝。 每位艺术家的作品都配有作者自述和一段简短的、可以展示创作灵感及其作品和职业发展路径的叙述性文字。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》包括445幅插图，其中...(展开全部)

In this new brief introduction to the rich and complex discipline of sociology, Jon Witt cuts to the core of the sociological perspective, supplying answers to two main questions: "Why do we think the way we think?" and "Why do we act the way we act?" Providing students with a glimpse of the "Big Picture," the author offers a top-down look at the structure of society, which all...(展开全部)

Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience. Far from negating action or meaning, sleep extends into new te...(展开全部)

Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience. Far from negating action or meaning, sleep extends into new te...(展开全部)

当代法国侦探小说作家，硕果仅存的坚持本格侦探小说创作的欧美作家，被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。 霍尔特一九五六年出生于法国东北部亚尔萨斯省的阿格诺。一九八七年以《第四扇门》一书获得干邑侦探小说奖而正式出道。之后陆续创作以“阿兰•图威斯特博士”为主人公的系列作品及其他系列作品，代表作有《第七重解答》、《达特穆尔的恶魔》、《恶狼之夜》等。霍尔特的绝大多数作品都是描写不可能犯罪的正统解谜之作，以密室、不在场证明、足迹消失等核心诡计为卖点，凭借异想天开的构思、缜密的逻辑推导以及意料之外、情理之中的解答征服了广大读者，成为当代欧美侦探小说作家中最为“古典”、“另类”的一位，是当之无愧的当代本格侦探小说的领军人物。