Written between May 1991 and February 1994, and ending just two weeks before his death from an AIDS-related illness , Derek Jarman’s entries in Smiling in Slow Motion pick up where Modern Nature left off. Friends and enemies are reviewed as he races through his last years painting, filmmaking, gardening, and annoying his targets through his involvement in radical politics. Infu...(展开全部)

Derek Jarman's Smiling in Slow Motion concludes the journey started in Modern Nature, these previously unpublished journals stretch from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Part diary, part observation, part memoir, Jarman writes with his familiar honesty, wry humour and acuity. Friends, collaborators and enemies are catalogued as he races through his ...(展开全部)

简介：chessman和smiling的爱情故事

From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work, and what they can tell us about how to live. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for ...(展开全部)

Written by a leading developer and maintainer of the Linux kernel, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell is a comprehensive overview of kernel configuration and building, a critical task for Linux users and administrators. No distribution can provide a Linux kernel that meets all users' needs. Computers big and small have special requirements that require reconfiguring and rebuilding the ...(展开全部)

From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work, and what they can tell us about how to live. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for ...(展开全部)

This book offers Python programmers one place to look when they need help remembering or deciphering the syntax of this open source language and its many powerful but scantily documented modules. This comprehensive reference guide makes it easy to look up the most frequently needed information--not just about the Python language itself, but also the most frequently used parts o...(展开全部)

In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about her route from girl to woman and pioneering icon within the music and art scene of New York City in the 1980s and 90s as well as marriage, motherhood, and independence. Filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a remark...(展开全部)

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip...(展开全部)

作者：金·戈登，生于1953年，美国实验后朋克乐队“音速青年”创始成员兼主唱和贝斯手，被视作女权主义力量的灯塔，有“后朋克女神”之称。 出现于纽约的“音速青年”，是史上最具影响力的乐队之一，他们的传奇持续影响着独立摇滚和美国流行文化。戈登多年来在舞台上以神秘而疏离的气质著称，毫无女孩气，也不倒向男人气，与这支男性主导的纽约噪音乐队共同奋斗三十余年，更将自己的活动扩展至时尚、表演和艺术等领域，成为女性力量存在的鲜活证明。 2011年“音速青年”解散后，戈登组建了乐队“身体/头脑”（Body/Head）。2014年，出版艺术评论文集《这是我的身体吗？》（Is It My Body?），并在洛杉矶高古轩画廊（Gagosian Gallery)、纽约白色廊柱画廊（White Columns）、纽约303画廊（303 Gallery）举行个人艺术展。 戈登目前...(展开全部)