The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul

Walter Everett
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The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life--composition, performance, recording and reception histories--from its beginnings in 1956 through 1965. Richly authoritative interpretations from every available reliable musical document are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio, video, print, and multimedia sources. The text will enable general readers and musicians as well as educated music theorists to learn new levels of beauty in the music of the Beatles.

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Topic: The Music of The Beatles

傷花怒放: 搖滾的被縛與抗爭

郝舫 著
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《傷花怒放:搖滾的被縛與抗爭》是西方垮掉一代文化最優秀的作品。近500幅稀缺歷史圖片，規模宏大，材料豐富，從搖滾與革命，搖滾與極權，搖滾與高雅，搖滾與民族，搖滾與秩序，搖滾與性，搖滾與宗教，搖滾與毒品幾個方面講述了搖滾在發展歷程上的被縛與抗爭。

(摘錄自若水堂大陸圖書)

Genre: Pop and Rock
(An impressive array of Scandinavian rock and pop music, jazz, indie-pop and folk/accoustic pop)

Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

David W. Galenson
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From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators - from Picasso and Duchamp to Rauschenberg and Warhol to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst - responded not only by creating dozens of new forms of art, but also by behaving in ways that would have been incomprehensible to their predecessors. Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art presents the first systematic analysis of the reasons for this discontinuity. David W. Galenson, whose earlier research has changed our understanding of creativity, combines social scientific methods with qualitative analysis to produce a fundamentally new interpretation of modern art that will give readers a far deeper appreciation of the art of the past century, and of today, than is available elsewhere.

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畢加索畫傳

周時奮 著
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……凡是知道畢加索名字的人，絕大多數並不知道他的作品。這是一個太奇特的畫家。他用一生的作品來描述一個畢加索，因為他的所有作品，幾乎就是他自己坦率的自傳，他繪畫的主體始終都是他自己、他的情人、他的朋友、他的崇拜者，總之，這一切構成了畢加索的精美細膩而又傷感的個人世界。因此不了解畢加索奇特的經歷，確實無法理解他的作品。

畢加索的目光是質詢，是以一個陌生者的目光對著一個異已世界的深深質詢。在這種質詢中，有著懷疑、驚奇和深藏的驚恐，並且把這樣的驚奇與驚恐一併傳遞給我們。畢加索以他開創的立體主義繪畫聞名於世，然而，他並不僅僅是一位立體主義畫家，他始終隨著他自己的時代，從立體主義轉向新古典主義，又轉向超現實主義、表現主義，幾乎在他涉足的每一個美術流派領域裡，他都取得了輝煌的成就。

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Self-promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead

Nancy Ancowitz
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All too often, introverts get passed over for job offers and promotions while their more extroverted colleagues get all of the recognition. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

In Self-Promotion for Introverts, business communication coach and intrepid introvert Nancy Ancowitz helps introverts tap into their quiet strengths, articulate their accomplishments, and launch an action plan for gaining career advancement. You will learn how to:

• Promote yourself without bragging— when networking, on job interviews, and at work

• Use your quiet gifts (writing, researching, and listening) to your advantage
• Be a commanding presenter, despite your quieter nature
• Formulate your best plans, set goals, take action— and even find a better job
• Featuring exclusive advice from Warren Buffett, Bill Clinton, Hearst Magazines president Cathie Black, and marketing guru Seth Godin, Self-Promotion for Introverts helps you progress inward, outward, and onward.

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烏合之眾: 大眾心理硏究 (The Crowd)

古斯塔夫. 勒龐 (Gustave Le Bon) 著
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本書是一本當之無愧的名著，他極為精致地描述了集體心態，是在社會心理學領域已經寫出的著作中，最有影響者。本書還具有持久的影響力，是群體行為的研究者不可不讀的文獻。

勒龐認為，現代生活逐漸以群體的聚合為特征。在《烏合之眾》一書中，他指出，個人一旦進入群體中，他的個性使湮沒了，群體的思想佔據統治地位；而群體的行為表現為無異議、情緒化和低智商。

本書共三卷，包括群體心理；群體的意見與信念；不同群體的分類及其特點。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)