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〔適用對象：國高中生~成人，一般生活英語會話、全民英檢中級程度〕 Live互動英語雜誌：教材貼近生活、流行，內容實用充滿趣味，附真人情境式主題會話，體驗如在國外環境學英語的驚人效果，讓你輕鬆開口說英語！ Rihanna: A Star with a Beautiful Soul 蕾哈娜：人美心更美的流行天后 One of the hottest singers today is Rihanna, who, at 32, has achieved more than most stars her age. So far, she has sold over 60 million albums and won nine Grammy awards. Besides her work in music, she has also built a successful business and used her money to help others. Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty in Barbados. She had a troubled family life and turned to singing as an escape. At 16, she was discovered by a music producer and moved to America. Soon she released her first album, Music of the Sun, which sold close to two million copies. This was followed by more hit albums and songs, including “Umbrella,” “Diamond,” and “Stay.” In 2017, Rihanna created Fenty Beauty, the first beauty brand to offer 40 different shades of foundation. As a black woman, she had noticed a lack of foundations for darker-skinned women. She therefore created a brand for every skin tone under the sun. “I wanted everyone to feel included,” Rihanna said, and people love the results. 三十二歲的蕾哈娜是當今最火紅的歌手之一，她的成就遠超過同齡的大多數明星。到目前為止，她已賣出超過六千萬張專輯，並獲得九座葛萊美獎。除了音樂工作外，她也建立一項成功的事業，並用她的錢來幫助別人。 蕾哈娜出生在巴貝多，本名為蘿蘋．蕾哈娜．芬蒂。她的家庭生活問題很多，於是開始唱歌作為逃避的方式。十六歲時，她被一名音樂製作人發掘並搬到了美國。不久，她發行了第一張專輯《太陽之歌》，這張專輯賣了將近兩百萬張。接下來有更多張暢銷專輯和熱門歌曲，包括〈小雨傘〉、〈璀鑽〉和〈留下〉。 二○一七年，蕾哈娜創立了Fenty Beauty，這是第一個提供四十種不同色調的粉底的美容品牌。身為黑人女性，她注意到缺乏適合深色皮膚女性用的粉底。因此，她創造了一個適合世界上每一種膚色的品牌。蕾哈娜說：「我想要每個人都感覺受到包容」，而大家都喜歡此結果。 With millions of fans across the world, Rihanna has put her influence to good use. In 2012, she started the Clara Lionel Foundation to support educational programs around the world and to help pay school fees for youth from poor countries. Through the foundation, Rihanna also built a cancer treatment center in Barbados and set up projects to help developing areas better prepare for natural disasters. In 2017, she received an award from Harvard University that recognized her for all the work she had done to help people. This year, Rihanna’s foundation has given away US$5 million for coronavirus relief efforts. The money has gone towards supporting food banks in poor places and buying equipment that doctors and nurses needed to treat coronavirus patients. The foundation also worked with Jay-Z’s foundation to provide US$2 million to support the children of health and emergency workers. Even with all that she has achieved, Rihanna is just getting started. Whether in the area of music, business, or charity, she continues to win the world’s love and respect. 在世界各地擁有數百萬名粉絲的蕾哈娜善用她的影響力。二○一二年，她成立了克萊拉萊納基金會來支持世界各地的教育計畫，協助支付貧窮國家年輕人的學費。透過該基金會，蕾哈娜也在巴貝多設立一個癌症治療中心，並籌劃專案計畫協助開發中地區為自然災害做更周全的準備。二○一七年，她獲得了哈佛大學頒發的一個獎項，表彰她為助人所做的所有努力。 今年，蕾哈娜的基金會捐贈了五百萬美元給新冠病毒的救援工作。這筆錢用來資助貧窮地區的食物銀行，以及購買醫生和護理師需要的設備來治療新冠病毒的患者。該基金會也與Jay-Z的基金會合作，提供兩百萬美元來資助保健和急救人員的子女。 即使完成了這麼多事，蕾哈娜才剛要開始。無論是在音樂、商業還是慈善領域，她都持續贏得世人的愛與尊重。 4 Live關鍵時事新聞 9 焦點話題 10 大師名作選 The Yellow Paint 〈黃色油漆〉 本篇為蘇格蘭作家羅伯特．路易斯．史蒂文森（Robert Louis Stevenson）的短篇故事，描述一名醫生宣稱他的黃色油漆可使人免於危險和災難，許多人因此慕名去塗漆，結果…… 14 暖心故事 Helping Hands during the COVID-19 Pandemic 面對新冠疫情 溫暖在人間 新冠肺炎爆發後僅僅數週便傳遍世界各地，影響旅遊、民生經濟及各項運動賽事等，醫護人員更是站在對抗疫情的最前線，首當其衝。在這個艱難的時期，許多人伸出援手將溫暖散播人間。 18 克漏字 A Disappearing Act for Plastics 消除塑膠新招——把它吃光光 一次性使用的塑膠造成大量的垃圾，一間名為Notpla的公司開發出使用後會自然分解的塑膠包材替代品，希望能成為永久解決塑膠危機的良方。 20 旅遊好去處 Exploring the Mountains of Taiwan 走訪台灣山林古道 在一個語言不通的地方騎著機車旅行十天會有什麼奇遇呢？作者以親身經歷帶大家看看台灣山林間的意外驚喜！ 24 生活情境對話 Shopping for Fruit 購買水果 • 英語聽力測驗 28 焦點人物 Rihanna: A Star with a Beautiful Soul 蕾哈娜：人美心更美的流行天后 獲得九座葛來美獎的蕾哈娜，除了在音樂方面打出亮眼的成績，在商業和慈善領域也有一番成就，一起來認識這位眾人公認時尚、性感又善良的流行樂天后吧！ 32 肢體語言 The History of Hand Gestures 常見手勢的由來 人們透過語言來溝通，但有時也可透過手勢來交流，本文就要介紹三種最常使用手勢的由來！ 37 翻譯練習 Translation Practice 40 語言文化 As Graceful as a Swan? The Facts about Swans 如天鵝般優雅？顛覆你對天鵝的想像 天鵝被視為是優雅、浪漫的動物，經常可以在藝術品、歌曲、舞蹈，甚至諺語中見到天鵝的存在，不過牠們的聲譽真的名副其實嗎？ 44 唱歌學英語 Studying English with Songs: Stuck with U Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber： 〈Stuck with U〉 45 主題式會話 Enjoying a Night at the Movies 來看電影吧 48 日常好用句 My goose is cooked! 我完蛋了；我慘了！ 50 閱讀策略 Master Your Money 聰明理財——做自己金錢的主人 你會把零用錢花光光，還是把不必要的花費存來呢？花點時間了解如何管理你的錢，小錢也能變大錢喔！ 56 生態環保 Leave It to Beaver: Bringing Beavers Back to Control UK Flooding 英國打算用河貍來治水？ 勤於築水壩的河貍曾因咬壞果樹、造成農損而遭到獵捕，在英國絕跡，但近年來發現河貍的水壩有治洪的功用，使得英國政府考慮重新引進河貍，但為什麼有許多人反對呢？ 60 電影快報 • Wonder Woman 1984 《神力女超人1984》 • The New Mutants 《變種人》 62 Movie Trailer English 看預告片學英文 63 General English Proficiency Test 全民英檢中級模擬聽力試題 65 Chinese Translation 中文翻譯 77 GEPT Answer Key 全民英檢中級模擬聽力試題解答
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〔適用對象：國高中生~成人，一般生活英語會話、全民英檢中級程度〕 Live互動英語雜誌：教材貼近生活、流行，內容實用充滿趣味，附真人情境式主題會話，體驗如在國外環境學英語的驚人效果，讓你輕鬆開口說英語！ Rihanna: A Star with a Beautiful Soul 蕾哈娜：人美心更美的流行天后 One of the hottest singers today is Rihanna, who, at 32, has achieved more than most stars her age. So far, she has sold over 60 million albums and won nine Grammy awards. Besides her work in music, she has also built a successful business and used her money to help others. Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty in Barbados. She had a troubled family life and turned to singing as an escape. At 16, she was discovered by a music producer and moved to America. Soon she released her first album, Music of the Sun, which sold close to two million copies. This was followed by more hit albums and songs, including “Umbrella,” “Diamond,” and “Stay.” In 2017, Rihanna created Fenty Beauty, the first beauty brand to offer 40 different shades of foundation. As a black woman, she had noticed a lack of foundations for darker-skinned women. She therefore created a brand for every skin tone under the sun. “I wanted everyone to feel included,” Rihanna said, and people love the results. 三十二歲的蕾哈娜是當今最火紅的歌手之一，她的成就遠超過同齡的大多數明星。到目前為止，她已賣出超過六千萬張專輯，並獲得九座葛萊美獎。除了音樂工作外，她也建立一項成功的事業，並用她的錢來幫助別人。 蕾哈娜出生在巴貝多，本名為蘿蘋．蕾哈娜．芬蒂。她的家庭生活問題很多，於是開始唱歌作為逃避的方式。十六歲時，她被一名音樂製作人發掘並搬到了美國。不久，她發行了第一張專輯《太陽之歌》，這張專輯賣了將近兩百萬張。接下來有更多張暢銷專輯和熱門歌曲，包括〈小雨傘〉、〈璀鑽〉和〈留下〉。 二○一七年，蕾哈娜創立了Fenty Beauty，這是第一個提供四十種不同色調的粉底的美容品牌。身為黑人女性，她注意到缺乏適合深色皮膚女性用的粉底。因此，她創造了一個適合世界上每一種膚色的品牌。蕾哈娜說：「我想要每個人都感覺受到包容」，而大家都喜歡此結果。 With millions of fans across the world, Rihanna has put her influence to good use. In 2012, she started the Clara Lionel Foundation to support educational programs around the world and to help pay school fees for youth from poor countries. Through the foundation, Rihanna also built a cancer treatment center in Barbados and set up projects to help developing areas better prepare for natural disasters. In 2017, she received an award from Harvard University that recognized her for all the work she had done to help people. This year, Rihanna’s foundation has given away US$5 million for coronavirus relief efforts. The money has gone towards supporting food banks in poor places and buying equipment that doctors and nurses needed to treat coronavirus patients. The foundation also worked with Jay-Z’s foundation to provide US$2 million to support the children of health and emergency workers. Even with all that she has achieved, Rihanna is just getting started. Whether in the area of music, business, or charity, she continues to win the world’s love and respect. 在世界各地擁有數百萬名粉絲的蕾哈娜善用她的影響力。二○一二年，她成立了克萊拉萊納基金會來支持世界各地的教育計畫，協助支付貧窮國家年輕人的學費。透過該基金會，蕾哈娜也在巴貝多設立一個癌症治療中心，並籌劃專案計畫協助開發中地區為自然災害做更周全的準備。二○一七年，她獲得了哈佛大學頒發的一個獎項，表彰她為助人所做的所有努力。 今年，蕾哈娜的基金會捐贈了五百萬美元給新冠病毒的救援工作。這筆錢用來資助貧窮地區的食物銀行，以及購買醫生和護理師需要的設備來治療新冠病毒的患者。該基金會也與Jay-Z的基金會合作，提供兩百萬美元來資助保健和急救人員的子女。 即使完成了這麼多事，蕾哈娜才剛要開始。無論是在音樂、商業還是慈善領域，她都持續贏得世人的愛與尊重。 4 Live關鍵時事新聞 9 焦點話題 10 大師名作選 The Yellow Paint 〈黃色油漆〉 本篇為蘇格蘭作家羅伯特．路易斯．史蒂文森（Robert Louis Stevenson）的短篇故事，描述一名醫生宣稱他的黃色油漆可使人免於危險和災難，許多人因此慕名去塗漆，結果…… 14 暖心故事 Helping Hands during the COVID-19 Pandemic 面對新冠疫情 溫暖在人間 新冠肺炎爆發後僅僅數週便傳遍世界各地，影響旅遊、民生經濟及各項運動賽事等，醫護人員更是站在對抗疫情的最前線，首當其衝。在這個艱難的時期，許多人伸出援手將溫暖散播人間。 18 克漏字 A Disappearing Act for Plastics 消除塑膠新招——把它吃光光 一次性使用的塑膠造成大量的垃圾，一間名為Notpla的公司開發出使用後會自然分解的塑膠包材替代品，希望能成為永久解決塑膠危機的良方。 20 旅遊好去處 Exploring the Mountains of Taiwan 走訪台灣山林古道 在一個語言不通的地方騎著機車旅行十天會有什麼奇遇呢？作者以親身經歷帶大家看看台灣山林間的意外驚喜！ 24 生活情境對話 Shopping for Fruit 購買水果 • 英語聽力測驗 28 焦點人物 Rihanna: A Star with a Beautiful Soul 蕾哈娜：人美心更美的流行天后 獲得九座葛來美獎的蕾哈娜，除了在音樂方面打出亮眼的成績，在商業和慈善領域也有一番成就，一起來認識這位眾人公認時尚、性感又善良的流行樂天后吧！ 32 肢體語言 The History of Hand Gestures 常見手勢的由來 人們透過語言來溝通，但有時也可透過手勢來交流，本文就要介紹三種最常使用手勢的由來！ 37 翻譯練習 Translation Practice 40 語言文化 As Graceful as a Swan? The Facts about Swans 如天鵝般優雅？顛覆你對天鵝的想像 天鵝被視為是優雅、浪漫的動物，經常可以在藝術品、歌曲、舞蹈，甚至諺語中見到天鵝的存在，不過牠們的聲譽真的名副其實嗎？ 44 唱歌學英語 Studying English with Songs: Stuck with U Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber： 〈Stuck with U〉 45 主題式會話 Enjoying a Night at the Movies 來看電影吧 48 日常好用句 My goose is cooked! 我完蛋了；我慘了！ 50 閱讀策略 Master Your Money 聰明理財——做自己金錢的主人 你會把零用錢花光光，還是把不必要的花費存來呢？花點時間了解如何管理你的錢，小錢也能變大錢喔！ 56 生態環保 Leave It to Beaver: Bringing Beavers Back to Control UK Flooding 英國打算用河貍來治水？ 勤於築水壩的河貍曾因咬壞果樹、造成農損而遭到獵捕，在英國絕跡，但近年來發現河貍的水壩有治洪的功用，使得英國政府考慮重新引進河貍，但為什麼有許多人反對呢？ 60 電影快報 • Wonder Woman 1984 《神力女超人1984》 • The New Mutants 《變種人》 62 Movie Trailer English 看預告片學英文 63 General English Proficiency Test 全民英檢中級模擬聽力試題 65 Chinese Translation 中文翻譯 77 GEPT Answer Key 全民英檢中級模擬聽力試題解答
Author: Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher: ASCD
ISBN: 1416600353
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.
Author: Helen Atherton
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0702081515
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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This leading textbook (previously known as Learning Disabilities) aims to further the practice of professionals and agencies who support people with intellectual disabilities. It emphasizes the strengths rather than deficits of people with intellectual disabilities, highlights the crucial role of family and friends, and places individuals firmly at the heart of everything that impacts them. Intellectual Disabilities: Toward Inclusion centres on the concepts of respecting the personhood of people with intellectual disabilities, and their rights to holistic health and to live their best lives. Most of the 27 chapters are co-authored by respected international authors, and the content has been fully updated to reflect contemporary policy, legislation and service configuration. This unique text will challenge and reframe typically held views, and provides an international focus that recognizes we have much to learn from the experiences and perspectives of other nations around the world. - Comprehensive overview of the field – relevant to contemporary practice - Content organized around three central themes: Who am I?; Maximizing my health; Living my best life - Well-written and accessible - Artwork and perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities bring content to life - Authors from a range of professional backgrounds representing Australia, Austria, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, the UK, and the United States - Activities, case studies, diagrams and useful web links - Additional material in an online resource complements reader activities found throughout the text
Author: Garr Reynolds
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0321601890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.
Author: Kevin Inouye
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351027409
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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The Screen Combat Handbook is an essential guide to navigating the unique challenges of putting combat on screen. Explore the process from the early stages of preproduction planning all the way through to editing and sound design, and everything in-between. This book uses practical instruction, examples, interviews, and illustrations to show how to plan, shoot, and assemble safe and effective fight sequences. It includes sections on thoughtful and practical design choices in set, wardrobe, props, and effects, preproduction planning, on-set protocol, fight choreography and coordination, shot planning and technical tricks, acting choices, effective cinematography, and impactful editing and sound design. It provides an invaluable resource for all those involved including directors, fight coordinators, actors and stunt players, and any filmmaker attempting to shoot an exciting action scene safely. Whether working on a no-budget indie production or on a professional set, this is your ultimate guide to screen combat and fight choreography.
Author: George Monbiot
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022620555X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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As an investigative journalist, Monbiot found a mission in his ecological boredom, that of learning what it might take to impose a greater state of harmony between himself and nature. He was not one to romanticize undisturbed, primal landscapes, but rather in his attempts to satisfy his cravings for a richer, more authentic life, he came stumbled into the world of restoration and rewilding. When these concepts were first introduced in 2011, very recently, they focused on releasing captive animals into the wild. Soon the definition expanded to describe the reintroduction of animal and plant species to habitats from which they had been excised. Some people began using it to mean the rehabilitation not just of particular species, but of entire ecosystems: a restoration of wilderness. Rewilding recognizes that nature consists not just of a collection of species but also of their ever-shifting relationships with each other and with the physical environment. Ecologists have shown how the dynamics within communities are affected by even the seemingly minor changes in species assemblages. Predators and large herbivores have transformed entire landscapes, from the nature of the soil to the flow of rivers, the chemistry of the oceans, and the composition of the atmosphere. The complexity of earth systems is seemingly boundless."
Author: Rachelle Alterman
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781387761
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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National-level spatial planning in democratic countries has been all but ignored by researchers in urban and regional planning since the reconstruction years following World War II. Being synonymous for many with repressive regimes and coercive government practices, national-level planning also fell into some disrepute. A set of specially commissioned papers from leading researchers has produced this challenging and comprehensive study of current national-level planning in ten countries of the developed world. Challenging common assumptions, this comparative international study finds that there seems to be a modest trend whereby, on the threshold of the 21st century, national-level planning has grown in importance in democratic, advanced-economy countries.
Author: Sarah J. Robinson
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0593193539
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.
Author: John Richardson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750994398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 395
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John Richardson is an Oscar-winning special effects supervisor and designer, who has been involved in over 100 movies, including nine James Bond adventures, all eight Harry Potter films, Aliens, Superman, A Bridge Too Far, Straw Dogs, The Omen, Cliffhanger, Far and Away, Willow . . . and many, many more. In creating the magic that flows through these films – by creating huge explosions, beheading people, producing futuristic gadgets, making a man fly or breathing life into creatures that amaze and haunt us – Richardson has come to hold a unique place in cinema history. The son of pioneering FX technician Cliff Richardson, he learned his trade at the feet of a master of the craft. With over five decades of adventures under his belt, and a vast photographic collection of unseen pictures, Richardson now lifts the lid on his exciting and fascinating career of making movie magic.
Author: Michel Houellebecq
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509549978
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated, various attempts were made to offer the individual a minimum of being. The latest of these attempts is advertising, which seeks to arouse desire and transform the subject into a docile phantom doomed to follow advertising’s every whim. But, like all previous attempts, this skin-deep, superficial participation in the world fails, and unhappiness and depression continue to spread. However, we can all produce a cold revolution in ourselves by stepping outside the flow of information and advertising. We need to take some time out, unplug the television, turn off our iPhones, stop buying stuff, stop wanting to buy stuff, temporarily detach ourselves and adopt an aesthetic attitude to the world. We just need to stay still for a few seconds. This is one of the key themes developed by Michel Houellebecq in this collection of his texts and interviews from the last three decades. Here he explains and elaborates his point of view, discusses his novels and addresses a wide range of topics from politics, religion and literature to suicide, euthanasia and paedophilia. An indispensable book for anyone interested in the work of one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time.
