影片用一封无法投递的信件串联起梵高在去世前最后六周里与他生命中最重要的三个人物之间的秘密，带观众穿越回十九世纪末的欧洲，并陪伴梵高走完他最后的人生。影片采用梵高原画作品中的人物原型还原梵高的艺术人生，让观众在享受美得令人窒息的视觉盛宴时，抽丝剥茧地发现隐藏了一个半世纪的秘密。

本书发表于1978年，记录了埃塞俄比亚“末代皇帝”海尔•塞拉西统治的兴亡经过，揭示了这个非洲“雄狮之王”如何从卫国英雄逐渐转变成独裁帝王乃至被叛军驱逐下台的过程。
本书出版后，很快被翻译成英文和德文。1983年，《皇帝》被评为当年最佳图书。1987年英国伦敦皇家剧院把《皇帝》改编成话剧，搬上英国舞台，受到欢迎。1989年该剧又被搬上波兰话剧舞台，在波兰上演多次。
波兰传奇—— 雷沙德•卡普钦斯基（1932-2007）
1957年于日本转道北京，任特派记者。从此开始了四十余年驻外记者的生涯，足迹遍及五洲四洋一百余个国家，特别是深入拉美、非洲、中东等人迹罕至的蛮荒地带，亲临火线，发回弥漫着硝烟的真实报道和照片。
他一生亲历二十七场革命和政变，四次被判死刑，四十余次被拘关押。作为作家，获五十项国内国际大奖，六次提名诺贝尔文学候选人，创作了二十余部文学作品，其中部分作品被译成三十余种文字，在世界广为传播，被誉为二十世纪最具影响力的作家之一。
雷沙德•卡普钦斯基的一生堪称传奇，他身兼记者、诗人、摄影家、文学家多重身份，其身前身后都为他的祖国波兰留下了丰富的财产，被祖国人民誉为“世纪记者”。
末代皇帝——海尔•塞拉西（1892-1975）
1930年政变当国，加冕称帝，统治埃塞俄比亚长达四十五年之久。掌国期间，他积极进行社会政治经济改革，废除奴隶制，带领埃塞俄比亚走出贫穷落后，迈入现代国家体系。二战期间，他更带领军队全力抗击意大利侵略，收复失国，保障埃塞俄比亚独立主权，被人民尊为“埃塞俄比亚之父”，享有“非洲雄狮”的盛誉。
然而统治后期，海尔•塞拉西日益腐败专权，独裁统治愈演愈烈。为保障自己的皇权地位，他无视国内经济恶化，贫富差距日渐严重。七十年代国内大饥荒，饿殍遍地，海尔•塞拉西及其贵族集团依然纵欲享乐。直至全国范围的干旱出现，穷饿的百姓在愤怒中奋起反抗，各地纷纷涌现起义军，皇帝军队也频频倒戈。
海尔•塞拉西最终在兵变政权中丧失皇权，叛军领袖门格图斯执掌新政权。1975年8月27日，临时军政府宣布海尔•塞拉西当天因病逝世，但有传言称其被反对者门格图斯用枕头闷死。至此，这位“末代皇帝”黯然谢幕，雄狮帝国颓然倾覆。

1978年1月第一版,1981年2月第2印

本书乃米沃什应哈佛大学诺顿讲座之约所做的六次讲演的结集。米沃什关于诗歌的见证功能的阐释极其精辟。借助这本小册子，米沃什论述了诗歌之于时代的重要性。米氏所言并非老生常谈，他提醒世人关注的恰恰是诗歌的一个古老的传统，同时对于二十世纪的反省为这一思考维度提供了更为明晰的指向。
米沃什向来直接，甚至简单。他有能力把诗歌的快乐归还给普通读者，而在他的散文中，如同在本书中，他则使你怀疑我们时代知识阶层最大的罪孽，是害怕明显的东西。
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［米沃什］在《诗的见证》中以某种平静、卓越的才智说话，这使得他所作（关于诗歌）的辩护……成为我们时代的一部经典。
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米沃什这六个讲座的重量和意义怎样高估都不为过。《诗的见证》以其浓缩和简洁阐述的力量，为我们提供一把了解米沃什诗学历史哲学、哲学和美学的钥匙。当然，米沃什全部著作提供了对二十世纪困境的最深刻反应之一。他反对各种一般见识，这些见识认为我们文明是没有前景的，而文化的异化则是可无逆转的事实。他的反对，对他的波兰读者来说似乎可能更自然。毕竟，在像波兰这样的国家，当代诗歌不止一次地证明它是社会的存在不可或缺的；它发挥见证现实、抵抗压迫和成为希望来源的作用，这作用不是抽象原理，而是很多人具体和亲身的经验。
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Generative Programming (GP) offers the promise of moving from "one-of-a-kind" software systems to the semi-automated manufacture of wide varieties of software -- essentially, an assembly line for software systems. GP's goal is to model software system families and build software modules such that, given particular requirements specs, highly customized and optimized intermediate or end products can be constructed on demand. This is the first book to cover Generative Programming in depth. The authors, leaders in their field, introduce the two-stage GP development cycle: one stage for designing and implementing a generative domain model, and another for using the model to build concrete systems. They review key differences between generative modeling and processes used for "one-of-a-kind" systems. Next, they introduce key GP concepts such as feature models, and demonstrate "generic programming" techniques for creating components which lend themselves to easy combination and reuse. The book also introduces Aspect Oriented Programming, which allows developers to solve key recurring problems in traditional O-O development; and presents metaprogramming techniques for building powerful program generators. Three detailed case studies demonstrate the entire generative development cycle, from analysis to implementation.

Genetic algorithms are founded upon the principle of evolution, i.e., survival of the fittest. Hence evolution programming techniques, based on genetic algorithms, are applicable to many hard optimization problems, such as optimization of functions with linear and nonlinear constraints, the traveling salesman problem, and problems of scheduling, partitioning, and control. The importance of these techniques is still growing, since evolution programs are parallel in nature, and parallelism is one of the most promising directions in computer science.
The book is self-contained and the only prerequisite is basic undergraduate mathematics. This third edition has been substantially revised and extended by three new chapters and by additional appendices containing working material to cover recent developments and a change in the perception of evolutionary computation.

Reviewers' comments on the first edition: 'Zygmunt Bauman presents a cogently argued and compelling thesis...an important book from a distinguished scholar, that adds a new dimension to the poverty debate' - "British Journal of Sociology". 'It will be of great interest and value to students, teachers and researchers in sociology and social policy! [Bauman] provides a very forceful and sophisticated statement of the case; and a very well written one too. As a wide ranging analysis of our present discontents it is an admirable example of the sort of challenge which sociology at its best can offer to us and our fellow citizens to re-assess and re-think our current social arrangements' - "Work, Employment and Society". 'This is a stylish and persuasive analysis of the transition between the age of the 'society of producers' to that of the 'society of consumers" - Political Studies.It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employment; it is quite a different thing to be poor in a society of consumers, in which life projects are built around consumer choices rather than on work, professional skills or jobs. Where 'being poor' was once linked to being unemployed, today it draws its meaning primarily from the plight of a flawed consumer. This has a significant effect on the way living in poverty is experienced and on the prospects for redeeming its misery. "Work, Consumerism and the New Poor" traces this change over the duration of modern history. It makes an inventory of its social consequences, and considers how effective different ways of fighting poverty and relieving its hardships are.The new edition of this seminal work features: updated coverage of key thinkers in the field; discussion of recent work on redundancy, disposability and exclusion; and, current thinking on the effects of capital flows on different countries and the changes on the shop floor through, for example, business process re-engineering; and, new material on security and vulnerability. It is a key reading for students and lecturers in sociology, politics and social policy, and those with an interest in contemporary social issues.