This book documents in pictures the most exciting and diverse period in fashion: from 1900 to today, covering high society, uniforms, sportswear, streetwear and couture. It will appeal to everyone with an interest in fashion as well as students. The last hundred or so years bore witness to the transformation of womens fashion. The restrictive corsetry of the early twentieth cen...(展开全部)

A visual feast of 400 dazzling images, this is a comprehensive survey of the genre over the last century. The book also offers an overview of the development of fashion, as seen through the eyes of the greatest illustrators of the day. Early in the century fashion illustration reflected new, liberating currents in art and culture, such as the exoticism of the Ballets Russes, wh...(展开全部)

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results found in a hundred years than in all of previous history. In "The Mathematical Century", Piergiorgio Odifreddi distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge into a fascinating and authoritative overview of the subject. He concentrates on thi...(展开全部)

The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results found in a hundred years than in all of previous history. In "The Mathematical Century", Piergiorgio Odifreddi distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge into a fascinating and authoritative overview of the subject. He concentrates on thi...(展开全部)

Passion For Fashion The 20th century saw fashion evolve from an exclusive Parisian salon business catering to a wealthy elite, into a global industry employing millions, with new trends whisked into stores before the last model has left the catwalk. Along the way, the signature feminine silhouettes of each era evolved beyond recognition: House of Worth crinolines gave way to Vi...(展开全部)

Passion For Fashion The 20th century saw fashion evolve from an exclusive Parisian salon business catering to a wealthy elite, into a global industry employing millions, with new trends whisked into stores before the last model has left the catwalk. Along the way, the signature feminine silhouettes of each era evolved beyond recognition: House of Worth crinolines gave way to Vi...(展开全部)

This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extr...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters， a large middle-class London family， from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endures and remembers heart-break， loss， radical change and stifling conformity， marriage and regret. Written in 1937， this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's nov...(展开全部)

弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫（Virginia Woolf，1882—1941），英国女作家，被誉为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义文学的先锋。第二次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界的核心人物，是布卢姆茨伯里派的成员之一。最知名的小说包括《达洛维太太》、《到灯塔去》、《雅各的房间》等。 吴尔夫革新了英语语言，在小说中尝试意识流的写作方法，试图描绘在人们心底里的潜意识。她在文学上的成就和创造性至今仍然产生很大的影响。

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, THE YEARS is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising, and news headlines. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for ever-proliferating objects are given voice here. The voi...(展开全部)