Ralph Mayer (1895-1979) 是一位画家和艺术保护者。他接受过化学工程师的教育，在油漆制造行业工作，并在纽约艺术学生联盟学习绘画，然后在哥伦比亚大学任教。他于1959年创立了艺术家技术研究所。他最出名的著作是《艺术家材料与技术手册》（1940年），至今仍是艺术家的参考书，另外还有《画家的手艺》（1948年）和艺术术语和技术词典（1969）等著作。

作为艺术类工具权威作者的经典著作，涵括3200个以上的条目，包含法文、意大利文等原文词汇，通过简明的诠释，意在为专业研究者和创作者用简洁的解释“建构一部通用的参考书”。初版便深受好评，1991年经史蒂文·希恩组织校订后，又一版再版。它是欧美国家的艺术院校的教师和学生的必备书之一。

Completely revised and updated in its fifth edition, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics is the standard single-volume reference for its field. The fifth edition incorporates new words or senses that have developed in linguistics recently, based on recommendations by a team of experts in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and sociolinguistics. The dictionary now incl...(展开全部)

Written for students of linguistics, applied linguistics and speech therapy, this dictionary covers over 2,000 terms in phonetics and phonology. In addition to providing a comprehensive, yet concise, guide to an enormous number of individual terms, it also includes an explanation of the most important theoretical approaches to phonology. Its usefulness as a reference tool is fu...(展开全部)

Written for students of linguistics, applied linguistics and speech therapy, this dictionary covers over 2,000 terms in phonetics and phonology. In addition to providing a comprehensive, yet concise, guide to an enormous number of individual terms, it also includes an explanation of the most important theoretical approaches to phonology. Its usefulness as a reference tool is fu...(展开全部)

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's "Fountain." But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and other intellectual projects dramatically transformed the discipline. The first edition of "Critical Terms fo...(展开全部)

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's "Fountain." But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and other intellectual projects dramatically transformed the discipline. The first edition of "Critical Terms fo...(展开全部)

M. H. Abrams AKA Meyer Howard Abrams Born: 23-Jul-1912 Birthplace: Long Branch, NJ Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Mirror and the Lamp Military service: Psycho-Acoustics Laboratory, Harvard (WWII, classified research) Wife: Ruth Claire Gaynes (married 62+ yea...(展开全部)

M. H. Abrams AKA Meyer Howard Abrams Born: 23-Jul-1912 Birthplace: Long Branch, NJ Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Mirror and the Lamp Military service: Psycho-Acoustics Laboratory, Harvard (WWII, classified research) Wife: Ruth Claire Gaynes (married 62+ yea...(展开全部)

From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold invention–and a fascinating, comic, deepl...(展开全部)