This awe-inspiring collection of over 500 amazing photographs will open your eyes to the wonders of life under the canopy. The result of nature photographer, Thomas Marent's 16-year journey across five continents, Rainforest celebrates the fascinating behaviour and incredible variety of rainforest animals and plants - from resourceful leaf-cutter ants to the multi-hued clouds o...(展开全部)

Bird Planet presents the best work of Tim Laman, the world’s most celebrated bird photographer Birder extraordinaire Tim Laman is a superstar in one of photography’s most challenging pursuits: The quest to portray birds in the wild. A naturalist and explorer as well as a brilliant image maker, he has spent thousands of hours over more than 30 years wedged precariously in the to...(展开全部)

As photography became an increasingly accessible medium in the twentieth century, the popularity of the photographic album exploded, yielding a wonderful range of objects made for varying purposes—to memorialize, document (officially or unofficially), promote, or educate and sometimes simply to channel creative energy. Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography tr...(展开全部)

As photography became an increasingly accessible medium in the twentieth century, the popularity of the photographic album exploded, yielding a wonderful range of objects made for varying purposes—to memorialize, document (officially or unofficially), promote, or educate and sometimes simply to channel creative energy. Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography tr...(展开全部)

Selected from across Capote's writing life, the stories range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans and whisky to bake into fruitcakes, make kites - too broke to buy gifts - and rise before d...(展开全部)

杜鲁门·卡坡蒂（Truman Capote, 1924-1984），20世纪中叶美国最富传奇色彩的天才作家，在文坛和名流圈中都曾辉映一时，著有短篇小说集、长篇小说和剧本若干。少时习作以短篇小说起步，两度获欧·亨利奖。1966以长篇纪实小说《冷血》蜚声世界。《圣诞忆旧集》是其短篇小说代表作。

杜鲁门·卡坡蒂（Truman Capote, 1924-1984），20世纪中叶美国最富传奇色彩的天才作家，在文坛和名流圈中都曾辉映一时，著有短篇小说集、长篇小说和剧本若干。少时习作以短篇小说起步，两度获欧·亨利奖。1966以长篇纪实小说《冷血》蜚声世界。《圣诞忆旧集》是其短篇小说代表作。

As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how it works. With Inadvertent Images, Peter Geimer explores all kinds of photographic irritation from throughout the history of the ...(展开全部)

As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how it works. With Inadvertent Images, Peter Geimer explores all kinds of photographic irritation from throughout the history of the ...(展开全部)

Presenting a mesmerizing picture both of British intellectual life in the 1940's and ‘50's and the mental, emotional, and cultural formation of a man destined to transform many aspects of that world over the next 40 years, Episodes is both a gripping story and a vividly analytic tour de force. From early childhood in Cardiff and the valleys of South Wales to school and adoles...(展开全部)