Newly independent in 1585, the increasingly prosperous and politically powerful Dutch Republic experienced a tremendous rise in the production of artwork that was unparalleled in quantity, variety, and beauty. Now back in print, this classic book (originally published in 1996) examines the country's rich artistic culture in the seventeenth century, providing a full account of D...(展开全部)

This best-selling book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success is valued for its timeless insights on how to make one's way in the world. Written in the seventeenth century by a Spanish Jesuit, these teachings are strikingly modern in tone, putting strategy above ethics while reminding the reader that the true search for excellence begins with perfecting o...(展开全部)

《荷兰共和国的艺术(1585－1718)》将人物和作品置于当时的环境中观照，研究了为17世纪荷兰共和国艺术市场而生产的作品、相关产品及绘画的欣赏、蚀刻画和插图书的贸易以及此一时期艺术和建筑之间的关系。《荷兰共和国的艺术(1585－1718)》还梳理了荷兰绘画艺术史的一些主要问题，包括国家意识的增强和表达、以肖像画庆祝或检验个人，以及艺术家自己地位的改变等，全面展示荷兰人物画、风景画和风俗画的新奇，圣经题材画和神话题材绘画的多样含义的同时，也揭示了其所奠基的此一时期科学、商业和信仰文化基础。这本重要的新书将创新性的艺术史方法和最新的思想运用到荷兰艺术上，以经典艺术作品为档案，整理出了纹理丰富而明晰的荷兰文化图景。

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of ar...(展开全部)

Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020 *The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller and a 'Book of the Year' 2019* Selected as Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Washington Post, Herald and Good Housekeeping A heart-wrenching new novel of the unbreakable bond between a brother and sister, their childhood home, and a past that will not let them go - from the Number...(展开全部)

First published in 2000, this translation of one of the great works of Western political thought is based on the assumption that when Plato chose the dialogue form for his writing, he intended these dialogues to sound like conversations - although conversations of a philosophical sort. In addition to a vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text, the student and gen...(展开全部)

本书以正义范畴为讨论的中心，以对话体的形式，谈及了道德、教育、专政、民主、独裁、共产、文艺、宗教以及男女平权等问题。