Age of Silver is iconic American photographer John Loengard’s ode to the art form to which he dedicated his life. Loengard, a longtime staff photographer and editor for LIFE magazine and other publications, spent years documenting modern life for the benefit of the American public. Over the years he trained his camera on dignitaries, artists, athletes, intellectuals, blue a...(展开全部)

约翰·洛恩加德（John Loengard），1934年出生在美国纽约。当他还在哈佛大学读四年级时，他就开始为《生活》杂志拍摄专业照片。《生活》杂志改为月刊后的1978—1987年期间，他担任图片编辑。1986年，《生活》在他的领导下获得了美国杂志编辑协会颁发的第一个“摄影卓越奖”。2004年，他获得时代公司颁发的摄影师梦寐以求的“亨利•R•卢斯终身成就奖”。2005年，《美国摄影》杂志将洛恩加德评选为“摄影界zui具影响力的100人之一”。他是九本摄影书的作者，包括《庆祝负片》（Celebrating the Negative，Arcade Publishing，1994）、《如我所见》（As I See It，Vendome Press，2005）和《每时每刻》（Moment By Moment，Thames & Hudson，2016）。 朱鸿...(展开全部)

This is a volume of living history the history of our times, as seen by the photographers who captured it. It is the most comprehensive anthology of Life photography ever assembled, and illustrates the strengths that made many of these individuals famous and Life great. This book, an enormous international success in hardback, is now available in a new, compact, paperback editi...(展开全部)

This is a volume of living history the history of our times, as seen by the photographers who captured it. It is the most comprehensive anthology of Life photography ever assembled, and illustrates the strengths that made many of these individuals famous and Life great. This book, an enormous international success in hardback, is now available in a new, compact, paperback editi...(展开全部)

From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives : the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness” predicted by an ancient Hindu cosmology in a final epoch of strife and corruption, ...(展开全部)

Part photo essay and part travel diary, this moving book reflects Kazuyoshi Nomachi's own spiritual quest and his interest in pilgrimages, or, as he calls them, "prayer routes." Here, through dramatic images that distill the essence of our humanity, the acclaimed photographer captures moments of prayer along pilgrimage routes in some of the world's most remote places, from the ...(展开全部)

威廉·达尔林普尔(William Dalrymple)，英国历史学家、作家、播音员、评论员，伦敦皇家学会会员，皇家地理学会会员，皇家天文学会会员，斋浦尔文学节联合创始人。著有《仙那度》《精灵之城》《圣山来客》《王的归程》等，曾获托马斯·库克旅游文学奖、《星期日泰晤士报》年度英国青年作家奖、海明威奖、卡普钦斯基文学奖、法国星盘图书奖、沃尔夫森历史奖、苏格兰年度图书奖、达夫·库珀纪念奖、亚洲之家亚洲文学奖等诸多奖项。2012年，达尔林普尔担任普林斯顿大学人文学院惠特尼·J.奥茨客座研究员。他与妻子和三个孩子居住在德里城外的农场。

Kali Yuga (Devanāgarī: कलियुग [kəli juɡə], lit. "age of (the male demon) Kali", or "age of vice") is the last of the four stages that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas described in the Indian scriptures. ----------------------------- The result of 10 year's living and traveling throughout the Indian subcontinent, The Age of Kali emerges from Dalrymple's uneas...(展开全部)

The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, somet...(展开全部)

A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs reigned supreme for centuries until the conquests of Alexan...(展开全部)