The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabalists, Rosicrucians, and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, c...(展开全部)

A fantastic journey through the history of esoteric lore: the great work of the alchemists (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition) The Hermetic Museum takes its readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the mediaeval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs...(展开全部)

约翰尼斯•费边，著名人类学家，曾在美国西北大学、卫斯理学院等多所大学执教，担任波恩大学、科隆大学、巴黎大学的访问学者。退休前任教于荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学，现居德国。他写了很多批评性的著作，《时间与他者》是他的代表作，这本书是人类学领域的经典著作，改变了人类学家“建立研究对象”的方法。

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect desc...(展开全部)

Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He was elected member of Institut International de Philosophie in 2001 and of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2007. From 2001 to 2007 he served as president of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, and he is currently co-editor in chief of ...(展开全部)

Women, Art, and Power-seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history-brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.

From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books , the Atlantic , the New Republic , ...(展开全部)

伊莱娜·内米洛夫斯基，1903年出生于俄国基辅的一个乌克兰犹太银行家家庭，“十月革命”后，她随家人移居巴黎，入读索邦大学。1929年，她凭借处女作小说《大卫·格德尔》迎来了文学上的成功。内米洛夫斯基活跃于二十世纪三十年代的巴黎文坛。然而，由于她的犹太身份，尽管她于1939年皈依天主教，仍无法获得法国国籍。第二次世界大战的巴黎大逃亡之后，她躲在法国东部一个小镇里，后遭法国宪兵逮捕，于1942年8月17日被杀害于奥维辛集中营。 2004年，内米洛夫斯基的长女德尼斯将母亲遗物中找到的未完成小说《法兰西组曲》整理出版，获得当年度法国雷诺多文学奖，这是该奖历史上第一次颁给一位去世作家。内米洛夫斯基和她的作品重新受到世界的关注。 《星期天》是内米洛夫斯基出版的唯一一部短篇小说集。这些创作于1934年至1942年间的短篇小说，像《法兰西组曲》一样，探究法国各阶层的...(展开全部)

Written between 1934 and 1942, these 10 stories by the author of "Suite Francaise" mine the same terrain as her bestselling novels. Nemirovsky achieves her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity.--"The Washington Post Book World."