In this beautiful meditation on the history of art and the problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous and organic artistic creation within the shifting ...(展开全部)

In this beautiful meditation on the history of art and the problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants, one of his great achievements was to lodge a concept of autonomous and organic artistic creation within the shifting ...(展开全部)

[英] 布赖恩·莱弗里（Brian Lavery） 英国国家海事博物馆名誉馆长，西方学界享有声望的海洋史研究者与推广者。 他在英国国家海事博物馆工作长达14年，其间举办了各种海洋主题展览，宣讲航海、船舶知识，他还曾在英国和欧洲开展海上巡游。在向大众普及海洋历史常识方面，莱弗里做出过显著贡献，西方媒体评价他为“杰出的历史学家”。 莱弗里不到30岁开始写作，至今著有30多部海洋史著作。此外，他还担任过奥斯卡获奖影片《怒海争锋》的历史顾问。2009年在英国引起全民轰动的热播纪录片《海洋帝国》，也邀请了他进行学术指导。

A captivating read spanning 5,000 years of the ocean's history Conquest of the Ocean tells the 5,000 year history of the remarkable individuals who sailed seas, for trade, to conquer new lands, to explore the unknown. From the early Polynesians to the first circumnavigations by the Portuguese and the British, these are awe-inspiring tales of epic sea voyages involving great fea...(展开全部)

Eugenie Brinkema is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

What is the relationship between a cinematic grid of color and that most visceral of negative affects, disgust? How might anxiety be a matter of an interrupted horizontal line, or grief a figure of blazing light? Offering a bold corrective to the emphasis on embodiment and experience in recent affect theory, Eugenie Brinkema develops a novel mode of criticism that locates the f...(展开全部)

西蒙·温彻斯特（Simon Winchester），英国著名作家、探险家、记者，中文名文思淼。生于1944年，1966年自牛津大学地质学专业毕业后，游历过世界很多地方，曾担任《卫报》20余年的海外记者及《星期日泰晤士报》的海外特派员。近年一直为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》、BBC、《观察家》、《史密森学会月刊》等一线媒体撰稿。 他著有多部作品，包括《大西洋的故事》（Atlantic）、《教授与疯子》（the Professor and the Madman）、《李约瑟：揭开中国神秘面纱的人》（The Man Who Loved China）、《OED的故事》（The Meaning of Everything）、《世界边缘的裂缝》（A Crack in the Edge of the World）、《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Ch...(展开全部)

Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever. In The Art of Statistics, David ...(展开全部)