As Seen is a series of publications that review the work of Chinese artists as presented in public museums and galleries in China. As S een is not exhaustive, but it is the result of extensive exhibition-going. With particular focus on the achievements of young artists, As Seen 2 continues to track the pulse of the times as it underscores artistic content and form. ...............(展开全部)

Reprinted for the first time since its original publication twenty years ago, The Face of China is an evocative and candid collection of some of the first photographs made in that country. Along with descriptive captions, these images describe the daily life and surroundings of an era now passed. The people are as seen through Western eyes, and the places are as traversed by...(展开全部)

'Annie Ernaux's work', wrote Richard Bernstein in the "New York Times", 'represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory'. In the "New York Times Book Review", Kathryn Harrison concurred: 'Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse'. In this 'jo...(展开全部)

'Annie Ernaux's work', wrote Richard Bernstein in the "New York Times", 'represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory'. In the "New York Times Book Review", Kathryn Harrison concurred: 'Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse'. In this 'jo...(展开全部)

'Annie Ernaux's work', wrote Richard Bernstein in the "New York Times", 'represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory'. In the "New York Times Book Review", Kathryn Harrison concurred: 'Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse'. In this 'jo...(展开全部)

'Annie Ernaux's work', wrote Richard Bernstein in the "New York Times", 'represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory'. In the "New York Times Book Review", Kathryn Harrison concurred: 'Keen language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse'. In this 'jo...(展开全部)

Acclaimed photographer Mary Ellen Mark (b.1940) has secured exclusive backstage access to some of the most famous actors and directors in film history Captures life on the sets of legendary movies Apocalypse Now and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, as well more recent productions such as the Oscar-winning films Moulin Rouge, Babel and Sweeney Todd Includes powerful portraits of...(展开全部)

A riveting inside look at the turbulent, controversial world of the futures markets through the eyes of the man who made them what they are today. Melamed relates how he helped create the futures markets and the changes they wrought in the financial world of the 1980s, the importance of futures markets to the global economy, the debate over them in the wake of the 1987 crash an...(展开全部)

"Professor Hughes offers an earnest warning: 'Unless there is some emotional tie, some elective affinity linking the student to his subject of study, the results will be pedantic and perfunctory.' In other words, it is only a step from the sublime to the meticulous. Those eager to guard against that sad descent will find "History as Art and as Science" a guide, a tonic, and an ...(展开全部)