A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefull...(展开全部)

As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger) brings...(展开全部)

As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at best. With Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (author of the bestselling biographies Benjamin Franklin and Kissinger) brings...(展开全部)

This bold and witty, yet scholarly biography is the first the trace the full life and work of this highly influential and brilliant pediatrician-turned-analyst. This insightful story probes the roots in Winnicott's personal life of his influential concepts, such as the "holding environment" so crucial to psychotherapy and the "transitional object" known to every parent as the "...(展开全部)

著者 | 唐纳德·斯托克（Donald Stoker） 美国著名军事历史学家，现任美国国防大学艾森豪威尔学院教授。1999年至2017年，斯托克任美国海军战争学院海军研究生院“蒙特雷（Monterey）项目”的战略与政策教授。2017—2018学术年期间，他受聘担任奥地利外交学院政治科学杰出富布赖特访问教授。他出版或编辑了11本书籍，其中《克劳塞维茨传》（Clausewitz: His Life and Work）（牛津大学出版社，2014年）入选“英国陆军职业阅读书单”，《大设计：1861—1865年美国内战中的战略》（牛津大学出版社，2010年）荣获著名的弗莱彻·普拉特奖，并入选“美国陆军参谋长的阅读书单”。他的最新著作《美国为何战败：从朝鲜战争到当下的有限战争与美国战略》已于2019年由剑桥大学出版社出版，2022年再版。 译者 | 张伶 退役...(展开全部)

In this highly acclaimed biography, David Minter draws upon a wealth of material, including the novelist's essays, interviews, published and unpublished letters, as well as his poems, stories, and novels, to illuminate the close relationship between the flawed life and the artistic achievement of one of twentieth-century America's most complex literary figures. In the process, ...(展开全部)

On Albert Einstein's seventy-sixth and final birthday, a friend gave him a simple toy made from a broomstick, a brass ball attached to a length of string, and a weak spring. Einstein was delighted: the toy worked on a principle he had conceived fifty years earlier when he was working on his revolutionary theory of gravity--a principle whose implications are still confounding ph...(展开全部)

On Albert Einstein's seventy-sixth and final birthday, a friend gave him a simple toy made from a broomstick, a brass ball attached to a length of string, and a weak spring. Einstein was delighted: the toy worked on a principle he had conceived fifty years earlier when he was working on his revolutionary theory of gravity--a principle whose implications are still confounding ph...(展开全部)

Few have left a deeper impression on the world of typography than Jan Tschichold (1902â74), one of the most outstanding and influential designers of the 20th century. Not only was he was a master in his field, but he wrote a number of highly influential books and became instrumental in promoting the modernist design strategy called the New Typography. This substantial volume co...(展开全部)