The Roman author Pliny tells the story - well known in the Renaissance - of the famous Greek painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to overhear the comments of spectators. Martin Kemp takes this motif as an effective point of entry into the problem of what lies behind the business of picture-making in the Renaissance, in particular the role of the artist and the func...(展开全部)

The Roman author Pliny tells the story--well known in the Renaissance--of famed Grecian painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to overhear comments of viewers. Martin Kemp provides an introductory text on Italian Renaissance art that brings the period alive through a wealth of visual and written evidence and extensive quotations from original sources.

《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》收录了超过80位一流国际插图设计师的445幅插图作品，力求把美洲、欧洲和亚洲的精彩插图一网打尽{《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》是一部适合专业人士和初学者阅读的，集合了来自全球的插图作者最新力作的综合性图鉴。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》由享有盛誉的设计师安格斯?黑兰德编纂，呈现出并代表了当前插图发展趋势和变革的多种风格、技术以及社会客观因素的广阔图景，它是对当代插图艺术的绝妙概括。因此，它对插图作者、平面造型设计师和任何致力于插图业的人士来说，都将是无价之宝。 每位艺术家的作品都配有作者自述和一段简短的、可以展示创作灵感及其作品和职业发展路径的叙述性文字。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》包括445幅插图，其中...(展开全部)

In this new brief introduction to the rich and complex discipline of sociology, Jon Witt cuts to the core of the sociological perspective, supplying answers to two main questions: "Why do we think the way we think?" and "Why do we act the way we act?" Providing students with a glimpse of the "Big Picture," the author offers a top-down look at the structure of society, which all...(展开全部)

《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》收录了超过80位一流国际插图设计师的445幅插图作品，力求把美洲、欧洲和亚洲的精彩插图一网打尽{《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》是一部适合专业人士和初学者阅读的，集合了来自全球的插图作者最新力作的综合性图鉴。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》由享有盛誉的设计师安格斯?黑兰德编纂，呈现出并代表了当前插图发展趋势和变革的多种风格、技术以及社会客观因素的广阔图景，它是对当代插图艺术的绝妙概括。因此，它对插图作者、平面造型设计师和任何致力于插图业的人士来说，都将是无价之宝。 每位艺术家的作品都配有作者自述和一段简短的、可以展示创作灵感及其作品和职业发展路径的叙述性文字。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》包括445幅插图，其中...(展开全部)

In this new brief introduction to the rich and complex discipline of sociology, Jon Witt cuts to the core of the sociological perspective, supplying answers to two main questions: "Why do we think the way we think?" and "Why do we act the way we act?" Providing students with a glimpse of the "Big Picture," the author offers a top-down look at the structure of society, which all...(展开全部)

当代法国侦探小说作家，硕果仅存的坚持本格侦探小说创作的欧美作家，被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。 霍尔特一九五六年出生于法国东北部亚尔萨斯省的阿格诺。一九八七年以《第四扇门》一书获得干邑侦探小说奖而正式出道。之后陆续创作以“阿兰•图威斯特博士”为主人公的系列作品及其他系列作品，代表作有《第七重解答》、《达特穆尔的恶魔》、《恶狼之夜》等。霍尔特的绝大多数作品都是描写不可能犯罪的正统解谜之作，以密室、不在场证明、足迹消失等核心诡计为卖点，凭借异想天开的构思、缜密的逻辑推导以及意料之外、情理之中的解答征服了广大读者，成为当代欧美侦探小说作家中最为“古典”、“另类”的一位，是当之无愧的当代本格侦探小说的领军人物。

在线阅读本书 A comprehensive, flexible, and up-to-date vocabulary reference and teaching tool for English language learning. The Oxford Picture Dictionary and its components create a highly teachable programme that can be used as a complete, four-skills beginning course, or as a language development supplement and practical reference. NEW Grammar Activity Book

Behind the Glass takes its title from Alexandra Catiere’s series shot in Minsk and Moscow in 2005-2006. Curated and designed by Chose Commune, this book brings together photographs from this early unpublished series with additional selected images. Included is a new set of photograms; the artist’s latest camera-less experiments composed of light, sensitized paper, pebbles and g...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Enthralled by a portrait of himself, young Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to exchange his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Thus he is able to indulge in his desires, as only the portrait bears the traces of his decadence and becomes a nightmarish picture of his soul. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Mighall Preface by Peter Ackroyd