Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic vision remains palpably present today, through the countless statues, fountains, and bu...(展开全部)

A new biography with all accessible paintings illustrated in colour. <br />Traces the life and career of the seventeenth-century painter, shows all of his works, and offers a fresh analysis of each painting.

Celebrated in his own time as well as the present,Rembrandt's works have remarkable staying power. His output was prodigious, totalling around 600 paintings, 300 etchings and 2,000 drawings ranging from commissioned portraits to landscapes to religious allegories. In spite of his longstanding popularity, however, authoritative accounts of Rembrandt's life and work have been dif...(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)

'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' – Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors. ‘A notorious fiend’, ‘generally odious’, ‘he seems hideous, and so he is.’ Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Mach...(展开全部)

This definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he founded. First published in Italian, and now translated, updated, and expanded for English readers, this concise chronological narrative is the most authoritative account of Aristotle's life and his Lyceum available in any language. Ga...(展开全部)

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev. When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communis...(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)

When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989 he had transformed Soviet Communism. By 1990 he, more than anyone else, had ended the Cold War, and in December 1991 he unintentionally presided over the collapse of the USSR. In this first comprehensive biography of Gorbachev, William Taubman shows how...(展开全部)