In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses , came under severe criticism for The Art of Love , which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conquest. In this remarkable translation, James Michie breathes new life into the notorious Roman’s mock-didactic ele...(展开全部)

‘When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love…’ Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother s loneliness Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive ...(展开全部)

Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity. T...(展开全部)

Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity. T...(展开全部)

Newly revised and updated edition of this award-winning book.This winner of the National Art Book Prize is a richly detailed and fully illustrated survey of Chinese art, ideal for students and all those interested in China.Chinese silks and porcelains, unsurpassed for over a thousand years, have been prized around the world for their fine textures and brilliant colours. Paradox...(展开全部)

德沃夏克 MaxDvorak (1874-1921)，维也纳美术史学派的后起之秀，继维克霍夫和李格尔之后最重要的学者。在学派传统基础上，他以自己精湛的学术研究，形成了一种独特的研究方法，被后人称为"作为精神史的美术史"，其要旨可以表述为：要理解任何一个时期的艺术，关键是要 了解这个时期的精神史。

1- True Brit 2- Arrival 3- The Telephone Box 4- Dress Sense 5- Tea 6- Complaining 7- Politeness 8- Speak Slowly 9- Pronunciation 10- Top Tongue 11- Sense of Humour 12- Body Idioms 13- Terms of Endearment 14- Learning by Doing 15- Pubs 16- Meeting and Greeting 17- Test You English 18- Real English 19- The Bathroom 20- Bed 21- Pets 22- Heavenly Hosts 23- Enjoy Your Meal! 24- Fish...(展开全部)

1- True Brit 2- Arrival 3- The Telephone Box 4- Dress Sense 5- Tea 6- Complaining 7- Politeness 8- Speak Slowly 9- Pronunciation 10- Top Tongue 11- Sense of Humour 12- Body Idioms 13- Terms of Endearment 14- Learning by Doing 15- Pubs 16- Meeting and Greeting 17- Test You English 18- Real English 19- The Bathroom 20- Bed 21- Pets 22- Heavenly Hosts 23- Enjoy Your Meal! 24- Fish...(展开全部)

In 1764, Johann Joachim Winckelmann published a key early instance of art-historical thinking, his "Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums", here translated into English for the first time. Dazzled by the sensuous and plastic beauty of recently excavated artifacts - coins, engraved gems, vases, paintings, reliefs, and statues - Winckelmann synthesized the visual and written eviden...(展开全部)

In 1764, Johann Joachim Winckelmann published a key early instance of art-historical thinking, his "Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums", here translated into English for the first time. Dazzled by the sensuous and plastic beauty of recently excavated artifacts - coins, engraved gems, vases, paintings, reliefs, and statues - Winckelmann synthesized the visual and written eviden...(展开全部)