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.

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)

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)

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)

Seduction, in French thinker Baudrillard's apocalyptic discourse, is a power of attraction and fascination capable of subverting mechanical, orgasm-centered sexuality and reality in general. Two chief obstacles to unleashing the potentially liberating forces of seduction are the women's movement and psychoanalysis, charges the author of America and Forget Foucault. While recogn...(展开全部)

Seduction, in French thinker Baudrillard's apocalyptic discourse, is a power of attraction and fascination capable of subverting mechanical, orgasm-centered sexuality and reality in general. Two chief obstacles to unleashing the potentially liberating forces of seduction are the women's movement and psychoanalysis, charges the author of America and Forget Foucault. While recogn...(展开全部)

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of America's most famous economists for good reason. From his acerbic analysis of America's "private wealth and public squalor" to his denunciation of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, Galbraith consistently challenged "conventional wisdom" (a phrase he coined). He did so as a witty commentator on America's political follies and as a versa...(展开全部)

泰奥菲尔·戈蒂耶是法国唯美主义先驱，“为艺术而艺术”的倡导者。1835年发表小说《莫班小姐》，此篇小说序言被公认为唯美主义宣言。他提出“文学可以无视社会道德”的主张，反对文学艺术反映社会问题，认为艺术的价值在于其完美的形式，艺术家任务在于表现形式美。1840年发表诗集《西班牙》，力图用诗来表达造型艺术。代表作《珐琅和雕玉》是他美学观点的具体实践。被奉为艺术的典范。戈蒂耶还撰写小说、游记、戏剧、随笔 、回忆录及大量评论。小说还有《木乃伊传奇》、《弗拉格斯上尉》和短篇小说集《青年法兰西》等。

★国家公共广播电台年度图书之一 由我们杰出的医学史学家之一撰写的揭开DNA结构的竞赛的专业性历史。 詹姆斯·沃森和弗朗西斯-克里克于1953年发现了DNA的双螺旋结构，这是我们对遗传学和分子生物学的现代理解中几乎所有进步的基础。但沃森和克里克是如何做到这一点的--为什么他们是成功者？ 事实上，DNA结构的发现是五个追求科学进步的杰出人物的故事，对他们中的几乎所有人来说，都是追求名利和不朽的前景： 沃森、克里克、罗莎琳-富兰克林、莫里斯-威尔金斯和莱纳斯-鲍林。他们每个人都很有魅力和才华，具有强烈的个性，经常发生冲突。霍华德-马克尔巧妙地再现了激烈的智力旅程和充满矛盾的个人关系，导致了惊人的突破。但是，罗莎琳-富兰克林——在20世纪50年代的剑桥和伦敦大学，作为年轻的男性科学家中的犹太女性，她是一个坚定的、无情的、局外人——成为马可的焦点。 《生命的秘...(展开全部)