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)

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。

The world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest scientific discoveries. "Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore."-- Newsweek

米娜·杜莱辛甘 组织心理学家，同时经营着一家名为TalentInvest的咨询公司。她做了30多年与组织效率和领导者发展相关的咨询工作，客户群体遍布全球公司。她还是一位认证高管教练，帮助高层团队和高管个人提高团队效率和董事会效率。她已发表了多篇论文，出版了多本畅销书。 沃尔夫冈·莱马赫 Corporate Value Associates的合伙人兼总经理（大中华区和印度区）。他曾经担任法国邮政下属GeoPost Intercontinental的CEO与董事会成员，拥有20多年的高级管理经验。

Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just twentyfour, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time. Now, with unique authority and sweeping vision, he gives us the first full account of the genetic revolution—from Mendel’s garden to the double helix to the sequencing of the human genome and beyond. Watson’s lively, panoramic narrative begins with the fancif...(展开全部)