What is the function of art in the era of digital gloablisation? How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the audience is pumped for tweets to a future of “neurocurating,” in which paintings surveil ...(展开全部)

The greatest military textbook of the nineteenth century, this famous analysis of the art of Napoleonic warfare had a profound influence upon the military education of American officers in the decades prior to the Civil War.

Review A "Washington Post" best-seller " Absorb this book, and you can throw out all those contemporary books about management leadership." — "Newsweek" " A breast-pocket favorite of many commanders and U.S. Marines." — "Christian Science Monitor" " "The Art of War" soon could join Machiavelli's "The Prince" as required reading in the executive suite." — "USA Today"

Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, Art of War is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the history and theory of war in the West. Christopher Lynch's fluid translatio...(展开全部)

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand t...(展开全部)

Picking up where the blockbuster hit Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron left off, Marvel's Captain America: Civil War sees Steve Rogers leading the new team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. After another international incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability: A govern...(展开全部)

The first major illustrated survey of this exciting, new, and experimental field. Building on the traditions of art history and using advanced technologies, digital artists push the boundaries of artistic expression and explore some of the most urgent social, political, and biological issues facing humankind today. Traditional activities such as painting and sculpture have be...(展开全部)

"The magnum opus of one of America's most respected military historians, "The Art of War in the Western World" has earned its place as the standard work on how the three major operational components of war - tactics, logistics, and strategy - have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Gre...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 梅天穆（Timothy May），美国北乔治亚大学文学院教授、副院长，主要研究领域为蒙古帝国史及军事史。1996年在美国印第安纳大学内陆欧亚系获得硕士学位，2004年获得威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学博士学位，著有《世界历史上的蒙古征服》《蒙古帝国》等。 【译者简介】 董汝洋，北京大学历史学系博士研究生，专业方向为元史。

【作者简介】 梅天穆（Timothy May），美国北乔治亚大学文学院教授、副院长，主要研究领域为蒙古帝国史及军事史。1996年在美国印第安纳大学内陆欧亚系获得硕士学位，2004年获得威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学博士学位，著有《世界历史上的蒙古征服》《蒙古帝国》等。 【译者简介】 董汝洋，北京大学历史学系博士研究生，专业方向为元史。