Featuring a new foreword by Dr.Lanier Graham, FORM OF BEAUTY introduces the Western world to India ’s most renowned miniatures painter, B.G. Sharma, and his lifetime collection of Krishna art. Sharma ’s art is famous for its elegance of composition, delicacy of detail, and light-suffused colors. His pieces are wonderfully illuminated by Swami Tripurari ’s poetic narrative on th...(展开全部)

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)

In straightforward prose that doesn't mystify art or deny its special allure, prominent art dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a close up and personal view of almost 50 years in the business of art. He engagingly explains art's three kinds of value: commercial; social; and what he terms its essential value - the range of responses to art that we as individuals have...(展开全部)

A companion volume to the critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling World of Edena graphic novel, Moebius Library: The Art of Edena collects four fantastic Edena-related short stories and a motherlode of Moebius illustrations. A celebration of the imagery and creative enthusiasm Moebius held for his Edena universe and his characters Stel and Atan, the short stories "...(展开全部)

A companion volume to the critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling World of Edena graphic novel, Moebius Library: The Art of Edena collects four fantastic Edena-related short stories and a motherlode of Moebius illustrations. A celebration of the imagery and creative enthusiasm Moebius held for his Edena universe and his characters Stel and Atan, the short stories "...(展开全部)

亨利•克伦普顿（Henry A. Crumpton） 1981年就加入中情局，曾任中情局秘密行动处行动官长达24年，然后出任美国反恐协调官，享受无任所大使级别待遇。曾获得中情局最高荣誉——杰出情报勋章。他现在是全球商业咨询公司克伦普顿集团有限责任公司董事长兼首席执行官。

An extraordinarily new business slant on how companies can generate greater profits. Presented in 23 compact lessons, "The Art of Profitability" features an ongoing tutorial between two fictitious individuals.

到外地旅行——多麼令人興奮的念頭啊！通常，人們會找個氣候怡人的地方，見識有趣的風土民情，欣賞能喚起靈感的景物。然而，為什麼成行之後，卻往往覺得猶有遺憾？ 在本書裡，狄波頓帶領我們踏上旅途，從巴貝多、阿姆斯特丹、普羅旺斯、馬德里到西奈沙漠等地，經歷旅行中種種讓人嚮往與失望之處。 狄波頓還安排了許多位嚮導。他們是大名鼎鼎的作家、藝術家或思想家，也是深諳旅行滋味的行家，如梵谷、華滋華斯、福樓拜、波特萊爾、羅斯金，在書中與我們分享旅行的洞見。 透過這些旅程，狄波頓揭露了旅行中隱藏的慾望和錯綜複雜的面相，挑起無法抵擋的神祕幻想，並且指點我們如何提升旅行的快樂指數，遠離煩悶的日常生活，進入一個奇異世界。

The Fast-Paced, Fun-to-Read Guide to Making Better Decisions!How much information do you really need to make a business decision? Why don't past winners keep on winning? When should you fold your hand, and when should you press on? In "The Art of Decisions," Chris Blake reveals the amazing hidden realities beneath human decision making-and helps you optimize every decision you ...(展开全部)