文：伦纳·S.马库斯（ Leonard S. Marcus） 著名历史学家、评论家、童书领域活跃的作家和演讲家之一，被誉为世界上“勤劳”、“全能”的童书推广人。毕业于耶鲁大学历史系的马库斯先生，致力于英美童书与童书发展史的研究已逾30年，被誉为当今世界对图画书了解多、 全、深的人之一。他身兼数职，是同时玩转多任务的大师，在全美，乃至全世界童书出版领域享有盛誉。马库斯先生迄今为止的创作和编写约30种，包括童书研究专著：《鲁道夫·凯迪克：无法停止绘画的人》《玛格丽特.怀兹.布朗：被月亮唤醒》《亲爱的天才：厄苏拉.诺德斯特姆书信集》等。 图：海伦·奥克森伯里（Helen Oxenbury） 享誉国际，受欢迎的童书插画家之一。1938年出生于英国萨福克郡，她曾在伦敦的中央艺术学院研习剧院设计。 海伦创作了诸多家喻户晓的经典图画书，如《我们要去捉狗熊》《鸭子农...(展开全部)

A fascinating, beautiful, and definitive account of the life of esteemed artist Helen Oxenbury. Filled with insights that span Helen Oxenbury's life — from her early childhood through a career in children's books that started in 1964 and is still going strong today — here is an exquisitely designed and thoroughly entertaining celebration of one of the finest illustrators of our...(展开全部)

"If ever anyone was born to be a photographer, Helen Levitt was. Looking at these pictures triggers that tingling feeling you get from photographs by artists like Lartigue, Kertész, and Cartier-Bresson: a feeling that the camera is less an expertly operated tool than the seamless extension of a mind and body that are preternaturally alert to the world." (The New York Times)...(展开全部)

An illuminating, erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy–a chronicle that combines historical inquiry and storytelling élan–from one of Britain’s most widely acclaimed and popular historians. As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close to three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beau...(展开全部)

A major new book about the life and legend of the world’s ‘most beautiful woman’ – by the new star of TV history. As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject. Hesiod, a poet born around 700BC and one of the first named authors in history, called her ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’ and the description endured. Even though we have no contemporary...(展开全部)

"At least a dozen of Helen Levitt's photographs seem to me as beautiful, perceptive, satisfying, and enduring as any lyrical work that I know. In their general quality and coherence, moreover, the photographs as a whole body, as a book, seem to me to combine into a unified view of the world, an uninsistent but irrefutable manifesto of a way of seeing, and in a gently and wholly...(展开全部)

For 3,000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.In her search for the identity behind this mythic figure, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes uses Homer’s account of Helen’s life to frame her own investigation. Tracing the cultural impact that Helen has had on both the ancient world ...(展开全部)