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)

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.

Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked and fought together. In this short book Paul Veyne offers a fresh portrait of his friend and relaunches the debate about his ideas and legacy. ‘Foucault is not who you think he is’, write...(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)

The truth about the most important woman in America In Her Way , two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalists deliver: Previously undisclosed details about the Clinton's multi-decade plan for powerincluding 8 years in the White House for Bill and 8 years for Hillary Never-before-revealed information about Hillary's involvement in her ...(展开全部)

Neighbors saw Enoch Wallace as an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. They must never know that inside his unchanging house, he met and conversed with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars. More than a hundred years before, an alien being named Uly...(展开全部)

阿卜杜勒拉扎克•古尔纳，坦桑尼亚裔英国作家，2021年因“他对殖民主义文学的影响，以及对身处于不同文化夹缝中难民处境毫不妥协且富有同情心的洞察”而获诺贝尔文学奖。古尔纳1948年出生于东非海岸的桑给巴尔岛，20世纪60年代移居英国并求学，最终在肯特大学获得博士学位，留校任教至今。他的主要学术兴趣是后殖民主义写作和与殖民主义有关的论述，特别是与非洲、加勒比和印度有关的论述。曾担任凯恩非洲文学奖和布克奖评审，2006年入选皇家文学学会。古尔纳的作品围绕难民主题，主要描述殖民地人民的生存状况，聚焦于身份认同、种族冲突及历史书写等，他展现的后殖民时代生存现状被认为具有重要的社会现实意义。代表作有《天堂》《海边》《来世》等。

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021** An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his past and the meaning of his pilgrimage to England Dear Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you to dinner. I don't really know how to do it. To have cultural integrity, I would have to s...(展开全部)