菲利普•斯塔德曼是伦敦大学学院城市与建筑形式学教授。他接受过建筑学教育，曾在剑桥大学及英国开放大学任教。他曾出版几本有关建筑当中的几何形式和计算机辅助设计的书籍。在20世纪60年代，他编辑并出版了《形式》[Form ]杂志，这是一份艺术季刊；他还和其他作者合作出版了一本有关动态艺术的书籍。1989年，他帮助伦敦的一个展览制作了四部有关列奥纳多•达•芬奇作品的数码动画。他也曾参与其他有关透视几何与艺术史的展览、电影与书籍制作。《维米尔的暗箱》是斯塔德曼对维米尔这位荷兰艺术家长达20年的痴迷的成果。

Over 100 years of speculation and controversy surround claims that the great 17th-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western art. This intellectual detective story starts by exploring Vermeer's possible knowledge of 17th-century optical science, and outlines the history of this early version of the photogr...(展开全部)

Over 100 years of speculation and controversy surround claims that the great 17th-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura to create some of the most famous images in Western art. This intellectual detective story starts by exploring Vermeer's possible knowledge of 17th-century optical science, and outlines the history of this early version of the photogr...(展开全部)

菲利普•斯塔德曼是伦敦大学学院城市与建筑形式学教授。他接受过建筑学教育，曾在剑桥大学及英国开放大学任教。他曾出版几本有关建筑当中的几何形式和计算机辅助设计的书籍。在20世纪60年代，他编辑并出版了《形式》[Form ]杂志，这是一份艺术季刊；他还和其他作者合作出版了一本有关动态艺术的书籍。1989年，他帮助伦敦的一个展览制作了四部有关列奥纳多•达•芬奇作品的数码动画。他也曾参与其他有关透视几何与艺术史的展览、电影与书籍制作。《维米尔的暗箱》是斯塔德曼对维米尔这位荷兰艺术家长达20年的痴迷的成果。

J.M.库切 J. M. Coetzee 1940年生于南非，当代最重要的作家之一，两次获得布克奖，2003年诺贝尔文学奖得主。作品包括《等待野蛮人》《迈克尔·K的生活和时代》《耻》《夏日》《耶稣的童年》，等等。库切现居澳大利亚。 阿拉贝拉·库尔茨 Arabella Kurtz 英国心理学家，曾在英国国家卫生局的法医心理健康部门担任要职，目前是英国莱斯特大学临床心理学高级导师。

Praise for THE GOOD STORY "Coetzee's writing is characteristically spare and penetrating....Kurtz proves both a lucid expositor and an evocative literary stylist, bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practices to life with rare precision and immediacy." —Literary Review "It is the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist's agenda that drives the absorbing discussions of this book. Kurtz'...(展开全部)

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to...(展开全部)

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his...(展开全部)

On April 12 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to leave the Earth's atmosphere and venture into space. An icon of the 20th century, he also became a danger to himself and a threat to the Soviet state. At the age of 34, he was killed in a plane crash. Based on KGB files, restricted documents from Russian space authorities, and interviews with his friends and colleagues, t...(展开全部)