肯尼斯•克拉克（Kenneth Clark，1903—1983），20世纪杰出的艺术史家、作家、策展人、纪录片主持人。二十七岁即任牛津大学阿什莫尔博物馆馆长，三十岁出任英国国家美术馆馆长，并在第二次世界大战期间，主持了战时艺术家计划，保障了艺术收藏品的安全。战争结束后，曾任牛津大学斯莱德教授。进入20世纪50年代，创作了多部艺术类电视纪录片并担当主持人。1969年，随着首部关于艺术的大型彩色电视纪录片《文明》的面世，成为享誉世界的艺术大师。2014年，英国泰特美术馆举办专题展览纪念肯尼斯•克拉克，称誉其为“具有世纪影响力的英国艺术大家”，并感谢他在“将艺术带给大众”事业上做出的杰出贡献。

Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entang...(展开全部)

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War. In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." Resistance,...(展开全部)

In this collection, David Graeber revisits questions raised in his popular book, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Employing an unpretentious style to convey complex ideas, these twelve essays cover a lot of ground: the origins of capitalism, the history of European table manners, love potions and gender in rural Madagascar, the phenomenology of giant puppets at street pr...(展开全部)

In recent and ongoing uprisings all around the world, from Santiago to Hong Kong, many of the protesters' aims have been consistent: justice, an end to political corruption, and a return to principles of collective good. Yet there are also specific and diverse struggles such as demands for direct democracy (as in France), the rejection of ethnic or sectarian identities (Iraq an...(展开全部)

In recent and ongoing uprisings all around the world, from Santiago to Hong Kong, many of the protesters' aims have been consistent: justice, an end to political corruption, and a return to principles of collective good. Yet there are also specific and diverse struggles such as demands for direct democracy (as in France), the rejection of ethnic or sectarian identities (Iraq an...(展开全部)

Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes. The book shows how a sequence of casual forces - social norms, focal points, rational calculation - operate to drive individuals into roles of passive resistance and, at a second stage, into participation in community-based reb...(展开全部)

肯尼斯•克拉克（Kenneth Clark，1903—1983），20世纪杰出的艺术史家、作家、策展人、纪录片主持人。二十七岁即任牛津大学阿什莫尔博物馆馆长，三十岁出任英国国家美术馆馆长，并在第二次世界大战期间，主持了战时艺术家计划，保障了艺术收藏品的安全。战争结束后，曾任牛津大学斯莱德教授。进入20世纪50年代，创作了多部艺术类电视纪录片并担当主持人。1969年，随着首部关于艺术的大型彩色电视纪录片《文明》的面世，成为享誉世界的艺术大师。2014年，英国泰特美术馆举办专题展览纪念肯尼斯•克拉克，称誉其为“具有世纪影响力的英国艺术大家”，并感谢他在“将艺术带给大众”事业上做出的杰出贡献。