Which of us, when finding ourselves in the presence of a painting, has not sensed that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced understanding of the way viewers respond to paintings with a rich knowledge of their context and circumstances of their creation. The re...(展开全部)

Looking at pictures can be enjoyable, exciting or moving. Some pictures are easily appreciated at first glance, but others - often the most rewarding - require some explanation before they can be fully understood. This clearly written and enjoyable book is intended both to increase pleasure and stimulate thought and tackles many aspects of looking at paintings. Starting with fa...(展开全部)

安·霍纳迪（Ann Hornaday），《华盛顿邮报》首席电影评论家，2008年荣获普利策新闻奖 “最佳评论人”提名。曾是著名女权主义者格洛丽亚·斯泰纳姆（自传《在路上：我生活的故事》2017年在国内出版）的助理。从业三十多年以来，采访过李安、马丁·斯科塞斯、史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格、加里·奥德曼、卡西·阿弗莱克、蒂尔达·温斯顿等众多影视界知名人士，本书的撰写得到包括他们在内的32位奥斯卡奖得主的帮助和支持。亚马逊读者评价她是“继罗杰·伊伯特之后可相信、跟随”的影评人。

Rarely has anyone photographed reality in such an unprettified way as Boris Mikhailov. He captures the unadorned and the natural; in pictures devoid of aesthetic exhaltation, he concentrates on people and their living conditions. On his journeys through Russia, Germany, and his Ukrainian homeland, Mikhailov has equally observed the poor, the well-to-do, the outcasts, and the ho...(展开全部)

This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can understand, though for thousands of years this was not the case. Today,...(展开全部)

John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle. Throughout history, some books have changed the worl...(展开全部)

If you would like to become a truly great trader --either for yourself or for a proprietary trading firm, this book will help you get there. It is the only book of its kind, based on one of most successful trader training programmes--and the closest thing to signing up for a "trader boot camp". You can watch new traders execute trades and then learn by following their expert in...(展开全部)

伊恩·M.班克斯Iain M.Banks （1954—2013） 英国著名作家，威士忌爱好者，生于苏格兰，曾就读于斯特林大学，主修英语文学、哲学和心理学。他以伊恩·班克斯为笔名创作纯文学作品，以伊恩·M.班克斯为笔名创作科幻小说。 一九八四年，班克斯以处女作《捕蜂器》一举成名。一九八七年起，他涉足科幻小说领域，创作了一系列以“文明”为背景的太空乌托邦作品，好评如潮，一度揽获两届英国科幻小说协会奖，获得包括轨迹奖在内的近二十项科幻大奖提名。《卫报》称其作品为“科幻小说评判的标杆”；赛博朋克大师威廉·吉布森盛赞他为科幻小说界的“不可多得的奇才”；《时代》周刊更是称其为“英国同时代作家中最有想像力的小说家”。 二〇〇八年，《泰晤士报》将班克斯评为一九四五年后英国最优秀的五十位作家之一。 二〇一三年六月，班克斯罹患癌症不幸去世，享年五十九岁。

The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds and biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion -- gigadeathcrimes. But the war ended, and life went on. Now, eight hundred...(展开全部)