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)

弗朗索瓦兹·巴尔伯·嘎尔，曾在索邦大学（Sorbonne）和卢浮宫学院（Ecole du Louvre）学习历史和艺术，随后在后者任教。与此同时，她还管理“如何欣赏画作协会（CORETA,Comment Regarder un Tableau, www.coreta.org）”，举行多场讲座。她定期参加管理专业的研讨会，分享她在图像分析、广告和市场营销方面的经验。公司日程出版社（Editions del’Agence de l’Empresa）出版了一本她的文章集锦——《目光》（La Mirada ）、（塞维利亚，2000年）。她还曾就雕塑家汤姆·卡尔（Tom Carr）撰写过多篇论文（《回声与汇聚》（Echos et convergences ），塞雷现代艺术博物馆（musée d’Art moderne de Céret），2002年《对照》（V...(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)

The Chinese way of appreciating a painting is often expressed by the words du hua," to read a painting." How does one do that? Because art is a visual lanuage, words alone cannot adequately convey its expressive dimension. How to read Chinese Paintings seeks to visually analyze thirty-six paintings and calligraphies from the encyclopedic collection of the Metripolitan Museum of...(展开全部)

What if you could have your own real dragon? While that might seem like just a fantasy, today cutting-edge science has brought us to the point where it might really be possible. This book looks into the possibilities of making living, fire-breathing dragons. The world has been fascinated with dragons for thousands of years. Fictional dragons still have a firm place in pop cultu...(展开全部)

Choosing ten symbols from the natural world (the sun, the shell, the bird) and ten man-made (the window, the book, the mirror), Françoise Barbe-Gall illuminates our understanding of how these have been used and developed in art from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, with sixty-eight wonderfully vivid examples. Painting has always made abundant use of forms and objects ...(展开全部)

The most widely-used textbook for the communication theory course, A First Look at Communication Theory analyzes the major communication theories at a level that is appropriate for both lower- and upper-level courses. The 32 theories represented in the text reflect a mix of foundational and recent scholarship and strike a balance of scientific and interpretive approaches.

Bestselling author and acclaimed nature illustrator Clare Walker Leslie invites beginning birdwatchers to hone their observational skills with this easy-to-use visual guide. Using her signature nature journal illustrations, Leslie shows readers the key clues to look for, from the shape of the beak or talons to distinctive feather colorings, flight patterns, and behavioral trait...(展开全部)

Bestselling author and acclaimed nature illustrator Clare Walker Leslie invites beginning birdwatchers to hone their observational skills with this easy-to-use visual guide. Using her signature nature journal illustrations, Leslie shows readers the key clues to look for, from the shape of the beak or talons to distinctive feather colorings, flight patterns, and behavioral trait...(展开全部)