Of one-and-a-half-million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance.Av...(展开全部)

Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity. Lacan went against the current of many of the hopes aroused by 1968, but embrac...(展开全部)

Required reading for anyone interested in how style and the power of image dominate every aspect of our lives. A special millennium edition of the 1988 classic with a compelling new forward by the author. When All Consuming Images first appeared ten years ago, it quickly established itself as a classic in the field of American visual culture, with its textured histor...(展开全部)

In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compas...(展开全部)

首届“中国好书”奖得主，第11届华语文学传媒大奖得主梁鸿的全新长篇小说力作。 基督长老，留洋武官，IT精英，熟知所有植物的女孩……四个人物，四种面貌，他们生平经历密切交织，串联起一个村庄漫长而曲折 的故事。他们携带梁庄的秘密而来，迫切热烈激情跌宕，他们通晓人类的智慧与全部渴望，愿景在梁庄的现实建立起一个理想国，不料分歧早已悄然埋下…… 一段不同寻常的精神之旅，跨越一甲子的风云舒卷。现实，历史，自然，灵魂多声部交织，于颠倒之世界，唤醒空心的现代人。 “活着与死去，地上与地下，历史与现在…… 他们仍然是我们的一部分。他们的故事还在延 续， 他们的声音还在某一生命内部回响。”

尼尔马拉·纳塔瑞杰（Nirmala Nataraj）： 科普作家、编辑，尤其擅长宇宙学、生态学和分子生物学题材，对视觉和表演艺术颇感兴趣。生活在纽约。著有畅销书《地球与太空》。 美国国家航空航天局（National Aeronautics and Space Administration）： 简称NASA，是美国联邦政府的一个行政性科研机构，负责制定、实施美国的民用太空计划于开展航空科学暨太空科学的研究。NASA一直致力于探索浩瀚星空中人类的未知领域，如今已是地球上最权威的航天局，与许多美国国内及国际上的科研机构分享其研究数据。从人类第1次登月、地球2.0的发现，再到发现冥王星上的“心形”冰山区域，NASA承载着亿万人类探索宇宙的梦想与希望，经历过无数次失败后的打击和成功后的喜极而泣，仍然不惜一切代价，为人类的探索梦想投入的资本、最权威尖端的技术，只...(展开全部)

As the world’s largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues. Here, noted journalist and former Financial Times South Asia bureau chief Edward Luce travels throughout India’s ...(展开全部)

Contents: 1.Global and Medieval: India's schizophrenic economy 2.The Burra Sahibs: The long tentacles of India's state 3.Battles of the Righteous:The rise of India's lower Castes 4.The Imaginary Horse: The continuing threat of Hindu Nationalism 5.Long live the Sycophants!: the Congress Party's continuing love affair with the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty 6.Many Crescents:South Asia's di...(展开全部)

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror t...(展开全部)

Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar