杨腓力（Philip Yancey） 美国当代作家、编辑。三十多年来，凭借纯熟的文字和过人的洞察力，诚恳深入地探讨信仰和生活中的艰难和困惑，影响了超过1500万读者。他的作品曾12次获得美国ECPA年度图书金奖，并被翻译成25种文字，流传到世界各国。代表作有《无语问上帝》、《有话问苍天》、《恩典多奇异》等。杨腓力是Christianity Today杂志的主编。 保罗•班德（Paul Brand,1914-2003） 世界著名的手部外科医生和痳风病专家，他在印度投身痳风病的治疗和康复工作达十八年之久，赢得无数奖项和荣誉，其中包括素负盛名的阿伯特•拉斯卡奖、美国达米恩-杜顿痳风奖，并受英国伊丽莎白女王封为爵士。随后在担任路易斯安那州卡维尔痳疯中心的康复主任时，获得美国公共卫生部杰出服务奖。晚年半退休的他，曾任华盛顿大学骨科系退休名誉临床教授，以及世界卫...(展开全部)

First impressions count. As that first perception is the most important one in real life, in the competitive world of commerce it has the potential to make or break a brand. Visual identity turns the idea, concept and attitude of brands into visceral visual surroundings that act as primary cues that communicate with the intended audience and consumers — from logos to the manufa...(展开全部)

Aimed at professionals and beginners alike: the first systematic attempt to find out how photographers of world stature approach their work, and what it is that makes them succeed. This essential new guide to photography draws upon in-depth interviews with established photographers from the fields of fashion, art, portraiture, documentary photography, and advertising as well ...(展开全部)

Aby Warburg (1866-1929) is best known as the originator of the discipline of iconology and as the founder of the institute that bears his name. His followers included such celebrated art historians of the twentieth century as Erwin Panofsky, Edgar Wind, and Fritz Saxl. But his heirs developed, for the most part, a domesticated iconology based on the interpretation of symbolic m...(展开全部)

Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unr...(展开全部)

Aby Warburg (1866-1929) is best known as the originator of the discipline of iconology and as the founder of the institute that bears his name. His followers included such celebrated art historians of the twentieth century as Erwin Panofsky, Edgar Wind, and Fritz Saxl. But his heirs developed, for the most part, a domesticated iconology based on the interpretation of symbolic m...(展开全部)

Most eight-year-olds are about five times as tall as this book . . . but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall as a giraffe . . . twenty times smaller than a California Redwood! How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. Everest? To stars, galaxy clusters, and . . . the universe?

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Snow Image is a story for children first published in 1851. It tells the story of a brother and a sister named Peony and Violet who go out one afternoon of a cold winter's da