May Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. How her friendships, her love of the natural world, and her growing audience of readers brought her back is this journal's story. "Sarton's 'art of making exquisite distinctions' and her vulnerability as a human being are he...(展开全部)

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the "New York Herald Tribune". This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A "Russian Journal" is the distil...(展开全部)

This lavish, illustrated journal describes Beatrix Potter’s life as a young woman in Victorian England as she struggles to achieve independence and to find artistic success and romantic love. Using witty, observant commentary taken from Beatrix’s own diaries, the journal features a wealth of watercolor paintings, sketches, photographs, letters and period memorabilia to recreate...(展开全部)

波恩哈德•鲁特泽尔，作家、记者，也是位广受青睐的时尚专家、高级定制专家，尤其是其作为经典男士时装的鉴赏家而广为人知。 他已经出版过数本时尚类图书，并定期为德国和国际时尚杂志供稿。由于他从事顾问工作时能够提供很专业的意见和判断，所以很受时尚界人士的敬重，而他更广为人知的是因其为电视台和电台的常客，现居于柏林。 波恩哈德•鲁特泽尔凭借对高端与尊贵的独特理解，对国际潮流的敏锐嗅觉，将绅士时尚的理念完美融入到《绅士》这本书中。以尊贵为名，创意先行，潮流且不失典雅尊贵的穿衣搭配方式，在业界趋之若鹜。

Every word of this book is true. A nurse in 1913 fell in love with a man called John Smith, except he was a visitor from another world. She fell in love with a man from the stars. And she wrote it all down.

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mot...(展开全部)

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mot...(展开全部)

This is the first book to concentrate less on Westwood as a personality than on the extraordinary and intricate clothes which have won her the respect of the international fashion community. It breaks new ground by presenting the views of Londoners who collect, wear and make her garments, as well as by exploring Westwood's genius for tailoring and witty manipulation of traditio...(展开全部)